Mary Hammond

Mary Hammond is an English singer, actress, voice coach and Head of Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.

Having trained in both voice and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, Hammond has been teaching and performing in the field of musical theatre for over twenty five years.

In 1994, Hammond was a founder of the Royal Academy of Music's Musical Theatre Course, and has been Head of Musical Theatre since then.

She appeared in Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, performing in sketches such as "Shopping" and "At the Chippy".

She was one of the members of the United Kingdom jury at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, and made a rather controversial decision to rank Spain, who eventually ended last due to an unfortunate voice crack, in 2nd place. However, this didn't affect the results as Spain scored 0 jury points altogether.

"Royal Academy of Music Brochure". Archived from the original on 2007-06-24. 

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