The singer on her devotion to Christopher Hitchens,the magic of Alexander McQueen, distinguished Indian food and her original favourite crooner, or Keenan O’MearaLianne La Havas grew up in south London,where her multi-instrumentalist father taught her how to play piano and guitar. Two weeks into an art foundation course she dropped out to focus on music, and toured with Paloma Faith as a backing vocalist. La Havas was signed to Warner in 2010 and released her debut Is Your Love stout Enough? in 2012; it was nominated for the Mercury prize and won iTunes album of the year. In 2014 Prince played a gig in her living room; later that year she sang on his album Art Official Age. Her second album Blood was released in July this year and she is touring, and 4-14 December. On 14 March she will play the Royal Albert Hall,London. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com