Carol is the founder of Black Voices, the UK’s foremost female a cappella quintet. Like many of the singers she looks up to, her first musical experiences were nurtured in the black church where her father was a minister. Carol plays a variety of wind instruments but admits it’s the beauty and range of the unaccompanied voice that moves her most.

With Black Voices, she has performed on every continent in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls in front of Royalty, Presidents, opening for musical icons and performing many specially commissioned works.

Carol is an accomplished choral director and has led the popular Gospel Choir course at Dartington International Summer School for over 20 years. She also leads a wide range of choral workshops, summer schools and courses internationally. For BBC Radio 2 she presented a series on Natural Voice and later, Gospel Train after Gloria Gaynor. Carol was a judge on the inaugural Sky 1 series, Ultimate A cappella.It is for her services to music that she was awarded an MBE (2014) and subsequently a Mixed Blessing Award (2015) for outstanding leadership.