She may be a new name, but she's not some straight-out-of-the-box precocious teenager like Katie Melua or Joss Stone. For a start, unlike them she writes all her own songs - and to do that, she felt she first had to get some serious living under her belt. "The idea of being a songwriter didn't really come until my early 20s. It took me a long time to work up the balls and find I had something to say,” she admits.

On the other hand, she doesn't try to make... more