Tony replies:

>It's debatable if she is even doing that. She is in the UK tabloid
>newspapers (not that I read them, of course) a couple of times each
>week photographed coming out of various nightclubs, sometimes sober and
>sometimes not. The angle of "fallen angel" is a gift to the newspapers
>especially now that at 18 she has access to all the loot she made when
>a child. The voice must have been degraded by her heavy cigarette habit.
>Hayley Westenra has rather taken her crown and, it has to be said, is a
>much better singer than CC ever was if you like that kind of thing.

I don't really like either of them.  A few weeks ago, here in the US,
there was a special starring Hayley.  Of course, there were commericals
a week or so before the broadcast.  Her singing in the promos was a
little difficult for me to take.  My wife would urgently ask me to change
the channel.  Regardless of what I think of her singing, I think it's a
shame that Charlotte is going the way Tony says she is.  Hopefully,
she'll get on track.

Ron Chaplin
Iselin, NJ, USA