Sometimes, when we're on tour, I'll find an empty room or a corner and I'll just sing. It heals something in me, be it some kind of isolation or loneliness. It's really quite beautiful that singing can do that.

Freya Ridings

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Me and my mom were just watching the charts like, 'Why isn't it stopping?' And now I've got a platinum disc in my bedroom.

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At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

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At the age of 11 I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I suddenly found what I wanted to do.

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All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

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I was in a choir at school and we were part of the BBC Proms back in around 2002.

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