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| Paloma Faith |
The singer hates a certain James Blunt megahit and feels empowered by Chaka Khan, but which Aussie bard does she think wrote the best song of all time?
The first song I remember hearing
My mum was a massive fan of Nina Simone but she’s got dyspraxia. She was always having dinner parties, but she’d always make people dance. I just have an image of her clapping out of time to Simone’s song Baltimore.
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| Paloma Faith |
I don’t really feel that I’m of this time,” says British singer Paloma Faith, who brings a mad splash of color and pizzazz to the current music scene. “I don’t connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.” The London native has been compared to Amy Winehouse and called “the next Adele,” but Faith’s timeless singing style actually has more in common with the brazen drama of Shirley Bassey and the emotional delivery of Etta James. She eschews the “neo-soul” label that gets put on her, and says, “I think soul is soul. I don’t see new soul as any different to old soul. I tend to think of music in terms of old R&B, and soul is definitely more old-fashioned, which is what I am.”
