TEENAGER Lauren Hartley has an anxious three-month wait to find out if her voice will get her on to primetime television.

Lauren has auditioned for television’s biggest talent competition, Britain’s Got Talent, which goes on air on Saturday nights in the spring.

The Clacton County High School student, who has amazed her family in the last year with a new-found classical singing voice, travelled to Earls Court in London to audition last month.

Her mum Clare, who runs the Bepop Stage Performers, said her daughter had always enjoyed singing, but it was not until she had the Hayley Westerna CD last Christmas that anyone realised she could sing classically.

“She came into one of the school’s singing lessons and asked to sing one of the tracks she had learned,” she said.

“We were all gobsmacked – her voice just seemed to come out of nowhere. We just didn’t know she could sing like that.”

Since then Lauren has continued singing light classical music and went into a recording studio in the summer.

She also appeared at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End on Sunday where she sang a solo, May It Be.

For her audition piece Lauren, of Burrs Road, Clacton, sang Pie Jesu.

“She had a brilliant time. Things have happened all so quickly,” her mum said.

Lauren will not hear if she has made it through until March, but in the meantime she will keep up her singing and dancing at the Bebop Stage Performers in Clacton.