Sarah Brightman : Family, Net Worth, Parents, Husband, Children and Career

Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and musician.Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 1981, she made her West End musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she later married. She went on to star in several West End and Broadway musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, where she originated the role of Christine Daaé. Her original London cast album of Phantom was released in CD format in 1987 and sold 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling cast album ever.

Brightman is the eldest of six children of businessman Grenville Geoffrey Brightman and Paula Brightman, née Hall.Her younger siblings are Nicola, Claudia, Jay, Joel, and Amelia . She was brought up in Little Gaddesden near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England.At the age of three she began taking dance and piano classes. She then went on to perform in local festivals and competitions.[24] At age 11, she successfully auditioned for the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, a school specialising in performing arts.She received her education at Elmhurst Ballet School, Birmingham, the Arts Educational School in Chiswick, West London,and the Royal College of Music.In 1973, at the age of 13, Brightman made her theatrical debut in the musical I and Albert at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, playing one of Queen Victoria’s daughters

At age 18, in 1979, Brightman married Andrew Graham-Stewart, who at that time managed the German band Tangerine Dream.She later met Andrew Lloyd Webber when she performed in Cats. In 1983, Brightman divorced Graham-Stewart and later that same year, Lloyd Webber divorced his first wife, Sarah Hugill, with whom he had two children.Lloyd Webber and Brightman married on 22 March 1984 and their relationship quickly became the subject of intense media and tabloid scrutiny until their divorce in 1990.Brightman had a 10-year relationship with Frank Peterson, during which they tried and were unsuccessful in having children. In an interview with British magazine Hello!, she said motherhood would have been “lovely” but accepted that she would never have a child.

Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and musician has an estimated Net Worth around $60 Million in 2021.

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In 1981, Sarah auditioned for composer Andrew Webber’s musical Cats for the role of Jemima. A year later, she played the role of Tara Treetops in the play Masquerade and appeared in the title role of Charles Strouse’s Nightingale.In 1984, she appeared in Andrew Webber’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera, Song and Dance, and Mass Requiem’.

From 1985 to 1990, she worked in numerous albums including The Trees They Grow So High, The Songs That Got Away, and As I Came of Age .After 1990, Sarah embarked on her solo career and in 1992 she made an appearance in Barcelona Olympic Games with the theme song, Amigos Para Siempre.

In 1997, her international hit, Time to Say Goodbye was released which earned her The Guinness World Record for best-selling German single.In 2000, she made an appearance in the German feature film, Zeit der Erkenntnis. By the end of 2000, she had a sales record of more than Rolling Stones and Elton John, making her America’s top-touring and highest-selling British artist.

The Billboard Magazine announced her as most successful crossover artist in UK in 2001.Later, from 2006 to 2008, she made appearances in various other singles and duets including All I Ask of You, Running, Snowbird, Abide With Me. Her single Symphony, released in 2008, became the highest ranked single on Billboard’s Charts.
From 2009 to 2010, her popularity was all-time high in the Asian markets. Around the same time she acquired American citizenship.