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Paloma Faith - full name Paloma Faith Blomfield - was born on 21st July 1981 in Hackney, England, and is a British singer-songwriter and actress, covering the styles of pop and soul.

The singer is well known for her eccentric style, both musically and in her fashion. Paloma originally trained in contemporary dance and holds an MA in Scenography.

Paloma first started out in 2007, but not as herself. Her music career started by mimicking famous jazz and soul singer Etta James and Billie Holiday whose styles heavily influenced her early career.

The singer finally made a breakthrough in 2009 when she released her debut single, "Stone Cold Sober". The song was a big hit and it reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart. After a string of successful single releases Paloma then when on to release her debut album, "Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?" recorded entirely in her home city of London.

The red-headed singer's songwriting skills became apparent as she wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album. The album was successful, peaking at number nine in the UK Albums Charts, and remaining in the charts for a whole sixteen weeks.

The singer has been nominated for three BRIT Awards, including British Female Solo Artist, and she went on to perform at the 2011 awards alongside Cee Lo Green.

The unique and retro styled singer has even made film appearances in films, including "St Trinian's", "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" and "Dread".

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Paloma Faith is one of the biggest voices of our time. With a strong, jazz and soul influenced voice, similar to that of Amy Winehouse or Etta James, Paloma Faith enchants her fans with lyrically brilliant, beautifully crafted records. Even before she was a musician, Paloma Faith was already accustomed to performing and theatre. She studied contemporary dance and held a variety of intriguing jobs, such as a magician's assistant or a "stripper who didn't strip." Her background gave her a strong foundation as she began to craft her own performances. She writes her songs to be performed, each a unique blend of beautiful orchestral parts, stunning vocals, and quirky beats, promising a fabulous live music experience. She also crafts each of her music videos and stage set ups, costumes and all, fitting to her theatrical image. Paloma Faith's first album, 'Do You Want The Truth or Something Beautiful?' is a collection of pop, soul, and jazz songs that instantly wowed her home country, the UK. Her second album, 'Fall To Grace,' is an astounding follow up, flaunting Faith's incredible vocals on more personal, raw, and vulnerable songs. Her third album, following the trend of unique tracks, is called 'A Perfect Contradiction.' As the growth between these albums shows, Faith's career is just beginning and promises to be a great one.

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so i see Paloma at brighton pride. first time going to a festival & let me just say, you appreciate artists so much more when you see them live. so ever since pride..(this is no lie), i’ve brought a vinyl player, brought palomas new album on vinyl, downloaded EVERY single song… (i now know all of them by heart) made a scrap book with memories from pride, with 2 pages of her on stage.. watched her interviews..cried at her brit awards speech 2 times, & i’m currently waiting on her other albums to arrive. & i’m genuinely her new biggest supporter. always loved her, but seeing her live has done something. i admire her & i pray that one day i’ll be on stage. i promise i’m not a creep or obsessed, i’ve just found an idol & it feels amazing. LOVED IT❤️xxx

She was fantastic. Not my cup of tea to be honest, I bought the tix for my wife, but as the show was combined with a day's racing and it's a mile from my house, we couldn't lose really. The stage was at the side of the racecourse so we just went and stood at the barrier while we watched the racing. By the time she can on and everyone else piled down from the stands, we were bang up the front. She did an hour and a half, plenty of hits, the usual brilliant backing singers, great sound and a full stage. It was a proper concert. She does prattle on occasionally but that's part of her appeal. She's a lovely person, just with a belting voice. Great entertainer, great tunes, great show.

Such a good show! Paloma is such a joyful & energetic soul and she really got the crowd moving and singing along. The set list was fantastic, starting with the well-acclaimed ‘The Architect’, the title of her new album, and ending with the heart-wrenching ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’ which didn’t leave a single dry eye in the audience. What I loved most about the whole show was the small snippets when she would tell us stories about her past or when she would crack a joke which would leave the whole audience in fits of laughter - those moments were unforgettable!

Such an amazing evening, could never have wished for anything better!

You were brilliant out of this world incredible was amazing being there infount of the stage watching u sing the way u did u blow me away me and my partner loved every moment of the fantastic show thank u so very much beautiful paloma Faith I love u you are my idol got all your c.ds and bort a book last night aswell I took a load of photos and videos from last night and will treasure them for the rest of my life thank u ❤❤❤

What a night! waited 4 years for Paloma to return to Aus and wasnt disappointed. To see her perform at the iconic Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was an amazing experience. Loved her choice of songs,2 hours just wasn't enough could have stayed another 2 hours. The whole audience on their feet having the time of their lives. Will definitely go again . #dontmissoutnexttime

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Good concert and paloma really good live the only downside of the concert i felt politics should not have been discussed .The staging was very good also the band played well . paloma's voice was better than i thought handled the size of the hydro well.Special shout out to support act vintage trouble,every bit as good as paloma dont miss them if you have a ticket to see paloma faith.

