Ella Eyre: ‘I have a posh accent, so people assume I come from a privileged background’

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Ella Eyre: ‘I have a posh accent, so people assume I come from a privileged background’

By Alexandra Pollard 

 

'You can get so caught up in this hurricane of work and this pressure that if you’re not working, it’s going to dry up' (Jack Bridgland)

 

The day after Ella Eyre’s father died, she was supposed to play a comeback show in Camden.

 

“I didn’t know what the f*** to do,” says the singer, fiddling with her rings. “I just didn’t tell anybody.” 

 

The few people who knew urged her to cancel the gig.

 

But she hadn’t played a show in a while – not since her 2015 debut album, Feline, which arrived a few years after she broke through with the drum’n’bass goliath “Waiting All Night”, her number one collaboration with Rudimental.

 

Full Story: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ella-eyre-interview-new-me-single-jamaica-privilege-a9288881.html