From the very beginning, I've been utterly submerged in World and Soul music. I was born to the sound of King Sunny Ade blaring from a labour-room CD player in Cardiff. Apparently on the volume front, I won…and being able to make myself heard has continued as you will see!

So it was music music music – I hate to say 'AN ECLECTIC MIX' but actually that does describe what was going on all around me. From my father I heard international music - Fela Kuti, Manu Chao, Gilberto Gill, Ali Farka Toure and a billion other World musicians and from my mother I heard Northern Soul, Tamla Mowtown and fabulous female artists like Carol King, Carly Simon, Martha Reeves, Etta James and Julie London.

My father is a percussionist and guitarist playing with different world music bands and normal family life involved festivals every summer. Glastonbury, Womad, Brecon, Forrest Fair, Elephant Fair, Marlborough Jazz…all were completely bonkers. We were there to have fun whilst my father performed or DJ'd, my brother and I dancing with the crowds or curled up off-stage sleeping through a late night gig. We were completely at home in festival land, immersed in different music, watching different performers with different skills just taking it all on board as children do. Music was what we did and my brother and I were encouraged to play instruments, dance and perform. I learned the piano and violin and though I got pleasure from them, I wasn't particularly good at either. But the music was in me, I loved to dance and play percussion, but I hadn't realized what form it was going to take and to be honest in the mist of teenage madness I was more bothered about other things.

Singing happened rather unexpectedly. In such a music mad house I have to say that on several occasions I was actually asked to stop singing! I subjected my parents and my brother to a bonkers singing voice that I had created which was totally irritating and un-natural and wore them all down. I'd go from to room warbling, my family cringing.

However...one day, aged 15, at a gorgeous musician friend's 50th birthday party, I had a desire to belt a tune out. It was one o'clock in the morning, the party was full of musicians and I just couldn't stop myself. I sang 'Cry me a River' acapella, and I fell hopelessly in love with doing so.

Since then I have gigged all over place…beach huts in India, at The Festival Segou on a floating stage on the Niger river in Mali at Festival of Stars, Malawi Brecon Jazz, Small Nations Festival to The Globe in Cardiff. I've recorded vocals for Willo Wispa 'Lollipop ladies favourite', German Djs D-Construction, Mike Trims Album 'Songs from the crucible'.

The current tunes I have written are Jazzy…and quite chilled and have a slight swing to them. One gig described me as 'Billy Holiday meets Nora Jones' which I was happy with and I'm very proud of them. I recorded with the delicious Doufus Styles who is fab. Tim Short (my father) on guitar and percussion, Arran Ahmun on drums and Jonathan Thomas on bass. I am so so eager to do more. I love singing and working with other musicians. Performing makes me happy and I'd love to do it all day everyday...