The singer & # 39; Rockabye & # 39; Anne-Marie was once a karate champion

Then at age 12, she won two medals of gold at the world championship of … karate

"My attention time has always been very short so I've tried a lot of things." She talks about her wide range of products. Interest in an e-mail interview with Star2 .

"I always knew that I wanted to sing, I just did not know it would be possible to be artist. "

Anne-Marie Nicholson, who passes by Anne-Marie, also lives her artist's dreams today.

The 27-year-old's career native of Essex took off with the tremendous success of the Rockabye in 1945. The collaboration project with Clean Bandit has already allowed 1.8 billion views on YouTube

Since then, the bus Anne-Marie's career is on the rise with her first album of 2018 Speak Your Mind as Alarme, Ciao Adios and more recently, Friends .

The singer-songwriter, known for several angry breaking songs, explains what drew her to the subject. "Because that's what I've lived in. I write about real life experiences and I feel people relate to it because it happens often (unfortunately)." [19659002] Speaking of live experiences inspiring her music, Anne-Marie says that karate helped her somehow as a musician. (She even became the inspiration for her song, Karate )

"Karate has helped me gain self-confidence from a very young age."

Anne-Marie became famous thanks to Rockabye a collaborative album with Clean Bandit in 2016. Photo: Warner Music

1. It's interesting that you chose to use your first name, Anne-Marie, as the stage name Is there any particular reason behind this?

We thought we would first choose a completely different name, but we decided that Anne-Marie was a p had unique and it was me

I did not want to have a different character – I'm the same on and off stage.

2. When you first signed up as an artist, you had a "development period" where you were a guest singer for other artists instead of having your own solo career right now. It was frustrating for you?

I think it was one of the best periods of development possible, the fact that I am able to discover the tours, discover new music and watch the creation of other people I've inspired a lot during my solo project.

So, without that, I would be a very different artist.

3. Rockabye was a worldwide success. Do you remember the first time you were approached to record the song? Did you think it was going to be so big?

Clean Bandit sent me an email while I was at a festival and as soon as I heard it, I recorded it and registered it.

I never knew how great he would be, I just knew that I liked the message behind it.

4. You have co-written all the songs on your first album Speak Your Mind . How many songs did you originally write? Was it difficult to try to reduce it?

I think I had over 1000 songs to choose from and as they are all very personal to me; It was very hard but I had the opinion of other people, my label, my friends, my mother and my dad and that's how we came to # 39; album.

5. In addition to you, there are many British women's pop bands like Dua Lipa, Rita Ora and Jessie J that are doing very well now. How do you differ from others?

I think it starts with the voice. All of these girls sound different from one another, which automatically places you in a non – competitive place.

I am making my own journey and writing my own stories