Tinchy Stryder wants to collaborate with Opera singer Katherine Jenkins.

The 24-year-old British rapper hit it off with Jenkins after they met at the BBC earlier this year.

He is since understood to have approached the singer with an offer to record a duet.

"Tinchy was a little taken by Katherine,” a source told The Sun. “He has his fingers crossed she will do a track with him."

Stryder is due to release his third album 'Third Strike' in November. He said recently that the album was “deeper” than its predecessors.

(by Jason Gregory)