Clare Maguire

Clare Maguire “I am having a really good day. I am just here in Hamburg and it is really cool speaking to people all the way over in Australia.” Birmingham’s Clare Maguire is clearly enjoying her ride atop the music wave as her 2011 continues to go from strength to strength.

Clare Maguire The 23 year-old with the big, bold vocal may have only just released her debut album Light After Dark, but it is already 5 years since her musical journey really started on the back of MySpace.

While her early demos garnered attention from record labels, Maguire found herself invited to meetings with pop royalty of the Jay Z ilk. Hell, even Jarvis Cocker offered to write a song for her.

However, it wasn’t until Maguire polled fifth on the BBC Sound Of 2011 list, that everything suddenly fell into place.

Signed to Polydor back in 2008, Maguire had been slogging away on her record with Adele producer Fraser T. Smith without much thought to the fanfare that would await it upon completion. So how does she feel now that everything appears to be falling into place?

“It is always kind of fun when believe in what you are doing. It is also really special as my music isn’t as instant as a lot of people in the UK right now. I think it is definitely a grower type of album, so the more people talking about it, the better.”

Rather than allowing herself to get lost in the hype, Maguire is clearly remaining level headed about what lies around the corner.

Though unable to predict her own career path, she is is willing to admit that “now that this is all happening, it is really inspiring and it is just making me want to write more.”

Clare’s album, Light After Dark, is available right now.

“I am having a really good day. I am just here in Hamburg and it is really cool speaking to people all the way over in Australia.” Birmingham’s Clare Maguire is clearly enjoying her ride atop the music wave as her 2011 continues to go from strength to strength.

The 23 year-old with the big, bold vocal may have only just released her debut album Light After Dark, but it is already 5 years since her musical journey really started on the back of MySpace.

While her early demos garnered attention from record labels, Maguire found herself invited to meetings with pop royalty of the Jay Z ilk. Hell, even Jarvis Cocker offered to write a song for her.

However, it wasn’t until Maguire polled fifth on the BBC Sound Of 2011 list, that everything suddenly fell into place.

Signed to Polydor back in 2008, Maguire had been slogging away on her record with Adele producer Fraser T. Smith without much thought to the fanfare that would await it upon completion. So how does she feel now that everything appears to be falling into place?

“It is always kind of fun when believe in what you are doing. It is also really special as my music isn’t as instant as a lot of people in the UK right now. I think it is definitely a grower type of album, so the more people talking about it, the better.”

Rather than allowing herself to get lost in the hype, Maguire is clearly remaining level headed about what lies around the corner.

Though unable to predict her own career path, she is is willing to admit that “now that this is all happening, it is really inspiring and it is just making me want to write more.”

Clare’s album, Light After Dark, is available right now.