Hot shots 2004: Shonagh Daly

Although relatively unknown on this side of the nuclear dumping ground known as the Irish Sea, the 23-year-old has already enjoyed UK success courtesy of her role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit West End musical, The Beautiful Game.

Indeed, so rave were her reviews that Daly was invited by Mayor Rudolf Guiliani to play at the Ground Zero memorial concert in New York.

Part of the same London management stable as Geri Halliwell, Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Angie Stone, her debut album is due in March and is being mooted by record company sources as “a cross between Shania Twain, Barbara Streisand and Beyoncé.”

With BBC Radio 2 already playing her ‘All I Want’ single off the air, chart success seems inevitable