Carrie Grant (born Caroline Vanessa Gray, 17 August 1965) is a British vocal coach, television presenter and session singer. She is best known for her work on the television talent contests Fame Academy, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and Pop Idol, together with her husband and colleague David Grant. She is also personal voice coach to many successful pop stars. She first came to fame as a singer in her own right with the pop group Sweet Dreams in 1983, when they represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest that year with the song I'm Never Giving Up.
Since 2010 she has been a regular reporter on BBC One's magazine programme The One Show.
In 2012, she appeared on the ITV documentary, The Talent Show Story where she spoke about her time as a judge and coach. Other talent show judges interviewed included Simon Cowell, Dannii Minogue, Kelly Rowland, Neil Fox, Nicky Chapman, Amanda Holden, Gary Barlow, Piers Morgan, Pete Waterman, Tulisa Contostavlos and Louis Walsh.
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“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American scholar and educator. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (July 27, 1994)