I love the Architect album and it was even better seeing Paloma sing it live and with the added bonus of hearing her inspiration behind the writing of some of the songs. It was my no 1 Album of 2017 and so far in 2018 too.

Her voice is amazing and her quirky style makes her more adorable,

A Paloma Faith concert has to be on everyone's bucket list.

We saw Paloma Faith in Plymouth and it was a brilliant gig! She has a beautiful and very powerful voice and has a good rapport with the audience. The band and backing singers were also very good and tight musically.

All in all I would highly recommend seeing Paloma and we will definitely go again.

Absolutely brilliant x Paloma Faith is a wonderful talented lady. Love her x

The Show was extremely enjoyable and I truly had an amazing time.

Paloma is one natural warm beautiful artist. She's honest and heartwarming and I will definitely see her again x

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Paloma Faith: ‘If anyone can do it, it’s me’

Despite the balancing act – home schooling, a second baby, a fifth album and a nationwide tour – Paloma Faith always comes out fighting… and full of stories

H ere’s a nice little exclusive for you,” Paloma Faith leans into my voice recorder generously, grinning, “and you’ll like this because it’s about lactation!” We are huddled outside a café on a day that promised sun but delivered rain, and she pulls her jacket around her a bit tighter – on the back, in big letters it reads: IT’S ALL BOLLOCKS.

So, she says, a week ago she put a post on Instagram about her second baby’s aversion to breastfeeding, and minutes later got a call. “‘Don’t bin the milk!’ they said. Six months of milk, I’d been pumping since my baby was born, and a lactation consultant called and told me she’d pick it up, give it to a new mother who couldn’t breastfeed and was beside herself with worry. It was all marked, dated, so I put it in a freezer bag stuffed with ice packs and sent it off.” Does the woman know… “That it’s pop star milk? Nope!”

I first met Paloma 20 years ago. The child of a single mum from Hackney, she was finishing an MA in theatre direction and design, and working in a lingerie shop, and performing in a band, and it was obvious to everyone who came within six feet of her that she was going to be famous. It just wasn’t clear exactly how. She was a dancer then, and remembers one day at rehearsal the choreographer told everyone to go to lunch but asked her to stay. “Paloma,” he said, “you’re not that good, but it’s annoying, because my eye keeps being drawn to you.” She had something. She had something that didn’t quite have a name, a kind of magnetic joy. So, even though she wasn’t the best dancer, he said, he would make her the lead. But she’d have to work every hour she had, so she didn’t embarrass herself.

She took his advice, and never stopped. “We live in an age where mediocrity is celebrated, so I must be really good at it,” she cackles, her cockney accent buttery and familiar, a millennial Barbara Windsor. “I mean, I know loads of really talented people who don’t have careers like mine,” she gestures vaguely – three double platinum albums, Brit awards, a gaggle of top 10s, judge on talent show The Voice , film and telly actor, etc – but the difference is the work she puts in. “I leave parties early to carry on working, I have singing lessons, I have dialect coaching…” Which is why, she realises now, the pandemic was, “well, a bit of a relief”.

“I genuinely think that women in my industry, including me, have been working so hard, they haven’t been able to conceive. I know I couldn’t – I miscarried a lot.” It took six rounds of IVF for her to have her second baby. “And then everyone got pregnant during the lockdown. I think they had a bit more calm in their lives, a bit more time to have sex, a bit less stress. Jessie Ware, the Little Mix girls, Ellie Goulding – is that a coincidence? I doubt it.” It was when she had her first baby (there was much tabloid scandal because she decided not to announce its gender for a few months) that Paloma started talking about the sticky realities of being a working mother. “With birth,” she says, quiet for a second as she sips her tea, “comes a lot of death, doesn’t it? A feeling like you’re on the edge.”

A BBC documentary earlier this year, As I Am , followed her as she attempted to take her then-toddler on a world tour, and wrestled with struggles both specific and universal. “I don’t understand why I can’t have everything,” she tells the filmmaker between scenes about childcare budgets and crippling exhaustion, as her partner, an artist, recoils at her fame, and her management recoils at discussions of a second child. “If anyone can do it, it’s me.” By the end of the film it’s clear, no one can.

The reaction to the documentary was fast and often raw. “One woman stopped me in the street to say thank you, and she was like, ‘I don’t know why I’m crying. I just feel so understood.’” Lily Allen messaged her something similar, and the head of Sony Music called to apologise. “I don’t necessarily expect everyone to get it,” she stresses, “or be constantly understanding. I think that we as women also owe it to ourselves to try to articulate when we’re struggling. I know someone who’s got three kids, and had to homeschool them and work nights during lockdown, and was too scared to say to her boss that she had kids at all. It shouldn’t be this way!” Two things happened to her career when she became a mother. “Publicly, it suffered. When I look back at the trajectory I was on, I can see it went backwards. But actually, financially I did better than ever before. I became more efficient. It was literally making a nest for my little chicks, so I did what I had to do. Things that in the past I’d thought were too commercial, for example.”

