Almost everything about the 27-year-old singer Anne-Marie suggests a Swedish background. Up to her last name: Nicholson. Blond, attractive and wholesaling hit parade pop with a bite, as we know it from , and , among others . Yet her cradle was not in Stockholm, but in East Tilbury, County Essex, where she grew up as the daughter of an Irish father and an English mother. After a successful period
… as karateka - the debut EP from 2015 is not called Karate for nothing - Anne-Marie threw herself into an equally successful singing career. She had her big break with Rockabye (with and ), after which she also scored - at least in her home country - with Alarm, Ciao Adios, Heavy, Then, Friends and the 2002 co- written by . They all return to Speak Your Mind, the first full-fledged album, therefore listened to now as a greatest hits. And that's, to be clear, is a recommendation! (RME)more
