The singer, 35, on stunning Scottish nature, music in Zambia, meeting her partner and receiving an MBE
The 80s weren’t easy for my parents. My mum is English and Dad is from Zambia, where he’d been a top engineer, but he couldn’t find work after moving to the UK – he was a window cleaner for a while. It was an honourable job, but he was always trying to find a way out.
Scottish nature is stunning. We moved to Aberdeenshire when I was four and at weekends we’d take a picnic and an inflatable boat to the River Don. You take those moments for granted as a kid.
