Charlotte Maria Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed, 21 February 1986) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress, and television presenter from Cardiff. As a child, Church was a popular classical singer; as a young woman, she made a less successful move into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than ten million records worldwide including over five million in the United States. She hosted a Channel 4 comedy chat show, The Charlotte Church Show. Church released her first album in five years, Back to Scratch, on 25 October 2010. Church is a soprano. Church has embraced political activism, supporting Jeremy Corbyn when he led the Labour Party, Plaid Cymru in the Senedd elections, and the cause of Welsh independence.