Aled Jones

Singer, actor, author, radio, TV presenter and part-time dancer - loved by the nation originally for his pure treble voice. Aled recently celebrated over 25 years as a household name and his career is going from strength to strength.  Aled has been a regular on Songs of Praise for over 10 years and is also the youngest presenter to appear on the show.

After studying at the Royal Academy of Music and Bristol's Old Vic Theatre School, Aled has played Joseph in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat.'  In 2008 he performed as Caractacus Potts in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' at the Welsh Millenium Centre and played the lead role in Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' in Plymouth and Manchester which he returns to later in 2011 in Southampton, Dublin and Liverpool.

Aled has his own radio show on BBC Radio 2 every Sunday morning from 6-9am called 'Good Morning Sunday with Aled Jones'.  He also presents BBC Radio 3's 'The Choir' as well as having his own chat show on BBC Radio Wales.  

Aled currently has 28 albums to his name - selling over 6 million to date.  Aled's latest album 'Forever'  was released in September 2011 and he also toured the UK in September/October 2011.

He has also been busy filming 'Escape to the Country' and 'Cash in the Attic' for the BBC and performing and presenting at one-off shows around the UK and in Australia.  He has been filming all over Europe for 'Classical Destination'  a series about famous composers.

Aled also released a book on his favourite carols called 'Favourite Christmas Carols' in 2010 as a follow-up to 'Aled's Favourite 40 Hymns' that was released in 2009.

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