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" I think this is really good."
Bob Harris BBC Radio 2
"Surely one of the finest female Country voices you'll ever hear"
Phoenix FM
"There isn't a weak song on A Thousand Shores"
Maverick Magazine
Ayesha is a Welsh born singer songwriter and musician, who also lived in New Zealand, Australia & America growing up.
With influences such as Dwight Yoakam, Eagles, Martina McBride, Keith Urban, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks and Sheryl Crow,
she writes, composes, produces and plays keys on original music that falls somewhere between the cracks of Country, Rock
and Americana.
At 16, was the first international student of the Country Music Association of Australia's Songwriters College in Tamworth, of which Keith Urban is a member.
Whist there, she was mentored in songwriting and performance by Pam Tillis, daughter of Mel Tillis.
She has performed at Country Festivals throughout the U.K and the world including Tamworth's Country Music festival, second in size only to Nashville's Fanfare.
She is an artist that has truly tread the boards, playing in bands in the bars and honky tonks of Florida and Nashville as well as her native U.K.
.
In Nashville, she struck up a friendship with Caitlin Evanson, who would go on to become Taylor Swifts fiddle player, as well as a tremendous songwriter in her own right. Caitlin's bravery was an inspiration that stayed with Ayesha when she moved back to Wales.
She set her sights on recording an album of her own.
But returning from Nashville broke and 19, she couldn't afford an album right away, so she made a demo as cheaply as possible, calling in favours from friends and with some much appreciated help from local musicians "The Story's" band. The Story's were a force to be reckoned with at the time, supporting Elton John and Celine Dion, and developing a friendship with BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris, who loved their band and supported their projects on his Radio shows. It was through them that Ayesha would meet Bob and share the demo she was working on with him.
Ayesha was driving home from a gig one night listening to the Bob Harris show when, out of the blue, he played a song from the unfinished demo, sandwiched in between Jackson Browne and Van Morrison.
"...Which continues to be an honour as I really didn't think it was ready!.."
" think this is really good." Bob Harris
"Hearing my unfinished song on one of my hero's radio shows gave me the feeling that I did have something to offer and I worked really hard singing in bands and bars until I could afford to make an album.
My family had moved around so much while I was growing up that I found it hard to belong anywhere. So I learned to
belong evervwhere. Music gave me a way to belong."
