Stevie Parker’s earliest musical memory is singing to her toys as a little girl. “I was a crazy kid,” the 24-year-old admits. She’s come a long way: her fusion of ambient pop and electronic textures combine to create soulful compositions in the vein of Lapsley and Jessie Ware. “There’s a lot hanging on the words,” she says, from her hometown, Bristol. “I only started writing songs for myself by accident,” she reveals, having sung backing vocals, written for other people and been in bands as a teenager. “I just tried it one day thinking nothing of it and got a good reaction so I decided to study it at university.”
Choosing further education was “a shot in the dark,” Stevie continues. “I didn’t know where to start. I just threw myself into a situation where there was lots of other musicians and hoped for the best...” Her time at university was “definitely not wild,” she reveals. “I went from being a carefree person to becoming quite a serious person in a short space of time.” Reality had hit that rather than achieving overnight success, she was in it for the long haul. “I realised it was a process that was going to take me years and not months – it felt like the death of childhood. I remember thinking, ‘I’ve got a lot of work, growing up and self-discovery to do…’”
