Kirsten Morrell is a British-born New Zealand singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the band Goldenhorse. Morrell is a trained operatic singer and performed as a national singer in the New Zealand Opera for two years. In the early 2000s, she found success fronting the pop group Goldenhorse, which debuted in 2002 with the chart topping album Riverhead. The band found continued success with the 2005 release of Out of the Moon, which also went platinum. In 2007 the band released their final album, Reporter, before entering a long hiatus. Morrell recorded her first album as a solo artist with the 2010 release of Ultraviolet, and returned to London to join the Crouch End Festival Chorus. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Morrell began writing new solo material and returned to New Zealand, where she formed KMR Records, an independent label. In 2026, she released her second solo album, Morrellium. Morrell has been an active spokesperson for equitable trade and environmental causes, including as an ambassador for Greenpeace, and backing campaigns by Fairtrade. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)