Carrie Hayden's BBC Introducing session on stage at the Worcester Music Festival 2010

Carrie Hayden was born in Worcestershire in 1985, and began writing music on an out of tune piano at the age of 14.

She took a two year performing arts diploma and managed to find a place in the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), Paul McCartney's old school.

Taking her influence from Tracy Champman, Sherl Crow and the Beatles among others, Carrie has been compared to Toni Mitchell and Carole King.

Though currently unsigned, her debut album, 'Yuka', was launched in the West Midlands on 4 May 2009. It was BBC Hereford & Worcester's Friday Session 'Gig Of The Week' on 1 May.

Now based in Liverpool, she regularly holds her own acoustic night, 'Mocha's Sunday's', highlighting some of the city's newest singers and songwriters.

After sending her album off to the powers-that-be, Carrie landed the opportunity to support The Human League in London in August 2009.