Shooting to fame in the 2012 season of Britain's Got Talent, singer Charlotte Jaconelli recorded two U.K. Top Five albums as half of the duo Jonathan & Charlotte before she and singing partner Jonathan Antoine went their separate ways and launched solo careers. Born on August 24, 1995 in Chigwell, Essex, she developed a love for singing after being enrolled in stage school classes by her mother at the age of four. Jaconelli was paired with Antoine by her high school singing teacher. When the duo auditioned for Britain's Got Talent, she was studying musical theater at the Arts Educational Schools in London, while he was training as a classical singer at the Royal Academy.