Talent and modelling agency Talent Management has always booked models and talent alongside each other and it seems that their approach is currently being reflected by other modelling agencies around the world.

Singers Solange Knowles and Lana del Ray are just two of many musicians-turned-models that model booking agents at Talent Management have seen get signed this month. Other models with talents that you may be familiar with include musicians Ellie Golding and Myleene Klass, and presenters Amanda Brunker and Tess Daly.

It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that many models have talents that cross over into other areas of entertainment. The same is often true for actors or singers. The fact is, as much as the media seems to enjoy digging at creative people who change their career focus – from, for example, acting to singing or modelling to presenting – this tendency really makes perfect sense.

Many actors will have been to stage schools where they were trained not only in acting skills but also in presenting, dancing and singing. The personality that suits a life in the public eye – somebody who has confidence and that ‘star’ quality that you just can’t quite put your finger on – could quite possibly make it as any number of different talents.

Who knew that Kylie Minogue had such an amazing singing voice and live stage presence when she first appeared as Charlene in Neighbours? How could we have guessed that actress Nicole Kidman would impress Robbie Williams so much with her singing voice in ‘Moulin Rouge’ that he would successfully approach her to work with him on Sinatra tribute track ‘Something Stupid’? Williams told the BBC at the time: “I heard her sing in Moulin Rouge and I asked if she would be interested. I fully expected to be knocked back – she is a proper Hollywood star but she said yes – I was amazed and thrilled.”

There are also many acting skills employed in the job of a model, whether photographic or catwalk based, and modelling agencies are very much aware of the advantage that basic acting skills can be to a potential model.

Talent management understand that for those who have a desire to become a model, additional skills often raise your chances of getting a booking and finding a way into the industry that you are passionate about.

Do you think actors, presenters and musicians who model should be treated with less credibility than those who focus in just one area? Or do you agree with booking agents at Talent Management who believe that model bookings should be based purely on how talented the individual is at the particular role?