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Portsmouth singer-songwriter Jerry Williams started penning lyrics at the age of 12. \u201cI remember singing a few songs to my mum and her saying, \u2018maybe you\u2019re not much of a singer, maybe you should stick to the songwriting\u2019,\u201d Williams quips. \u201cI was like \u2018yeah, okay\u2019, but I just kept working on it. I\u2019m glad she was honest, because it just drove me harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as pre-teen, she was picking through childhood heroes for inspiration: Roald Dahl and other children\u2019s novelists. Nowadays, her list of influences reads like a Zane Lowe playlist: Coldplay, David Gray and Johnny Cash.<\/p>\n

Williams finds writing songs in the bathroom effective (\u201cit\u2019s really weird\u201d) \u2013 but staring
\ndeeply into the mirror is what she does best, metaphorically speaking anyway. Using coming- of-age issues as subject matter \u2013 \u201cboys, friends and the things they talk about\u201d \u2013 Williams\u2019 tracks are an honest insight into the 19 year-old\u2019s mind. Aside from releasing her four-track debut EP \u201cCold Beer\u201d last month, this summer Williams has been racking up studio time with the likes<\/p>\n

of Whinnie Williams and Newton Faulkner. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe I was sitting round Newton\u2019s table, having a cup of tea with him and his brother. I was just like, \u2018oh my god, what\u2019s going on?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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