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Joanna Forbes L’Estrange (b. 1971)

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is an international singer, songwriter, choral composer and choral leader based in London. Having graduated in Music from Oxford University, she began composing and arranging as soprano/Musical Director of the five-time Grammy® Award-winning a cappella group The Swingles. Described as ‘melodious, uplifting and accessible’, her compositions are influenced by close harmony vocal groups and jazz. Her sacred repertoire includes anthems, carols and settings of the Mass, Preces & Responses and Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis. She receives commissions for original songs from groups including The King’s Singers, The Military Wives Choirs, Finchley Children’s Music Group and the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain who made a film of her acclaimed song A woman (wearing bloomers) on a wheel. Joanna has established a fine reputation for composing songs about women and gender equality and her charity single Twenty-first-century Woman raises money for girls’ education. (Joanna Forbes L’Estrange)