Polly Paulusma

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Polly Paulusma is a critically acclaimed, English singer-songwriter. In recent years, Paulusma has toured with the likes of Bob Dylan, Coldplay, Gary Jules, Jamie Cullum, Joseph Arthur, and Marianne Faithfull.

Throughout her 20s, Paulusma flirted with a number of occupations, from scholar (she embarked on a PhD after graduation from Cambridge University) to novelist (she was talented enough to bag a literary agent). But raised on a diet of Joni Mitchell and Carole King, music was always Paulusma’s first love. She wrote her first song aged ten, but it took 18 years of denial before she finally listened to her heart and recorded her debut album.

“Music had always been part of my life,” she says. “I’d been in bands, writing songs all along, but I’d just been doing it for the hell of it. It never crossed my mind to try and do it properly.”

It wasn’t until she recorded backing vocals for friends Ben & Jason’s last album that the penny finally dropped. “I had one of these earth shattering moments when I suddenly realised that everything I was doing was wrong and that I should be doing this instead,” she says. “It was like I got hit with an electric current – maybe I did – it was a pretty lo-fi studio so there was always that possibility! I just started crying. I thought, oh buggery fuck, here we go again.”
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  • rojaljelly

    My most loved female artist!!!!

    last month
  • kainge

    Great stuff!

    December 2011
  • folkdevil

    I adore Polly and all her songs. I think she and her husband and children have moved to Canada to do some new stuff. Hope she will come back to making albums again one day. Check out the Guitar Shop Tour videos on youtube (I have compiled them into a playlist!)

    November 2011
  • geeluv

    wow, lovely work!!!!

    March 2011
  • sandie-cheeks

    Magnificent artist, and voice. Another album, please :)

    March 2010
  • bascuuu

    way to good for opening concerts...

    March 2010
  • supermanexist

    qué bella voz c:!

    August 2009
  • spelunkoddishes

    wow! she is amazing

    July 2009
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End of the year.....

12 Dec 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/pollypaulusma

Hello everyone. I'm glad this year is winding up. It's been one of consolidation, the kind of year I know one has to do every now and again but the kind I find most boring. We had to find a …

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