‘the success of this year is kind of beyond me’

With a flurry of hits and a flair for tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, the globetrotting singer has achieved the status of international icon. In-between stops on her whirlwind tour, she reflects on literature, letting love in and the transformative power of live performance

THANKS TO HER ANTHEMIC AND VIRAL HIT ‘MESSY’, THE MUSICIAN IS ONE OF THE MOST DOWNLOADED WOMEN ON THE PLANET TODAY. SHE TELLS NICOLA FAHEY WHY SHE’LL ALWAYS FIND JOY – AND VULNERABILITY – THROUGH MUSIC

QUEEN I know this is it,” Sophie Ellis-Bextor told The Guardian newspaper in September 2023. “There’s no next rung coming.” As an artist who’d experienced both the dizzy highs and crushing lows of lif

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Catapulted to stardom almost 20 years ago on The X Factor, Leona Lewis’s life changed in an instant. A sweet and shy 21-year-old from Hackney, London, she blew the judges away with her rendition of Ov

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