Perhaps the strangest moment of Freya Ridings’ career so far came when she gazed down from the stage, worried that her fans might be drowning in confetti. Or maybe it was when Lewis Hamilton sent her a congratulatory Instagram message. Either way, life is getting weird for the 23-year-old BRIT School graduate who hit the Top 10 with the heart-breaking piano ballad Lost Without You in October last year.

We begin with her brush with Britain’s foremost Formula 1 driver.