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Alex was born in a small village down south to a somewhat musical family. Music was always a huge part of her everyday life and so it wasnât long before she started to play various instruments. Her childhood was dominated by the sound of drums from her father and brothers incessant playing and so there was always a competition for the spotlight.

Music at home was heavily influenced by her fathers love for country music.

âFrom an early age I could sing word for word every Garth Brooks
song. I loved it! My friends to this day still think Iâm mad.â

Other huge musical influences were the likes of the legendary Frank Sinatra, the Dire Straits, Dr Hook and Mozart.

âMy father had a very diverse taste in music and he would say â
âthere are only two types of music, good and badâ I think he nicked
that of Louis Armstrongâ

At the age of twelve Alex joined the local Stage Coach, a weekend stage school for singing, dancing and drama.

âI knew when I was very young that I was going to be a performer. I
used to spend hours singing âThe Little Mermaidâ and making up
dance routines to Flashdanceâ

It wasnât until stage coach that she realised singing was her thing and like all young children she wanted a guitar to accompany her.

âI remember getting my first guitar for Christmas, It was a Fender
Stratocaster Squier. I never realised playing something was going
to be so difficult and it wasnât long before I had almost given up
with the guitar completelyâ

Alex continued to take lessons for years with a great teacher Andy Boulton who went on to become a great friend and incredibly influential person in Alexâs musical roots.

â I did my first gig with Andy, I canât have been any older than 14 and
absolutely petrified. I played Baker Street on the saxophone. It was fantasticâ

There as a turning point in Alexâs life when someone so influential burst onto the scene and it was inevitable that she was to become a singer.

âMy father came home one day clutching a record with a excited grin. It
was the first time I had ever heard an Eva Cassidy record. Something
inside me said âI want to be like thatâ and that was it. I got an acoustic
guitar and spent hours trying to recreate Eva Cassidy records, and I did
it. Months later I reached the point where I could finger pick to a good
standard and recreate her records with ease. This led me on to performing
covers but adapting them similarly to the way Eva would have had she
covered them, and what a buzz!â

After mastering finger picking Alex continued lessons and joined a covers band with Andy, with the occasional acoustic gig around Salisbury. But it was short lived as Alex wanted more.

âI realised if I was going to make it in music I would have to leave Salisbury.
I had gone up to London to record a demo at Tin Pan Alley Studio, and by
the second day I had been offered the job as studio manager. I moved to
London a week later to start workâ

Whilst working at the studio Alex met some fantastic musicians and consequently got involved in various gigs around London at which time she was also gigging acoustically. This is really where her passion for song writing kicked in.

âI always knew that the money in the industry was in writing so it
was something that I had to try to see if I had it in me. My parents
have a house in Spain so I jumped in the car and drove there to spend
six weeks writing in solitude. It was the most idyllic setting. I have to
isolate myself to write, when Iâm in London I find to many distractionsâ

Having returned from Spain Alex has been recording her new EP â¦like gold dust on my soul