page_title: Rebecca Newman
section_title: Charity
hierarchical_section_title: Rebecca Newman / Charity
caption_attribution_description: English: With lifeboatmen after the Weston-super-Mare concert
context_page_description: Rebecca Newman is an English soprano singer and songwriter. She came to prominence in the UK music scene in September 2014 when her debut chart album Dare to Dream went to number 1 in the Official UK Classical Artists Album Chart.
  Dubbed 'The People's Soprano' by her fans, colleagues and the media, and following several years as an operatic street performer, she has sung with Aled Jones, Russell Watson, Alfie Boe, and Blake, and appeared on UK national television and radio.
context_section_description: Newman has worked extensively with charities including directly fundraising for ChildLine and for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, whose Coast to Coast tour in 2012 earned her the RNLI Award for Outstanding Achievement. She has recently become the patron for Socks and Chocs, a West Midlands based homeless outreach charity.
  She has performed for fundraising events for many charities and community organisations, including The Royal British Legion. and Tumaini Jipya. In June 2017 she joined Joseph Calleja in a gala charity evening at the Victoria and Albert Museum in support of the Inle Trust.
caption: Rebecca with RNLI lifeboatmen
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