BETSY - BETSY on CD

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Betsy was born on a goose farm in rural Wales, finding her voice from campfire sing-alongs and the local eisteddfod (where she boldly covered Rage Against The Machine) to the powerhouse vocalists within her parents' vintage record collection. Keen to pursue a career in music - but knowing nobody in the industry - she was encouraged by her hard-working family to find a fall-back, and moved to London to study fashion design at Central St Martins. One distraction led to another when Betsy was invited to design catwalk for the esteemed Balenciaga in Paris: an intense, exhilarating experience filled with fascinating characters, but one that ultimately ate into her songwriting. And so Betsy returned to Wales, swapping what many of her peers deemed the job of a lifetime for making music in a grotty caravan in her brother's garden (which you can glimpse across much of her artwork). Over the run of her acclaimed early singles - and now, on 'You Won't Love Me' - Betsy has emerged one of the year's stand-out voices. Yet it is everything else she absorbs into her debut album - influences across film, art, fashion, travel and relationships - that have cemented her diva credentials. 'It's important to have your look, your thing, to be so recognisable that a child could draw you and you'd still know who it is,' she says. Someone once told Betsy that to become iconic, you should be identifiable by silhouette alone: her debut album suggests that Betsy is well on the way to making this picture a reality.