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Hotly-tipped new singer-songwriter Olivia Dean makes the culturally eclectic, straight-talking kind of music that could only ever be born out of London. Daughter to Jamaican/Guyanese and English parents, she’s been performing since she was eight. It’s a passion that has taken her from a gospel choir to busking in the streets to the acclaimed BRIT school. Since then, she’s been on the road with Rudimental and in the studio honing her songwriting. Every song is a story. And not your epic romances or long lost love sagas, but down the pub one Friday night with your mates kind of stories – falling in love with a boy that loves a shandy or getting wolf whistled in the street. Naming everyone from Ms. Lauryn Hill, Amy Winehouse, and Carole King as inspiration, it’s the artists with an original sound and engaging storyline that she really admires “where the music reads like a book, and each song feels like the next chapter”.