Lauren Aquilina

Bristol-born singer/songwriter Lauren Aquilina began her musical career at the tender age of 13 when she began uploading home recordings to her YouTube channel, where she built up a formidable fan base of admirers. In 2012 she released her first EP, Fools, during her final year of school and went on to perform shows across the UK. Her meteoric rise to fame continued as she surpassed two million YouTube views of piano-led covers of pop songs by artists such as Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran, and she released the video for lead single "Fools." Praise came from many different outlets and eventually she received airplay on BBC Radio 1. In 2013 her second EP, Sinners, arrived and the title track spawned a U.K. charting single. ~ Scott Kerr