Gabrielle Aplin

Having been bought her first guitar age 11, Aplin, influenced by Joni Mitchell and Bruce Springsteen, soon found a musical outlet for her creativity. During her studies at the City of Bath College, Aplin participated in recordings the college’s label BA1 Records, before earning a considerable fan base for her enticing covers of artitsts such as You Me at Six, Cee Lo Green and Bon Iver on her YouTube channel.

In 2010 Aplin made an appearance on the local radio station BBC Wiltshire ahead of her debut 5-tack EP entitled “Acoustic”, which later reached the Top 25 in the UK iTunes album chart. From the release, the song “Reverse” featured on the E4 TV show “Made in Chelsea”, exposing the musician to a new and young audience.

Aplin released her sophomore EP “Never Fade” in May 2011 and introduced a wider variety of instruments and sounds, including a notable folk influence. In support of the EP Aplin performed four songs for BBC Introducing at the revered Maida Vale Studios, including the highly-popular cover of Coldplay’s “Fix You”. A third EP “Home” by the singer-songwriter arrived in January 2012 and cemented Aplin’s position as a new and young British talent and featured the title single “Home”, which featured on the BBC One TV drama “Prisoner’s Wives”.

In February 2012 Aplin signed with Parlophone Records and was the featured artist on the 2012 John Lewis Christmas Advert with her cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “The Power of Love”. Ahead of her debut album, Aplin released her major label single “Please Don’t Say You Love Me” in early 2013. Her full-length debut “English Rain” arrived in shortly after and charted at No. 2 in both the UK and Scottish album charts. The singer launched her own record label Never Fade Records in 2012 as an outlet for her own songs as well as other similar artists, and has since signed welsh act Hannah Grave and Saint Raymond.