SHE became one of the biggest pop stars of the Nineties after her 1993 debut single Dreams topped the chart, but after the hits dried up in the Noughties Gabrielle virtually vanished from the music scene.
Hampered by self doubt — partly as a result of having to cover her lazy eye with her hair or an eye patch — by 2009 she had stepped back from music for a more conventional life raising her two children.
Now 51, Gabrielle is ready to rekindle her pop career after reaching the semi-finals of ITV’s The Masked Singer with a string of performances based solely on her sensational voice, not her looks — which were hidden behind her stifling Harlequin disguise.
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