Katherine Jenkins has expressed fears for her daughter growing up away from the singer’s home country of Wales.
The mezzo-soprano wants her daughter Aaliyah to have a Welsh accent but lives with her musician mother who spends time in England, Wales and America.
Speaking during an upcoming appearance on this weekend’s Jonathan Ross Show, Katherine said: “My daughter’s nearly six months, little Aaliyah, she’s amazing, I’m totally besotted.
“I worry about it all the time because I am very proud of my Welsh accent and I would love her to have a Welsh accent but I wonder if she’s going to end up somewhere in the middle.
“I wonder if she’s going to have a sort of transatlantic, messed up accent which I don’t want her to have but it might happen.
“I moved to England when I was 16 because I was studying at the Royal Academy of Music. I had to adapt my accent because I felt like no one ever understood me.
“I think naturally it becomes a little more English when I am in London but as soon as I speak to my mum on the phone or go back to Neath it inevitably comes back full Welsh and very fast.”
Katherine and husband Andrew Levitas welcomed their little baby to the world in September last year.
She announced the news by posting a picture of the tot’s tiny hand and foot on Instagram.
Introducing our daughter Aaliyah Reign Levitas, who came loudly into the world weighing almost 7lbs and surrounded by love. We are absolutely besotted with her & grateful for the beautiful blessing of this happy, healthy, little miracle. Cwtches all round 💗 @AndrewLevitas A photo posted by Katherine Jenkins (@realkathjenkins) on Sep 30, 2015 at 8:06am PDT
She captioned the images: “Introducing our daughter Aaliyah Reign Levitas, who came loudly into the world weighing almost 7lbs and surrounded by love.
“We are absolutely besotted with her & grateful for the beautiful blessing of this happy, healthy, little miracle.
“Cwtches [cuddles] all round!”
Meanwhile, Katherine is distracting herself from her worries about her daughter’s accent by learning a new language to help with her singing.
She said: “For classical music you have to sing in different languages but recently I learnt to sing in Mandarin.
“I was going over to do a concert and they asked me if I would learn this iconic song, a modern pop song from China.
“So I got a coach, Welsh is a really difficult language but Mandarin is up there too.
“I learnt it phonetically. I think it’s always good when you’re in different countries to learn introductions to the concert, but I don’t go much further than that.”
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