• 25-year-old Celeste Waite has already been tipped for big things, winning both the Brits’ Rising Star Award and the BBC Music Introducing artist of the year.

• Born in Los Angeles but raised in Brighton, she grew up listening to jazz and soul greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Otis Redding, Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin.

• She wrote her first song, Sirens, at the age of 17, in tribute to her Jamaican father, who had died of lung cancer a year earlier; and Lily Allen released her first EP, Milk & Honey on her Bank Holiday Record label.

• Now signed to Polydor, Celeste has been praised for her “timeless” songs and emotional, storied lyrics. She says her goal is simply to “be able to make music for a long time, and music that actually matters to people.”