The 27-year-old is an English soul singer-songwriter from Birmingham who narrowly missed out on winning a Mercury prize last year after James Blake claimed the honour and she’s now in the running to receive a best British Breakthrough Act prize at the upcoming BRIT Awards, but she still doesn’t think she’s a very good pop star.
She told the Independent : ”I’m still very shy, and very private. Being a pop star is something I don’t think I’m very good at. I’m worried it’s making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment.
”When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.”
The ‘Green Garden’ hitmaker – who only eighteen months ago was still working as a receptionist at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – has also found it hard to adjust to her fame and doesn’t like being the focus of people’s attention.
She explained: ”Nowadays, whenever I sit down with someone, or I see someone I haven’t seen for a long time, or even if I’m in the toilet in a restaurant, people want to stop and talk about me.
”They tell me either that they love my stuff, or quite possibly – and this has happened, at least once – that they don’t. They want to know about my hairstyle, or what I’m wearing, who I’m wearing.”
Last night Laura opened the star-studded BAFTA AWARD ceremony with rapper Tinie Tempah, performing their duet Heroes, from Tempah’s latest album Demonstration.
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