BURY teenage soprano Soraya Mafi has performed in front of her biggest audience yet - 90,000 football fans and millions of TV viewers!
The 18-year-old former Bury Grammar pupil became the first singer to perform at the new Wembley Stadium when she sang the English and Brazilian national anthems before last Friday's friendly international.
Soraya, who also studied at Holy Cross College, is now in her first year as a student at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
She said: "I've performed in front of big crowds before but this was different because it was on a national scale and I knew it was going out live on the BBC.
"When I got out there to sing I wasn't really nervous. The place was so big that the crowd all blurred into one and I couldn't really see how many were there."
Soraya says she has barely had time to marvel at her own rapid success. She works at Selfridges and teaches a choir as well as pursuing her own studies.
"I suppose I've always been very ambitious but I never dreamt I would be singing at Wembley."