She took a part as a series regular in Batman spin-off show Pennyworth , she did a car advert. “When I was growing up my mum worked till six, so every day after school I had an extracurricular activity, and that’s what I’m like now – I always have a side project, just in case my career ends tomorrow.” Her latest project, a line of bedding and wallpaper in maximalist designs, is affordable and quite delicious. “Everything becomes for your children. Even when I try to find my own happiness, it feels like it’s for them. I think working and having kids is particularly hard because there’s the layer of logistics, versus the layer of emotions. Do you get this – that you never feel… just OK?”

And beyond the logistics, with motherhood came a change in how she was perceived. “I’ve always been in denial of the emphasis on being sexy, but as soon as I had kids, I didn’t feel like I was sexually appealing any more, and suddenly I was less of a commodity. On social media, people comment things now like, ‘I think she’s hot, but it’s my guilty pleasure.’ What are you guilty about?” she huffs, camply. “Is it bad to fancy someone’s mum?”

When she first signed her record deal at 27, she lied about her age. It was when KT Tunstall was big, and, “Even the left-wing papers would say at 27, she was ‘coming late to music’. I decided I didn’t want that to be the only thing people spoke about, so I said I was 23. I’ve always looked a bit young – I was playing a 14-year-old in St Trinian’s at the time. So, yeah, I lied. And then, someone who obviously had very little else to do went to the public health records and submitted my birth certificate to Wikipedia.” She rolls her eyes. “The thing is, when I did it, I thought it was actually a feminist move!” She thought she’d do a gotcha when she became successful, spin out a wry comment on the media’s obsession with youth. “Eventually they stopped talking about my age in articles, but then I had kids and it’s back. Because now I’m 40, I’m a ‘middle-aged mum’. Instead of a Milf, which, of course, is what I really want to be.” Really? “I mean, I don’t want to sound desperate, Eva, but all I really want right now is for teenage boys to masturbate over my image.” And she cackles drainily.

Once, when she was working in the lingerie shop alone, a vile customer shouted at her. The person trying on underwear in the next changing room held her hand after he left, and asked about her life. She told Paloma she’d be a star. It was Beyoncé, of course. A couple of years later Prince decided to mentor her, insisting she join him to play at a secret gig on a housing estate, and surprising her by pulling a chair up to the side of the stage while she played a festival. Paloma’s showbiz stories are of the finest quality – organic, free-range, corn-fed. My favourite: at an awards ceremony she kept bumping into George Clooney in the loos and eventually asked him why he was in the toilets so regularly. “I told him, “I’ve got cystitis, what’s your excuse?’ And he replied, straight-faced, ‘I’m changing my colostomy bag.’”

Who are her fans today? “They’re multi-generational. My music is quite a family thing I think. They’re middle-everything. Aged, class, England,” she explains. It’s a bit surprising for me to see her audiences, having seen Paloma in her 20s, radical and dirty, performing at fetish club Torture Garden, dancing at burlesque nights, her laugh echoing across Soho at 3am. “Yeah, I suppose it is a bit unusual, but do you know what I think I am to them? Escapism.”

She finds her own kind of escapism today working in film. “There’s a lot more kindness and understanding about birth there, compared with the music world. The film world’s more advanced in terms of helping women work. In music, it feels hard. Though, it’s difficult to know how much pressure is coming from external sources, and how much is coming from me.”

Even before she had children, her attempts to do so impacted her in dark and uncomfortable ways. “When I miscarried on the set of Pennyworth during a fight scene, I remember being so glad to be at work, because I could just concentrate on something else. I didn’t tell anyone, just went off every little while to change my pad.” There was another time, filming The Voice , that she got into a small confrontation with fellow judge Boy George, and ran offset. “It was just some typically bitchy thing, but I couldn’t deal with the conflict – I had a panic attack. I blacked out. And because I was doing IVF at the time I was full of hormones; I had 14 eggs in me. Can you imagine what it feels like to have the equivalent of 14 periods at once? It was pretty intense.” She says even this with a grin.

In September she’ll tour her fifth album, Infinite Things , recorded in her basement during lockdown. Discussing it with Sony’s PR department, they asked what their marketing angle should be, “And I said, ‘Well, I taught myself how to produce, and did all my own vocal engineering, while looking after the kids and doing home schooling, so how about, ‘working mum’? They were like, ‘Hmm, everyone does that, it’s not an interesting angle.’” She snorts. “Everyone does that, right! And we shouldn’t be taking it for granted! We should be celebrating women for it. Who is it uninteresting to? The patriarchy! It’s a threat to their system, isn’t it?” So that’s the angle, despite what the press release says.

Pharrell Williams called Paloma a “perfect contradiction’, the combination of avant garde sensibilities, slick pop and mainstream popularity, the high glamour of her glittering showgirl persona and her daily updates on the pains of breastfeeding, love songs about the difficulties of a long-term relationship, the way she smiles through a story about miscarriage. “I’ve come to realise that when you work and also want a family there’s always conflict, and there’s always sacrifice. You can’t have it all. Me and my boyfriend jokily ask each other, ‘What are you going to have today, a shower or lunch?’” Today, she confirms, she showered. Thank you, I say. The last year has both bruised and boosted her, and as the August wind whips across the patio she sits up, steely now, and serious. “I’m not planning to change what I do,” she says. “But I am planning to change how I do it.”

