Article: Success won't be so sweet if I don't find dad; MERCURY RISING: She's in line for one of music's most prestigious prizes but Jackie Joyce has a secret heartache.(Features)

BEHIND her smouldering look and velvet voice, singer Jackie Joyce nurses a heartache - she has never met her real father.

The largely unknown Scots songbird is on track to win a Mercury Award - one of Britain's most prestigious music prizes.

But the 31-year-old, known as Helicopter Girl, would give up the chance of fame and fortune to come face to face with the dad she has never seen.

Godfrey Opoku was an Ghanaian pilot training in Scotland when he became involved with Jackie's Scots mother, Margaret.

After completing his training at ...

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