BETSY

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.