BIOGRAPHY

From the outside, one is acutely aware of a blonde, blue-eyed pop princess. However this makes her voice all the more unexpected. And in a day and age where music has become hopelessly predictable, the ability to surprise people is something rare.

Her music’s strength is also in the power of contradictions, catching a doubleness in her that is better heard than read about, capturing honesty in the voice. At once soft and harsh, her sassy lyrics and energetic, feel-good performance are underpinned by a soulful sound and authentic, sensual, lyricism. Punchy yet heartfelt. She waivers between a ready-to-take-on-the-world attitude, and despairing, sometimes cynical, lyrics.

Her videos leave much to be desired but what they do is hero her vocal performance and potential. A voice that once sat uncomfortably in a band, is much happier being a single narrative, a single female representative and role model.

Natalie James infects people with the energy she projects, lifting people’s minds and spirits.