The 23-year-old leftfield pop singer-songwriter - who headlines Music Week's Breakout next Wednesday (September 14) - was so frustrated at the lack of opportunities for female artists in her genre locally she was initially forced to relocate to New York to further her career.

Having been impressed upon at an early age to pursue music by her parents, she was bought a guitar as a seven-year-old by her father and by the time aged 10 she could play it she ...