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Deighton, Rosalie
4+ albums
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The music industry conjures up its own fair share of extraordinary tales but very few are as salient and memorable as Rosalie Deighton's. Born in Holland to an Indonesian mother and a British father, Rosalie has been playing music since the age of three and she and her family moved to Barnsley, Yorkshire when she was just eight. The Deighton Family were musicians and already successful practitioners of an eclectic range of bluegrass, Cajun, country and folk with Rosalie and her four brothers and sisters very much part of this musical entourage. Rosalie played spoons, then mandolin, before finally contributing vocals and her own song-writing skills to a repertoire that featured on five albums released on the Green Linnet and Rounder labels. The Deighton Family toured the world but as Rosalie confesses "at the age of thirteen I knew I had to do it on my own". There was a minor diversion as Rosalie and sister Kathleen collaborated with Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts (amongst others) to record an album called Intuition in 1993, but by 1995 The Deighton Family groove had come to a graceful end and Rosalie found herself contemplating the possibilities of a glittering future. Which is where this story really begins and truth becomes stranger than fiction. Unsurprisingly, Rosalie soon signed a recording and development deal with EMI but it should come as no surprise to anyone that the people who signed her to the label didn't stay around long enough to watch her finish making a re