It started at 12- writing precocious poems about love and saving the world, adding melodies, singing them into a dictaphone. 

At 15 I added some guitar chords and recorded the songs onto cassette tapes. I posted them to myself for copyright and still have a cupboard with jiffy bags, full of old cassettes. Shortly after, the Mini Disc recorder came out and changed the way I record and logged my music.

Around 16 I went to college and got to mix with other musos, I wrote more, played my first gig but was painstakingly shy.

Then onto Uni where music was all around me and weekly I would get to watch Corinne Bailey Rae, Cara Robinson, John McCallum, Rachel Modest, The Haggis Horns and JD73- great music was everywhere. I wanted to dive in and join in but I just couldn’t leap yet.  

Isaac Hayes changed my life. When I heard his song, “Do your thing”, the line’ if singing is your thing then you just got to sing, so sing on, coz whatever you do, you gotta do your thing. This absolutely struck me. And so I began. 

I spent a year in Portugal and Mexico and every time I passed a bar with a guitar I got up and sang a song. Returning to Leeds, I cut my teeth singing with jazz/hip hop outfit Thelonious with Bill Laurance, funk/rock band Doctor Octopus and trip hop/soul band The Bluefoot Project as backing singer for Rachel Modest. I recorded my first demo at Sponge Studios in Leeds, which opened lots of doors for me.  Before then no one knew I sang or wrote.

Back in London, I joined lots of bands- drum n bass, jazz, Sephardi music and continued writing and performing my own music. Soon I was signed to Monumental Management who took me to Radio 2 with Janice Long, Radio 6 Music with Chris Hawkins, Glastonbury Festival, the main stage at Secret Garden Party and on tour around the UK with Nell Bryden and led me to releasing my first singles, Don’t Call Me Baby, Trippy Kind of Love and Ruthless, all receiving great reviews. 

Around the same time I met Tricity Vogue and swung onto the London cabaret scene performing with her as her sidekick, Honey Mink, and often sharing stages with Michael Roulston, Dusty Limits and The Black Cat Cabaret. I also regularly performed with (and still do) Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers, Ian Beetlestone & The Drowning Rats, my oldest musical pals from my teenage years. 

Venues include Ronnie Scott’s, The Jazz Café, Café de Paris, Crazy Coqs at Zédel, Black Cat Cabaret, Mr. Fogg’s Residence, Scarfes Bar at The Rosewood, Kimpton Fitzroy, Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, Rockwell, Old Selfridges Hotel, The Cinnamon Club, and Cinnamon Kitchen, Sushi Samba, Water Rats, The Greennote. Cadogan Hall and How The Light Gets in Festival at Kenwood. 

I still sing jazz- aint nothing like those old rhythms and rhymes. I still perform my own music too with my country/blues/rock n roll band, my jazz band and my duo. I’m available for hire. 

I have written songs for JD73, Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers and all the songs for children’s book series ‘Jungle Jam’ plus my own childrens albums too which are available everywhere.  I am also a 4x award-winning children’s entertainer and musician in London and the creator of Lanaland- world of music and fun for under 5s and their families. 

Recently I collaborated on a writing and recording project spearheaded by musical powerhouse Adar Avisar and featuring his acclaimed friends Haim Romano and Yaron Gershovsky plus Tal Bergman and Yossi Fine. We amassed a massive catalogue of songs, had loads of fun and I learned that all I need is a title and a mood and away I go.

Now, you can expect to hear my songs on your radios and televisions, in your elevators and cinemas and as you’re swinging in a hammock on the other side of the world with a cocktail in your hand. It’s all on the way. I am actively seeking publishers and sync agents so do get in touch so I can share my catalogue with you.