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Paloma Faith on her heartbreak and being a single mum: ‘Our relationship ended because we had those children – it was worth it’

In her first in-depth interview since splitting from her partner of 10 years, the singer tells annabel nugent how her relationship split left her ‘broken’ but ‘whole’ and talks about her new album, dating and why co-parenting can equal ‘men not pulling their weight’, article bookmarked.

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O n her way to meet me, Paloma Faith receives a text message from her therapist. “Are you going to be OK today?” he asks her, concerned. Faith is relaying this snippet of her morning to me at the same time as she is patting away tears in her eyes with the corner of a white napkin. The answer, then, is no, not really. “God, I’ve never cried in an interview across my whole career,” the actor and musician laughs, blinking up from beneath her signature blonde bangs. This interview is not like others, though. It’s the first she has given since she split from her partner of 10 years – the first since she became a single mum.

Single mum: it’s a label her own mother wore but one she is still getting used to using herself. “I am a woman in my forties with two children, who is not with their dad any more.” Faith, who is 42, declares this statement slowly and carefully, as if she is sounding out the words for the billionth time but still finding them strange and foreign on her tongue. “I’m very much in the thick of adjusting to that fact. It takes a long time to recover because it’s not like when you’re young, you can’t cut your ties and run.” Her usual heartbreak remedies – “hop on a plane and do something erratic” – are out the window. “I’d need to arrange babysitting,” Faith laughs. But in all seriousness, her kids are the priority. On her middle finger is a chunky gold ring made up of three letters: M-U-M. “There’s very little time left for me, really. I don’t do much. I don’t allow myself much time for enjoyment.”

It is ironic, then, that Faith is such good fun to be around. And that her new album is such good fun to listen to – in spite of its subject matter. Glorification of Sadness is a divorce album without the divorce. “People think I’m married because they cannot believe that I’d have children with someone I’m not married to!” she exclaims, a trace of Southern belle theatricality coursing through her cockney accent. Wikipedia claims she married French visual artist Leyman Lahcine in a 2017 ceremony. Ring or no ring, the breakup hit her hard. She wrote songs to capture her state of mind: weak; strong; vengeful; despairing; euphoric; and self-destructive on the dancefloor. All things she still feels today, some 18 months after the split – hence the text from her therapist this morning.

Like Adele before her, Faith is something of a patron saint when it comes to heartache. Take a gander at her back catalogue, chock-full of hits with titles like “Can’t Rely on You”, “Picking Up the Pieces”, “Loyal”, and “Only Love Can Hurt Like This”. Big emotions have served her well; she has three double platinum albums, a stint on the judging panel of the talent show The Voice , a Brit award, telly credits, and film ones, too. Chronicling the end of her relationship on Glorification of Sadness , though, was different.

Naturally, she has been thinking about what caused the split. “People always ask, what did you do? What did he do? But it was a fundamental breakdown that we were both in control of saving or letting go.” In the end, they chose to let go. Faith can trace the beginning of the end to December 2016, when she became a mother to the first of their two daughters. “You either grow together, adapting to one another like expandable foam and filling the gaps where it’s empty – or one person grows and the other stays the same,” she says. “And I think for me, becoming a mother was such a massively life-changing experience that for the first time in my life, I needed more than nothing – and the expandable foam just wasn’t there.” Later, while gushing over her daughters, she tells me, “Our relationship ended because we have those children. And I think that was worth it.” A fair trade, I suggest. “Yes, well hopefully they won’t leave me!” she laughs. “They’ll probably tell me to f*** off someday.”

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There are celebrities with no filter, and then there is Faith, whose transparency has somehow endured the decade or so she has spent in an industry that fosters the opposite. Her laugh is a wonderful thing – or things, rather. There is the falsetto trill, the witchy cackle and the full-throated hoot. The latter has everyone within earshot at the members’ club where we meet craning their necks – wanting in on the joke.

Her vulnerability in person runs in contrast to the persona she has cultivated on stage. (The biggest misconception about her, she says, is that she is strong.) Any given performance, you will find Faith in full regalia – towering heels, and a flamboyant outfit, which is not always but often topped off with a fabulous headpiece – working the crowd with her wrist-curling gestures and confident east London charm.

More than once, stepping into character has given Faith refuge in hard times. “I have gone on stage while going through the most insane things that I have kept private,” she says. It’s like being unreachable on a plane. “Whatever’s going on off stage, I can’t do anything about it now because I’m providing a performance for these people.” In a similar vein, when she had a miscarriage on the set of HBO’s Pennyworth , a superhero spin-off about Batman’s butler, Faith emerged from the loo and carried on as normal. “I just told people I had a bad tummy,” she says. “What’s the difference? I tell the director; they send me home and I’m sat there bored out of my mind, thinking about it.”

