Laura Critchley

Appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2008

Your Long Haired Lovely From Liverpool!

Laura Critchley is set to step into the spotlight this year with her single ‘Sometimes I’ being released on February 25th. The single is remixed by Ash Howes (who has previously worked with Kylie Minogue and Nelly Furtado) and is produced by Steve Power (renowned for his work with Robbie Williams). It is to be the title track to her debut album and offers the perfect message for tongue-tied lovers.

The 23-year-old Liverpudlian beauty has racked up some serious credentials since embarking on her dream, and has been tipped for the big time by fellow musicians such as Mika ‘I love Laura's voice, she makes you feel the emotion in the song’.

Laura’s sound is steeped in pop beats, riddled with country swing, and each tune is polished off with a strong, note perfect voice which has been likened to Sheryl Crow, Natalie Imbruglia & Leann Rimes. In fact it was her stunning voice that prompted Robbie Williams to ask her to sing on his new as-yet-untitled album. “I thought I was just going to be recording a couple of lines of backing vocals but I ended up singing main parts on one of the songs” Laura said on returning from Robbie’s home studio in Los Angeles.

Another fellow musician who appreciates Laura’s voice is Ronan Keating who asked Laura to perform at his Ebony & Ivory Ball in aid of Cancer Research. In addition to Laura playing a set of her own songs Ronan asked her to duet with him on ‘Last Thing On My Mind’ - the duet he previously released with Leann Rimes. Rod Stewart even told Laura how much he loved her voice!

Laura has been careful in her choice of charity participation and gladly accepted Wishing Well House’s invitation to become an ambassador. The charity supports children with autism; a cause close to Laura’s heart as a close family friend suffers with the condition and she believes “music as a means to encourage communication is fantastic, many children with autism are pitch perfect and music, song and movement can help to encourage social interaction”.

Signed through her MySpace page to independent label Big Print Music and managed by Jeremy Marsh (Take That, Annie Lennox, Craig David) Laura continues to attract interest – she is currently being considered as a co-host on a new Channel 4 music and entertainment programme, and most recently has been catapulted into the Jan 2008 Mojo Playlist at No.5, with her album track “Superstar”, her self written tribute to her hero, Karen Carpenter.

With a strong engaging personality and stunning vocals on stage, her live performance has gone from strength to strength in the past few months and she has supported the likes of Deacon Blue, The Sugababes and took to the stage at The Clothes Show Live at Birmingham NEC in December.

You can see there’s a theme developing here. Success beckons and with a catalogue of brilliant songs to fuel her quest Laura’s career is set to skyrocket in 2008. Talented and gorgeous, Laura sits in the prime position to be admired by legions of fans. In her own words Laura is ‘just a girl next door that wants more and is trying to succeed’. We have a sneaky suspicion she is going to do just that.

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