According to her record company, the 19-year-old soprano can sing beyond the range of human hearing, hitting notes that can be heard only by animals. But, unlike the people who have bought more than three million of her albums, the animals appear to be less than impressed.
A border terrier called Iggy Pup was the first to react when Westenra went into the studio to make her latest album and began to explore how high she could sing with some vocal gymnastics.
The dog, owned by Steve Abbott, the singer’s manager, is no stranger to music and has never reacted to the sounds made by any other of Universal’s top names, who include Katherine Jenkins and Angela Gheorghiu. He has always waited patiently in the studio until his master’s voice signals that it was time to go home.
This time, however, Iggy was transformed into something wild, as Westenra’s vocals soared. “He was going berserk,” she said yesterday. “He was picking up on something.” Mr Abbott said: “The house is full of music and he comes to the studio. It’s never bothered him before. He rarely barks, but he was yelping away. I had to take the dog out.” Mark Wilkinson, of Universal, said: “The dog was reacting to something people in the rest of the studio could not hear.”
If you've not heard Hayley sing, here she is singing Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights'.
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