surrey cover story
POALOMA FAITH
n confirming her date at the Festival, Paloma said: “I’m so thrilled to be playing at Hampton Court Palace Festival
this June. I hear that the atmosphere is so intimate in the open air setting of base court - it will be the perfect setting for my summer concert.”
Renowned for her unique style, the Hackney-born singer has soared to fame since her early days on the cabaret scene. Now she is one of entertainment’s leading lights, and has proudly received Four BRIT Award nominations to date, including British Female Solo Artist and Best British Album. Paloma has worked with a legendary roster of music icons and singer- songwriters and producers including Pharrell Williams, Diane Warren, John Legend and Raphael Saadiq. At the Festival, she will delight the audience with songs from her recent and most successful album to date: A Perfect Contradiction with top ten singles Can’t Rely on You and her first Number 1, Only Love Can Hurt Like This.
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Surrey welcomes our Cover Artiste, the iconic Paloma Faith, to this summer’s Hampton Court Palace Festival
Born Paloma Faith Bloomfield to an English mother and Spanish father in July 1981, this singer, song-writer and actress is known for her unique, retro and sometimes eccentric style. Her parents divorced when she was very young and she was raised in London by her mother, who encouraged her to dance. Paloma went on to study for a degree in contemporary dance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance followed by an MA in theatre directing at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design. Always enterprising, Paloma funded her studies through various part-time jobs, including sales assistant, singing in a burlesque cabaret, working as a life model and a magician’s assistant. Whilst working in a pub she was asked to front the resident
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