A TALENTED teenager who wanted to brighten up the lives of everyone around her with her love of music has lost her fight for life.

Georgina Anderson died today (Thursday, November 14) - just four months after being diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive form of liver cancer.

The 15-year-old, of Marske, east Cleveland, refused to let her illness dampen her creative spirit and posted videos of her singing on YouTube. One of her dreams was to release her own music to raise money for charity.

She gathered international support with her cover version of Bonnie Raitt’s I Can’t Make You Love Me, which has attracted more than 150,000 hits.

A Twitter campaign to designed to spread her message was picked up by local X-Factor star James Arthur, who phoned her and sent her flower. Cheryl Cole also lent her support.

Last weekend, Middlesbrough FC made her guest of honour and she was presented to fans on the pitch before the game against Watford. Her song Two Thirds of a Piece was played before the game and again at half-time.

The Bydales School pupil leaves behind parents Helen, 45, father Paul, 46 and brother Joe, 20.

Alasdair Kesson, Bydales headteacher, led the praise to the popular teenager.

He said: “Georgina was a much loved, popular pupil at Bydales School. She was a very talented and gifted musician and will be fondly remembered by all.

"Georgina will always be part of Bydales and her friends have already taken part in lots of fund raising activities and these will continue over the coming years.

“We understand that this will affect a lot of people and school will put support in place for any pupils, parents or staff who feel they need help in dealing with their grief as we understand that this may also affect families dealing with similar circumstances at home.

“On the day of Georgina’s funeral, we will be holding a whole school assembly to celebrate Georgina’s life.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with Georgina’s family and friends at this extremely difficult time.”

The teenager’s death comes at a time when it was hoped her life-long ambition to record one of her self-penned songs could be released as a charity single by Sony.

Following her diagnosis family and friends raised money for the Teenage Cancer Trust in her name.