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Laura Mvula

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that’s what my ultimate dream is.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

Lots of people think I’m telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

I’ve always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn’t have ideas as to what format it’d be, or how I’d do it. I’m not very good with plans. I didn’t think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I’d go as far as saying that was something I’d prevent.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

Fame hasn’t really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it’s like a bit of a travelling circus.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, ‘It sounds like he’s played the wrong note there.’ I remember the look of horror on my dad’s face, and thinking, ‘Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.’

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up – my dad played, and I thought it was cool – and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I’m very pleased about now.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

I don’t think I’ve ever been chatted up, and I don’t think I’ve ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

– Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can’t do anything about it, but they don’t seem bothered.

– Laura Mvula

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