23 year old Tiffany Page signed to Mercury Records in early 2009 and spent most of last summer in LA and London writing and recording her debut album, which will be released in August 2010.
Tiffany releases her debut single, Walk Away Slow on March 15th 2010. On first listen it is her voice that will strike you first. It's a voice that knocks you back and then sits you to attention. It has the sassy swagger of Chrissie Hynde, Shirley Manson's vampish puss and the hellion roar of Courtney Love. It soars and soothes and cracks around the edges, as spiky as it is seductive.
Born in Britain in 1986, Page lived in Zimbabwe from the age of one to six before moving back to the UK.
It was in Zimbabwe that Page had her first experience of performance, taking part in choir lessons, though her powerful voice led to her initially being told off for drowning out the other children. "I think that made me shy about singing in front of a lot of people," she says, "I never went up for school plays, I always sat back after that."
Performing with a band allows Page's songs to become a lot bigger, her expressive and pained voice fills the space made by guitars and drums and lifts her performance.
Moving from being a solo performer to working with a band, Page has also begun working with other songwriters to help her learn her trade.
"I sometimes write on my own, but I prefer collaborating because I learn more when I'm writing with other people," she explains. "They give me ideas which I've never thought of, it's like having a whole other brain to work through."
Though she writes with others, Page maintains that the lyrics to songs such as 'Walk Away Slow' come directly from her own life and certainly the tales of inappropriate relationships and spurned advances give a sense of what life is like for a 23 year old in London.