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I am an 18 year old female singer songwriter, heavily influenced by the music of Bruce Springsteen, and brought up on everything from The Clash, to Cajun music, and literally everything inbetween.
I was born in August 1989 in East London, to a proper cockney clan! London still feels like home but when I was 9 my parents sold everything we owned (which wasn't much), and took us on a big trip around the world. The idea was to go quick, while it was still there... Optimistic, eh? We spent time in Australia and New Zealand, and the pacific, camping most of the time and travelling cheaply. I was educated on the move, in a kind of haphazard way. I had a lot of teachers, but few had formal qualifications, which made it more real and a lot more fun, if not entirely accurate. And it was whilst travelling that we met many of the people I first sang about. Many of the things I experienced as I grew up; leaving people and places, travelling and coming home, losing people I love, knowing awe and love, heartbreak and fear, homelessness and poverty, music and friendship, and so, so much laughter and goodness and hope, have been the inspiration of rock musicians since rock music was born. I was lucky to grow up amid all of it.I wrote and recorded my debut album, 'Innocence and Experience', when I was 14. I write all my own songs, and I've recently released my latest album 'The Acoustic Sessions'. I take pride in writing about things that are real, and I hope my songs are saying something worth saying.Right now Devon, England is home, and I dropped out of my A-Levels to take up the chance to go on tour in New Zealand and Australia, which I wound up doing solo, in a van, frequenting small bars and cafes and open mic nights, which was an awesome experience even if it isn't ideal.My performances consist of me accompanying myself on piano or keyboards or guitar (all which I'm self taught in) or by getting together with fellow musicians and jamming... I love to perform solo in an acoustic setting but I'm also working on getting a band together. I'd sing just about anywhere just to get the experience and lately I've found myself doing that more and more, and although, until recently, being under 18 and refusing to sing covers restricted the venues I could play at, I still have a great time gigging when a venue lets me!I'm a hard worker - when my friends are out at clubs, I'm in my bedroom writing and working on songs, but it's something I love so I'm not complaining.I've given a few interviews and had radio play in Devon, in Detroit, and in Europe, Canada and South America, as well as various places in Australasia, and I've had some good feedback - which I hope you will agree is justified!I'm right at the beginning of the journey, and I know I have so much to learn and so far to go, but I hope we can all go there together... if the journey is as important as the destination, and maybe the journey is all weve got, then I hope we can sing, and dance and drum and rattle all the way! And I hope you love my music like I love making it.Bow
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