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Freya Ridings

English Musician

Born: Apr 19, 1994

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Selfies are one of those things I generally take but never post. It's more to remember the moment or what I'm doing. Freya Ridings

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Songwriting really anchored me. Freya Ridings

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I remember in 2016 when I got signed to my record label Good Soldier, which is a very small indie label. They took a big risk on me because ballads were the furthest thing from cool at the time. Freya Ridings

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I heard that your subconscious is on the right side. I always shut my right eye when I play, or both eyes. I feel like you go to a deeper place in your subconscious, and you tell the stories that are more deeply within you. Freya Ridings

Growing up, I promised myself that if I was every lucky enough to have a hit and also a hit that I had written myself, I would never get tired of performing it. I would always be grateful for that. Freya Ridings

Going to school, sort of not realising that caring about things was going to make me stand out and make me weird, and I think also being a redhead and being tall, bigger than the other kids... Anything that makes you different at school makes you a target. Freya Ridings

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All of my music teachers gave up on me one by one because I couldn't read music. Freya Ridings

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I'm obsessed with American talk shows. Freya Ridings

Obsessed Talk Talk Shows American Shows

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing. Freya Ridings

Dyslexic Writing School Reading Struggled Academically Really

I was in a choir at school and we were part of the BBC Proms back in around 2002. Freya Ridings

School Back Part Around Were Choir

I remember, a couple of years ago I was playing my first headline show, and it was to 100 people in St Pancras Old Church in London; and me and my mum were like, 'We don't know 100 people, how are we going to sell these tickets?' Freya Ridings

I was quite a different child, I felt isolated. In time, that level of being with yourself crystallises who you are, and you can see what other people are without being blinded by what they want from you. Freya Ridings

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I think, definitely, I was hugely influenced by - obviously like Adele and Florence the Machine. They were my complete idols growing up. But also, there were a lot of influences from my dad, like singer-songwriters of the '70s like Carole King and James Taylor. Freya Ridings

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