Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned

"My dad liked Blondie. My mum absolutely loved Sweet. And my uncles used to play in a garage band so there was always music going on around me. I grew up in the same kind of area of Melbourne as AC/DC - they used to practise around the corner from where I went to school."

Now the girl who had danced around her front room to Shaggy's Oh Carolina when she was three, and bought her first record - Silverchair - when she was seven, had inadvertently got herself noticed. Someone from Mushroom happened to be at the Italian bash and was very impressed indeed. Pretty soon she was signed to Island and landed herself with peerless eccentric pop collaborator Brian Higgins.

Her voice is equal parts animal snarl, vocal might and jazz slyness, and she has looks to melt. At his idyllic studio in Kent, in a house where Alice Liddell- the real life Alice In Wonderland - lived, Gabriella wrote the songs for Lessons To Be Learned. "Einstein is about stuff that I don't understand, like how they can send people into space yet there are so many sick children in hospital."
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