My daughter Francesca Berlin's debut single is to be released on 26th June 2006 by Moon Records UK.
Francesca has written a song about Eva Cassidy. Francesca's local fan base should hopefully ensure the song gets in the national charts in week one. There has already been a lot of local publicity about Francesca.

Please see
www.moonrecords.co.uk

Francesca's web site is
www.francescaberlin.co.uk

Interesting comments about Francesca's name.

To start with Francesca is using her real name. Her friends call her Francesca or Frankee.

We have thought about what name to use and someone mentioned Irving Berlin.

My grandfather was born in a village in Russia which was very close to where Irving Berlin was born. If you look at a photo of Irving Berlin and my grandfather they look very similar. My father did some research (when he was alive) and so have I and it seems we are distantly related. Our local newspaper has run this story a few times when they have done articles on Francesca. They picked up on this before Francesca started to sing. The story started when Francesca won a junior chess tournament at the age of 5. She gave up up 12 to concentrate on music and dancing after winning the British Girls Chess Championships in 2000 (actually joint winner).

Anyhow, as Berlin is a famous name we feel its best to stick with Francesca's real name.

And why not, sounds good to me.

MS

Someone once said life is to short for chess, what was her top BCF grade ?
Regards the name, one poster pointed out that Ivring Berlin would not be well known among pop fans, and it doesn't sound right somehow.

mickey,

Any bands we might have heard of?

aldwickk

Great quote!

She was about 1200 Elo at the age of 6. I think she only got to about 1550 at 11.

Regards
Howard

aldwickk

There is a pop singer with the name of Frankee so that was not considered a good idea.

The decision on name was decided by Francesca. There also was a band with the name Berlin.