The process gives her perspective, Faith says, and allows her not to be consumed by any one event. “I bet some people would call it a trauma response, like disassociating – but the good thing is it’s always there waiting for you when you want to go back and deal with it. It’s like a filing cabinet for trauma.”

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Faith would disassociate as a child, too. When her parents fought, which they did a lot, she would tune out and become absorbed in a film. They got divorced when she was two and the fallout has left a mark on Faith and dictated how she wants to handle her own separation. “I think that’s why my relationship with my kids’ dad is so good,” she says. “I remember my parents just hating each other and being witness to it, having to pass messages between them. We don’t have that – and I do think my children are really happy.” Their school was surprised to even learn of the split, she says. “We’re both emotionally intelligent enough to know that it’s important. It’s hard but we have to be on good terms, for our kids.”

I knew I would never just have one child and if I wasn’t as old as I am, I would have more

There are still teething issues. Faith is navigating the new worlds of dating and co-parenting. (She hates the latter and thinks it is a buzzword bandied about but not fulfilled by “men who aren’t pulling their weight”). Romantically, she has hit pause – although not before she embarked on a few misjudged dates. You see, Faith is what you would call a serial dater – self-professed. “I go from one to the next and I continued that pattern pretty much after my relationship broke up,” she says. “I think there was a bit of panic initially, of not wanting to be lonely and so you don’t necessarily attach to a good match. You just fill a vacancy without looking at their CV.” It wasn’t long, however, until Faith realised she couldn’t do that any more, not now she has kids.

And when she is ready to date, she will be uncompromising. “In some ways, the breakup has left me broken but in other ways, I’m so whole. I am financially stable. I own my own house. I have children. If I ever meet a man, I’m not going to need anything from him other than us just enriching one another’s lives.” That procreation impulse has been satisfied, she smiles, mostly. “I knew I would never just have one child and if I wasn’t as old as I am, I would have more.” Forty-two isn’t that old. “I don’t think I can, biologically. It feels like I’m a bit past it – but if I got pregnant, I’d have it.” What about adoption? “I did look into it but it’s quite a difficult process in the UK and also there is some concern if you’re in the public eye because it’s potentially not great for the child.”

Anyway, all these questions are for the future. “I’m at a place today at this moment, sitting in this chair with you where probably for the first time in my life, I am actually OK with being alone,” she says. “And I’ve never been alone.” Tomorrow, Faith jokes, she may feel differently.

Beyond the logistical nightmare of a breakup that involves kids, Faith is in the process of redefining who she is. The centrepiece of the album is a sumptuous, vocal-backed anthem called “Say My Name”, which sees Faith asserting herself on repeat. “My relationship was part of my identity and now I’m looking in the mirror not knowing who I am any more,” she says. “My outline has gone fuzzy, and I need to remember who I am as an individual person – not just from the perspective of a breakup but also as a mother. It’s a strange thing when you become a child’s mum because your identity shifts and occasionally, you’ll get glimpses of it back, but ultimately, you’re their mother and that’s paramount.”

I have one daughter who loves painting her nails and wearing pink and fairy wings, and I’ve got one who finds that all disgusting

Her own relationship with her mother is fantastic; they’re best friends. More than once, she recites pearls of wisdom her mum has given her over the years. “We’re not anti-men, we’re just disappointed!” is one such gem. Faith attributes her tireless work ethic to her mum. “I think it’s because my mum was a single parent and I felt any failure I had as a child would be judged as a reflection of her parenting,” she says. “So when I had learning difficulties, it always felt that people were concerned about my mum’s ability to parent, and I wanted to prove them wrong.” Faith left school with all A*s and went on to earn her master’s in theatre directing from Central Saint Martins. “Years ago, my mum was like, ‘It’s enough! I’m really proud!’” She laughs, “But I think it’s just become a habit.”

Outside the home, she is nervous about how the media will handle the breakup, which she subtly hinted at in August, including putting #singlemum in the caption to one of her Instagram posts. “I was scared to do it but I also felt it was important otherwise people would speculate and think I was being awful if they saw me with someone else,” she says. “Some publications can be a bit unhelpful.” Having come up as a young woman in the Noughties, a period notoriously cruel to young women, Faith has reason to be suspicious.

Has she found the media landscape is kinder now than when she was in her twenties? “I think they’ve found ways around it but it’s still the same,” she shrugs. “It’s like [she mentions a specific publication] will put a hideous picture of you up and say, ‘Here she is, blooming and beautiful!’ but they know the picture is awful. Then they can say they didn’t do anything bad while still putting a picture of you crying with six double chins.” There’s that laugh again.

