The peacemaker
The traveller
The dreamer
The listener
The thinker
The supporter
The pioneer
The giver
The artist
The inspirer
The advocate
The believer
The explorer
The traveller
The dreamer
The listener
The thinker
The supporter
The pioneer
The giver
The artist
The inspirer
The advocate
The believer
The explorer
100 Glenister Park Road, Streatham. My first memories are from this address; seeing the mid-wife gently lean over my mother as she held my newborn brother.
I grew up in diverse, working class South London. We moved two hours north a couple of weeks after my seventh birthday. Lanky, brainy and ever-so-polite, I did well in school and sports and most other things.
My love of music was born with me I think. We would sing seven-part-harmonies around the dinner table, hum bass lines and learn to play "3 against 4" cross rhythms. I was brought up on Pink Floyd, Genesis, Sting and Fleetwood Mac... "Real music..." according to my dad.
When I was nine, I wrote my first song, with my best friend Sophie. We used to go the library during playtime and pester the librarian to listen to us. That was our first stage - and we took advantage of it.
Since then I have been given ample opportunity to play and perform. Writing was always a very natural thing for me; a natural introvert and internal processor with a love of literature, composing was my comfort during those teenage years and gave me the perfect outlet.
I married the love of my life at 19, and we moved to Sydney, so that I could study songwriting and fulfil a life-ambition of living in Australia. Here I grew in my passion to use music to share truth, to inspire and be a role model, especially to young women, and to bring joy and peace.
It was in the Philippines, when we started our work with a charity, that I grew a passion for using music to advocate, to make people question, think about something that they had never thought of before. I worked with 14 children from the slums who became a choir that traveled to Hong Kong and the USA. Seeing the power of their voices and stories intertwined showed me the incredible influence that music can have.
So, now my dream is s. Because we travel often, I have often worked alone, but I look forward to all of the collaborations that are coming my way. Two is better than one; and three... well, that's just exciting...
I grew up in diverse, working class South London. We moved two hours north a couple of weeks after my seventh birthday. Lanky, brainy and ever-so-polite, I did well in school and sports and most other things.
My love of music was born with me I think. We would sing seven-part-harmonies around the dinner table, hum bass lines and learn to play "3 against 4" cross rhythms. I was brought up on Pink Floyd, Genesis, Sting and Fleetwood Mac... "Real music..." according to my dad.
When I was nine, I wrote my first song, with my best friend Sophie. We used to go the library during playtime and pester the librarian to listen to us. That was our first stage - and we took advantage of it.
Since then I have been given ample opportunity to play and perform. Writing was always a very natural thing for me; a natural introvert and internal processor with a love of literature, composing was my comfort during those teenage years and gave me the perfect outlet.
I married the love of my life at 19, and we moved to Sydney, so that I could study songwriting and fulfil a life-ambition of living in Australia. Here I grew in my passion to use music to share truth, to inspire and be a role model, especially to young women, and to bring joy and peace.
It was in the Philippines, when we started our work with a charity, that I grew a passion for using music to advocate, to make people question, think about something that they had never thought of before. I worked with 14 children from the slums who became a choir that traveled to Hong Kong and the USA. Seeing the power of their voices and stories intertwined showed me the incredible influence that music can have.
So, now my dream is s. Because we travel often, I have often worked alone, but I look forward to all of the collaborations that are coming my way. Two is better than one; and three... well, that's just exciting...