Birdy

The word 'special' gets used so carelessly that we often no longer hear it, but then every so often something comes along to give it new meaning. Something like Birdy.

In the last six months, more than ten million people have clicked on YouTube to see this 15-year-old from the New Forest perform. It's hard to believe that such a pure, powerful voice can come from such a tiny frame, or that such raw, deep emotion can be expressed by someone so young. But mostly, what all these new fans recognise is that Birdy is something increasingly rare and precious: a unique new voice, and a musician who can take even a familiar song, and make it all her own.

When her parents fed her as ...

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