It makes sense, then, that privacy has been so important to Faith ever since she gave birth in 2016. For a while, she chose not to reveal her daughter’s gender, a decision she made to protect her privacy – not, as was reported, a big statement about raising her child gender-neutral. Cue the furore. It was always strange, Faith says now, that people were angrier about the idea of a mother raising her child gender-neutral than the idea of a mother violating her child’s privacy. “And one of my kids might still end up being trans,” she says. Faith, like her mum before her, doesn’t believe in gender-specific play. “I have one daughter who loves painting her nails and wearing pink and fairy wings, and I’ve got one who finds that all disgusting,” she smiles. “She’s kind of cynical in an old soul kind of way.”

Rishi Sunak should be ashamed of himself. I think a person who does what he did is not a leader

Faith has always brought an unapologetic authenticity to her career, in her music and beyond. Growing up in a multicultural family (her stepdad is Chinese; her dad is Spanish), differences were something “to be celebrated or curious about rather than demonised”. What others see as political statements, she says, is her merely showing a bit of empathy. “For me, it’s not about shouting about my opinion. It’s just me going, ‘What are you talking about? That’s wrong.’” Take Rishi Sunak, for example. Days earlier, at the Tory party conference, the prime minister came out with the transphobic declaration that “a man is a man, and a woman is a woman, it’s just common sense”.

“I’ve spoken about how I feel responsible in my position to set a good example, and Rishi Sunak is so irresponsible,” Faith says. “Whatever his opinions are, which I do not agree with categorically , but if he’s got those opinions, [voicing them like that] is irresponsible and inflammatory and it’s inciting violence. He should be ashamed of himself. I think a person who does what he did is not a leader.” Recently one of Faith’s stylists, a transgender woman, was late for a fitting. Everyone’s mind went to the worst-case scenario. “There was no discussion as to whether she missed the bus or slept in; we all were worried she had been attacked because that’s what we’re dealing with right now.” Hate crimes against transgender people hit a record high in England and Wales last year, with the Home Office report stating that comments by politicians and media over the last year may have led to the increase.

There is a prevailing sense that Faith was always a bit ahead of the times in this way. In 2013, it became front-page news when a fan uncovered that Faith was not 23 as she had publicly claimed but was, in fact, 27. Faith pulled the stunt because she knew how older – if you can even call 27 “older” – women were treated in the industry. Today, the same act would likely be recognised as a feminist statement; back then, she was hung out to dry as a rotten liar. “Somebody called me from my record company today actually and said, ‘Well you know everyone’s woke now,’ and I said, ‘I’ve been woke my whole life. I don’t know what you’re talking about,’” she laughs. Read past interviews with Faith and you’ll find her described as “kooky” more times than you can count. Today, it jars as an anachronistic term once used to describe women who were outspoken and funny. “It was irritating as hell, and misogynistic,” she says. “Zany” was another.

Faith feels that “we’re part of a generation of generally quite unsatisfied women”. She sees feminism as still in transition. “People are under the illusion that it’s completed but actually the burden on women is tenfold because of feminism at the moment,” she says. “You’ve got to be empowered, you’ve got to be good-looking, you’ve got to be young, you’ve got to earn your own money, you’ve got to raise your kids and go to work. Actually, we’re doing more than men and I think that’s not fair.”

As is the case with any breakup, reflecting on it comes with a danger. “Nostalgia is a killer,” she huffs. “You only remember the good and then you can’t help but think maybe I should have sat in unhappiness for longer.” Glorification of Sadness , with its encompassing and unsparing documentation of heartbreak, is a handy reminder not to be fooled – if not for Faith herself, then for others going through the same loss.

Suddenly, Faith has to run; her nanny has texted and she needs to get back to the kids, but not before she imparts a little hard-earned wisdom. “Don’t settle,” she grins at me, a sparkle glinting from inside her mouth; it’s coming from a diamante glued to her incisor. “Make sure you wait for the magic.” Just as she is leaving, Faith turns back around. “And have kids early! When you get to my age, you’re old and tired!”

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Paloma Faith 'devastated' as she's forced to cancel major tour date

Paloma Faith has revealed she's been forced to cancel the London date of her UK tour after being diagnosed with laryngitis which has left her unable to sing

• 14:53, 17 Apr 2024
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Paloma Faith has had to cancel a landmark event in her career.

The songstress has taken to Instagram to share her regret with fans after she received medical advice urging her to rest her voice. Paloma told her followers that she was "physically unable to sing" after contracting a virus which led to laryngitis. In an address to her online followers, she said: "It is with great regret that I have had to postpone my show tonight in London.

"My team are working on a date to re-schedule the show and as soon as that is set I will let you all know. I have been diagnosed with laryngitis caused by a virus and I am physically unable to sing." "So far the tour has been one of the greatest experiences of my career," she said.

The Better Than This singer continued: "I am utterly devastated, performing for you all is my favourite thing in the world . I also want to acknowledge those of you that flew in from other countries or travelled long distances. I am very very sad and very sorry. It's been taken out of my hands, I have been told I must listen to the medical professionals, so that I am able to return to perform for you, without causing long term damage.

"We will know in the next 24hrs if I am able to continue with Cardiff & Brighton. All my love. Paloma xx." But Paloma also had a very clear warning to fans when she discovered some tickets are still being sold for the gig. "That might be touts, steer clear," she said.

