With her debut EP 'Young & Naive', Nieve announced her arrival into the ring. With follow-up 'Lifetime Of Wanting', she delivered the knockout blow, and there's no stopping her now. "It's just so cool," reflects Nieve. "I don't expect anything from it, really. I'm just a normal person. I get starstruck over anybody and everything, but more than anything, I get starstruck so much over the people who support me. Just the fact they listen to my music and support me when actually, I want to support them. It's been incredible for that to come with every release.

Much like that Justin Bieber movie, the early days of High School Musical watchalongs and a kinship with Hannah Montana look even more critical after the year Nieve has had. Growing up in a small village where becoming a musician can be seen as pretty unrealistic, she "wanted to be Hannah Montana, not realising that you could actually be Hannah Montana."

If Nieve wanted to tour, well, the past 12 months have delivered on that with two live stints alongside Inhaler, one with Dylan, and several festivals, including Glastonbury and Reading & Leeds. It all serves as a full-circle realisation of everything Nieve dreamed about from the beginning; she's always wanted "people to understand, connect and feel safe in the music and like they can resonate with everything I'm saying."

With a connection already setting up a sold-out start to 2024, each moment Nieve takes with a laugh and a hilariously bemused take on everything. "Luckily, this has all worked out, haha," she cracks. Following a year of transformation and evolution, Nieve Ella is ready to welcome 2024 and every grandstand moment destined to come. "I've changed so much. Even this week, I was thinking that I've changed so much since before October, never mind the start of the year!" says Nieve. "I'm just constantly changing because I feel as though, y'know, as a human, we go through so much stuff every day.

Gazing around her bedroom, the journey to now may still be sinking in ("I've still got some more dates in Europe, so NOT YET!" she cracks), but the future is bursting with possibility. With 'Lifetime Of Wanting' signalling an artist stepping into her own voice, finding the confidence to go into what's next is currently the focus. "I just want to be more confident. I just want to be able to be in rooms with people and feel like I belong there because I've spent a lot of time feeling that imposter syndrome. Thinking that nobody really knows who I am and that I'm just someone from a small place that's not London at all, but I just want to feel confident. I want to feel like I belong in the places that I am.

Nieve Ella doesn't just belong in these places now; she owns the whole damn building. If it's going to happen, keep happening and stay happening, then the world better be ready. Nieve Ella is ready to take what's hers in 2024.