Move over Spice Girls. There's a new pop singer in town. Meet Pesha, Ginger Spice for the golden set.

She's hardly your average aspiring pop star sporting bare midriffs and low-rider jeans. The 60-year-old singer-songwriter from Blackpool, England, spends her days with law books and nights holed up in her kitchen studio. She recently relinquished top billing at a local law firm she founded to devote more time to her fledgling musical career.

Pesha hasn't always aspired to be the next Celine Dion or Mel C. It wasn't until December, 2000, when Queen Elizabeth dared citizens to make a difference in others' lives that Pesha's creative juices began to flow.

Pesha says she felt her voice was restricted to the confines of family court, her area of expertise as a lawyer, and desired to "touch the world" in new ways.

A multi-instrumentalist versed in piano, violin, guitar, clarinet, accordion, piccolo, recorder and tin whistle, Pesha took her first voice lesson at 40. For years, she wrote lyrics to church hymns but she only started writing music to go with them in the last few years.

"It is amazing how a phrase takes root in your brain," Pesha wrote in an email message to a Courttv.com reporter. "It would keep going round and round in my head. It was then I realized that I ought to be using my singing voice and my ability to write words in the secular realm … I have heard music in my head most of my life but I have never been able to convert the sounds through my fingers into music."

Once inspiration took hold of her, the tunes started to flow effortlessly, she says. "I would just be passing the keyboard (in the kitchen) and suddenly a tune would come. I would usually put it onto record the first time of playing. It was as though it was the moment in my life for a time capsule to explode," she wrote.

Her first single, "Contact Day," available through her Web site grapples with the "heartbreak and difficulties" of divorce through a child's viewpoint. All net proceeds are slated to go to the children's charity, Save the Children.

"I wanted the world to look at this problem from the children's perspective," she notes. "The children win because they will realize that their viewpoint is vital. The children win because the words of my songs are highly moral and the children win in that the net proceeds of the first single and album are going to alleviate children's suffering through a children's charity."

As she felt inspired by Queen Elizabeth's words, Pesha's hopeful others will be motivated to share "their stories of philanthropy and selfless acts and marvelous achievements."

Though she admits to slow sales of her single at the moment, she estimates her site has racked up 2,000 visits and calls of interest have started to come in. Her debut CD, "Make a Difference," is slated for release later this year.

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