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Daisy Dares
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Daisy Dares You is a 16-year-old future pop sensation from a sleepy little village in rural Essex. “I might be young, but I’m really not some blonde little dolly girl,” she says. “And I’m not gonna be a helpless artist. I know what I want, and the only way it’ll come out that way is if I do it.
That much is true and may go some way to explaining how someone born in 1993 has already managed to craft a clutch of surefire pop hits. “Well, you do definitely have good space to write out here,” she admits. “And I spend a lot of my time sitting about reading poetry, which might’ve helped. But, really, I’m just from a musical family, so I’ve played guitar and piano since I was about six. And if you play, you eventually start to write. It’s just one of those things.”
The first “proper” song Daisy wrote was called Hurt. She’d been working on it for quite a while when, on Boxing Day 2007, she played it at a family gathering. A musician friend of her mum’s, Matthew Marston, was sufficiently impressed to invite Daisy over to his home studio to help her record it. “That was pretty amazing,” she remembers. “I went from strumming in my bedroom to recording in a proper vocal booth.” Encouraged by friends and family who were enormously impressed with the finished result, Daisy started going into the studio at weekends and during school holidays. “It was just something to do for fun, really. I didn’t expect anything to come from it.”
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