Her post was soon flooded with comments from fans sending their love and best wishes to Paloma. One penned: "I'm very sad to hear this, but of course you must do what's best. I know you're disappointed. Take care of yourself always." A second penned: "You wouldn’t cancel unless you had to! Get well soon."

"Take care of your health ! We can wait! We love you so much," commented another. Meanwhile, a fourth sympathetic fan penned: "Awh I hope you get better soon, your health comes first and we all know you wouldn’t cancel if it wasn’t necessary. Sending love."

Speaking previously to the Mirror , the singer who has performances at the likes of Thetford Forest as part of Forest Live and Margate Summer Series coming up said of touring: "It's my favourite thing to do," she said of touring, before saying: "It's the reason why I do this job, being on stage, connecting with people who are there to see me and sing my songs with me.

"It's just the most privileged situation to be in and the only time I'm not anxious, weirdly. I find life quite overwhelming, daily life, on stage, I never feel overwhelmed, I feel like I'm in my right place, I'm really looking forward to it."

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Gearing up for another monumental chapter, British superstar  Paloma Faith  returns with the release of her brand new single and video ‘ How You Leave A Man.’  Paloma shared the news of her new album and inspiration with a personal note to her fans letting them know she was “...Looking forward to sharing this new era.”

She excitedly heralds the highly anticipated album with new song ‘ How You Leave A Man ’, offering fans a taste of what to expect from the upcoming new album.   It has ALL the makings of a new era of Paloma. It’s confident. It’s cinematic. It’s empowering. It’s compelling from beginning to end, all powered by the kind of anthems that transformed her into an icon. The single is about finding the confidence to walk away from a relationship and being empowered with your own happiness, its limitless expression of pop allows it to sit comfortably next to Paloma’s many chart successors and then some.

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PALOMA Faith revealed she is "utterly devastated" as she cancelled a gig tonight just hours before showtime.

The Brit pop star's London show at the Eventim Apollo won't go ahead after she developed laryngitis - an inflammation of the voice box.

The decision to cancel wasn't taken lightly, and she acknowledged fans had travelled from around the world to watch the concert.

In a statement, she said: "It is with great regret that I have had to postpone my show tonight in London.

"My team are working on a date to re-schedule the show and as soon as that is set I will let you all know. I have been diagnosed with laryngitis caused by a virus and I am physically unable to sing.

"So far the tour has been one of the greatest experiences of my career.

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"I am utterly devastated, performing for you all is my favourite thing in the world. I also want to acknowledge those of you that flew in from other countries or travelled long distances.

"I am very very sad and very sorry. It's been taken out of my hands, I have been told I must listen to the medical professionals, so that I am able to return to perform for you, without causing long term damage.

"We will know in the next 24hrs if I am able to continue with Cardiff & Brighton. All my love. Paloma xx."

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One person commented: "Oh poor you Paloma. So sad we won’t see you tonight but hope you get better very, very soon!

Another said: "Get well soon Paloma. You were incredible in Blackpool."

A third shared: "Sending so much love I know how hard this must be but look after yourself first always."

Just last week Paloma admitted it could be time for a career change - just two months after the release of her latest top 10 album The Glorification Of ­Sadness.

She told Jamie Laing's Great Company podcast: “My mum’s always telling me I need to train to be a teacher.

“She’s like, ‘You’ve had kids, you’ve done the pop star thing. Go and do PGCE [teacher training] because then you can have the same holidays as your kids’. I’m considering it. I just might put one more record out.”

During the chat, Paloma also opened up about the stress of ­releasing new albums and said she isn’t scared of being let go by her label.

She said: “Every time I get towards putting an album out, I think, ‘This is the end’.

“But now everyone’s independent, so it’s quite cool if you get dropped.”

Her first album in four years followed a difficult period in Paloma's personal life, including her split from longtime partner Leyman Lahcine .

In an exclusive chat, Palomatold the Sun: “I was so broken, honestly — I think I had a nervous breakdown.

“I was so broken that my brain didn’t even work in that way of being conscious. It is difficult for me to remember much of it because I was so sad and full of guilt and shame.”

Since the relationship ended in 2022, the pair have been co-parenting their two children.

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Paloma explained: “You have to see your ex all the time. You can’t just say, ‘This is too painful’.

“We are conflict-adverse so we were both quick to try and be amicable and, as with most things in life, if you pretend it for long enough it becomes true.”

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After a shock cancellation hours before the concert, Paloma Faith has postponed even more gigs as her health took a turn.

The 42-year-old singer was ‘devastated’ to cancel her London gig as a sudden health crisis leaving her unable to sing as she completely lost her voice.

She has been diagnosed with laryngitis and explained the decision was ‘out of [her] hands’ as medical professionals insisted she stop the show on April 17.

Paloma is midway through her tour and has now been forced to scrap the next concert in Cardiff on Friday, confirmed by the Utilita Arena Cardiff on X.

