Teenager Eleanor Williams is following in the footsteps of her grandmother, who was a talented opera singer.

Eleanor, 13, from Uffington, has entered the Swindon Talent 2010 competition this summer with a song originally performed by Camilla Kerslake and Gary Barlow called How Can I Keep From Singing.

Her favourite band are Take That but she is studying classical music at school.

“My favourite piece of music is Ave Maria,’’ she said.

The Highworth Warneford School pupil has previously won a talent competition in Highworth, the prize for which is to make a CD with David Seaton Music & Associates.

She said: “I will give 10 copies to my family and then charge £4 for the others, £2 for David and £2 for me. I will sell them at school.”

Eleanor has been singing since she was nine and takes classes with her tutor in Shrivenham.

She can play the piano, has reached Grade 4 in singing and is planning to take her GCSE in music and go on to make music her career.

Her twin sister, Charlotte, is like her mum Lisa, more into horses but little sister Isabelle sings around the house.

Eleanor’s grandmother, the late Dorothy Gomersall, was thwarted in her desire to become a professional opera singer as her family made sure she joined the army instead.

Lisa said: “My mother lived in Newcastle. She didn’t have the chance to sing in any of the big shows, it was just local clubs because the family did not agree with her doing that sort of thing for a living.”