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Biography:
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Pixie is an 18-year-old singer who, refreshingly, sings as an 18-year-old. Hers is a fresh, expressive, fun and free attitude with a vocal style to match. If you've been keeping up with Pixie's lively and occasionally rather deranged YouTube video diaries you might have a fair idea of how the last couple of years have panned out, packed with songwriting sessions, nights out and gatecrashed parties, but for the full picture let's pull back and focus for a moment on the young girl growing up in Kent who found herself nicknamed Pixie at a young age (you can only call her by her real name if she's misbehaved), and who was frequently subjected to her mum's preferred listening of Take That and Diana Ross. Before long Pixie started picking out her own favourite singers - Mariah was an early passion - and at school her interest in singing and dancing had led to an audition for Italia Conti. She bagged a rare scholarship for the stage school which let her pursue her singing and dancing dreams and opened doors to an oddly diverse range of opportunities, from West End appearances in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to recording with Pink Floyd's Roger Waters.
When she was 14, Pixie found herself flicking through The Stage and spotted a classified ad that would set everything in motion. It's sometimes hard to look at these ads and think that anything would ever come from these oddly-worded, sometimes quite suspicious looking requests for young girls and boys, but before long this particular ad had taken Pixie to New York, to begin writing and recording demos. From that point in, things began to snowball.
As time went by and more demos were posted on Pixie's MySpace a bidding war broke out, eventually leading Pixie to sign with Mercury in the UK and Interscope in America. The results, right now, are songs that run the gamut of teendom with songs about hearts skipping and hearts breaking, about crushed dreams and dreamy crushes.
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