alternative Kate Nash

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Growing up in Harrow, Nash first became interested in music during her childhood when she learnt how to play the piano. She attended St John Fisher school and moved onto St Joan of Arc School in Rickmansworth. Her musical talents were harnessed further when she was required to write songs for her GCSE in Music and her time studying at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in South London. Her first love was that of acting and she made moves to start a career in acting by auditioning at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School but was rejected for a place. It was in the few days after her rejection that she fell down a flight of stairs, breaking her leg. During her recovery Nash was unable to move and found solace for her emotions in songwriting. She began to write some new songs, finished old ones and decided that she would book herself a gig at a local bar to showcase her songs, and subsequentally decided to start a career in music.[1]

After a few gigs, Nash uploaded her music to the popular website MySpace. Her music soon began to receive support from users of the site, and Nash found herself a manager (also through MySpace) and began to look around for producers for her music.

Fellow MySpace star Lily Allen has stated that she believes Nash is the "next big thing", and she has also garnered support from publications such as Vogue and NME, the latter dubbing her as "chavtronica".

Nash has been compared several times to Lily Allen because of their storytelling lyrics, the dry sense of humour that fuels their songs as well as distinctive London accents.