Leading UK Gospel Singer Lurine Cato Receives MBE In Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Lurine Cato, one of the UK’s leading Gospel Singers has been listed in this years Queen’s Birthday Honours List to receive an MBE for services to charity and music.
Throughout Lurine Cato’s music career she has championed numerous charities and causes including: Diana Award, Gangsline, The Safety Box, The Children’s Society, Demelza Hospice Care of Children, to name a few. During the Covid national lockdown this summer, Lurine brought to light the work of the Cavell Nurses Trust by drawing together gospel artists across the UK to sing Amazing Grace and raising funds for their charity.
She is mostly known for her collaboration with the NHS Blood & Transplant Service to encourage the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities to give blood. As lead vocalist of the NHS B Positive Choir, Lurine Cato reached the final of Britain’s Got Talent in 2018.
More importantly, many people across the UK signed up to NHS to ‘Give Blood’ as a result of Lurine and the choir’s appearance on BGT - the choir consequently went on to perform in Europe and the USA.
Lurine has sung in prisons with Love Light Ministries and The Safety Box as well as internationally to sell-out concerts most notably in South Africa and across Europe. As a prolific singer-songwriter with an amazing five-octave range, Lurine has sung at Westminster Abbey before the Queen, Lambeth Palace and York Cathedral. Winning multi-awards including a MOBO in 2013 and nominated again in 2017 for Best Gospel Act and Premier Gospel Awards and recently in 2020 she was awarded the International Women's Day Mayor's Award.
Lurine expresses her gratitude, “It’s not about how many views, streams or followers you have but it’s about expressing God’s love and unity. It’s truly a honour to be a recipient of an award of this magnitude”.
Lurine shares this year of MBE awards with the likes of premiership footballer Marcus Rashford, Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator, Derrick Evans as well as friends and professional colleagues PR and Journalist, Marcia Dixon and Publisher and Editor of Keep The Faith Magazine, Shirley McGreal, Karen Gibson, leader of Kingdom Choir and gospel artist and entrepreneur, Muyiwa who receives an OBE, and IDMC choir leader, John Fisher, an BME. Tessy Ojo CEO of Diana Award received a CBE.