The announcement stated that Paloma had decided to postpone the show but ‘ticket holders should retain their tickets as they will be valid for the new show date.’

The Brighton Centre, where she is set to perform on Saturday, told Metro.co.uk decisions are being made on a day-by-day basis as her health is monitored.

Paloma is intending to perform at the weekend but will confirm on Friday, however, this may be optimistic as laryngitis can take up to two weeks to clear.

Laryngitis is where your vocal cords or voice box become swollen and irritated, impacting your ability to speak and sing.

She announced on Instagram that she would not be performing her Cardiff date, prompting an outpouring of support as fans became concerned for the star.

‘Hope you’re okay Paloma. You probably feel so upset and disappointed but everyone just wants you to feel better xxx,’ commented Lisa.

‘Hope you’re ok ❤️❤️❤️,’ added Charlotte Stirling-Reed as Sarah Jane Kiddell added: ‘Big love to you Paloma, health comes first xxx’

‘You need to look after you first and foremost, sending you love ❤️❤️❤️,’ shared Esther Tudor.

In her updated post, Paloma revealed she was now on vocal rest with ‘steaming, gargling, and even a steroid injection’ to beat the illness.

‘This is the worst thing to have to do and I can’t apologise enough,’ she added and joked:

Taking to Instagram, Paloma wrote: ‘It is with great regret that I have had to postpone my show tonight in London.’

The Only Love Can Hurt Like This hitmaker assured fans that they understand the impact of this last minute cancellation and were attempting to find a solution.

She added: ‘My team are working on a date to re-schedule the show and as soon as that is set I will let you all know. I have been diagnosed with laryngitis caused by a virus and I am physically unable to sing.

‘So far the tour has been one of the greatest experiences of my career. I am utterly devastated, performing for you all is my favorite thing in the world. I also want to acknowledge those of you that flew in from other countries or traveled long distances. I am very very sad and very sorry,

‘It’s been taken out of my hands and I have been told I must listen to the medical professionals so that I am able to return to perform for you, without causing long term damage.

We will know in the next 24hrs if I am able to continue with Cardiff and Brighton, All my love Paloma xxx.’

Apologising again, the star captioned her post: ‘London – I’m so sorry x’

She is set to perform numerous more tour dates across the UK before heading to Glastonbury’s famed Pyramid Stage in June .

Earlier this month, the New York singer shared that she suffers from stress-induced alopecia which she described as her body ‘eating itself’.

On an episode of  Great Company with Jamie Laing , she shared: ‘If I’m stressed at work, it doesn’t fall out but if it’s emotional, my hair starts falling out.’

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Pop superstar Paloma Faith is back, returning with the unapologetic ‘How You Leave a Man’, a zero-tolerance barn-burner about not sticking with the monotony of domesticity, wherein she suggests packing your bags and driving off into the sunset, ideally accompanied by violins and a distorted guitar solo.

Since the release of her last album ‘Infinite Things’ in 2020, Paloma split from her partner of nine years and father to her two children. As documented in the acclaimed 2021 BBC documentary, As I Am,  which showed the brutal realities of being a mother and a pop star, the challenges of being a single mother and a pop star are even starker.

Paloma’s ferocious sixth album, ‘ The Glorification of Sadness’ , is a deeply personal record that turns over these feelings by taking a chronological journey through the cracking of an adult relationship, and with it a family. There are no conclusions, just empathetic questions from an artist obsessed with interrogating the status quo and upending assumptions. (Plus one petulant rager called, brilliantly, Eat Sh*t and Die. )

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Beacon Hall

at Bristol Beacon

Getting to the venue

Location: Beacon Hall is located within Bristol Beacon. Head to Level 1 and follow signs to find the auditorium.

Address: Bristol Beacon, Trenchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5AR

Bicycle racks can be found in front of the main entrance on Trenchard Street, Colston Street, and on the city centre promenade. Find your nearest cycle routes using Cycle Planner .

Car parking

Trenchard Street multi-storey car park is 200m away, directly behind Bristol Beacon.

  Bristol Clean Air Zone

Bristol Beacon is inside the Bristol Clean Air Zone. Check if your vehicle will be charged and how much you’ll have to pay.

Most bus services stop in and around the city centre promenade, 250m from Bristol Beacon.

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Spaces for wheelchair users are in:

• row S in the centre of the rear Stalls (10 spaces)
• row Z in the left and right wings at the back of Lower Tier (4 spaces, 2 on each side),
• rows G/H on the left only at the back of Upper Tier (2 spaces)

Assistance Dogs

Assistance dogs and emotional support animals are allowed in the performance space. Seats in row F are most suitable. If you prefer, you can leave your animal with a member of staff during the performance.

Hearing Facility

A Sennheiser MobileConnect assistive listening system is installed in the venue. Download the free App and use your own mobile device and headphones to listen to the performance. (Devices are available on request.)

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Eat & Drink

We’ve got plenty of places for you to relax and refill. From coffee and cake, to delicious sharing boards, to full menus.

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