A Crickhowell High School pupil has made the final six in a competition to find the Welsh entry to Junior Eurovision.

Gracie-Jayne Fitzgerald will be competing in the live final in Llandudno at 6.30pm on Tuesday, October 9 which will be aired on S4C.

The Welsh TV channel showed Gracie-Jayne being chosen for the final six last Tuesday as she performed ‘You’re My World’ by Cilla Black.

The 11-year-old, who takes inspiration from older singers like Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield, applied for the competition in May before she was chosen to audition in June. The young singer lives with her parents Julia and Ben Fitzgerald and her little sister, seven-year-old Anya, in Brynmawr.

Proud mum Julia said: “She is excited and she is also very laid back. I don’t think she’s nervous, but she loves performing and she never appears to suffer from nerves.

“We’ll all be going with her, me and her dad and her little sister.”

The Year 7 star, who is aspiring to be a West End singer as well as a drama and music teacher, has said she is “excited”.

Julia said Gracie-Jayne’s primary school friends had been “very excited” for her and that it has caused a stir with her new classmates at Crickhowell High School.

She said: “She’s had singing lessons from Katy Treharne who is based in Blaina but she works in the West End. She teaches people but she has also played Christine in the Phantom of the Opera a few times.”

Julia also said that Gracie-Jayne had been singing in front of other people since April last year.

While the UK has entered in previous years, this year is the first time Wales has entered the Junior Eurovision competition which features around 20 countries.

The competition started on Tuesday, September 18 this year following the application process in October last year.

The finals are due to take place in the Belarus capital Minsk on Sunday, November 25.