“With huge ‘don’t kill Bambi’ eyes and Beat-Girl insouciance issuing from Betty Page lips, Paloma Faith is a born performer”      ID

“I can be wilder than the wind 190 miles an hour, I’m in a whole other dimension, dancing doubles on the floor, You think I’m crazy, a little bit hazy But I’m stone cold sober”    Paloma Faith

The force of nature that answers to the name PALOMA FAITH is one that has been known in underground arts circles in London for some time.  As an ex magician’s assistant, trained contemporary dancer,  St Martin’s college alumni with an MA in theatre direction, performer in burlesque shows and actress , Paloma has been mixing media throughout her short adult life. A few years ago she introduced music, her primary love,  into the equation, at first mimicking the blues and soul singers she so admired, but eventually finding her own voice.

It is this extraordinary voice and persona that you can hear for the first time when her debut single “Stone Cold Sober” is released this August.

Ten random facts about Paloma Faith (plus an extra one for her already burgeoning fan club)

She is half Spanish, half English

She appears in the new Terry Gilliam film “The Imagination of Dr Parnassus”

Her favourite performance artist is Ryan Styles

She began singing in cabaret and burlesque clubs

She has a track on the forthcoming Basement Jaxx album

When she was a magician’s assistant she would be sawn in half on stage

She was born in Hackney

Paloma has had lots of interesting jobs, including appearing as a live ghost on a ghost train and working as as assistant in Agent Provocateur

She once described her early performances as “David Lynch meets William Blake at the circus”.

She appeared in the St Trinians film as Andrea the Emo

She once joked about slumming it at festivals – “Anywhere you can’t wear stilettos just isn’t worth going”.

Inspired by iconic figures like Etta James, Billie Holiday, David Lynch and Tim Burton, Paloma Faith brings a whole new dimension to the phrase ‘the real deal’. Here is where the story begins….