Louise Golbey

Louise Golbey is a British singer, songwriter, and musician.

Louise Golbey
Louise Golbey
Background information
Born	London, England
Genres	Soul, R'n'B, pop , UK Soul
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, musician
Years active	2004–present
Website	louisegolbey.com

Golbey grew up in a musical family. Her grandfather played classical violin. Her uncle plays piano and her mother sings. Brought up in Bournemouth, she moved back to her home city after university to pursue a music career.[1]

Her first album, Novel (2015) was mixed and mastered by Drew 'Beats' Horley and included special guests Omar and Morris Pleasure and featured one track produced by grammy awards winning producer Aamir Yaqub Rihanna 's Unapolgetic album.

She has played at London venues such as Ronnie Scotts, the London Hippodrome, and The Jazz Café. She has performed in France (Musique Cordiale Festival, Provence) and Germany (Cascadas Bar in Hamburg), at the Glastonbury Festival via BBC Introducing,[2] the Isle of Wight Festival,[3] and the London Jazz Festival. She was the opening act for George Benson at Kenwood House Picnic Concert and supported the Stylistics on their UK tour.[4][5]

She has worked on tracks with Example and Newham Generals and has shared the stage with Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Anthony David, Roy Ayers, Katy B, Paloma Faith, Mr Hudson, Lianne La Havas, Omar, Alexander O'Neal, Heatwave (band) Kenny Thomas, En Vogue, Dexter Wansel and Eric Benet.

And in September 2019 she performed at The Electric Soul Festival in London's 02 Arena supporting Kool and The Gang , Brand New Heavies, Level 42 and Heather Small.

Her music video for "How It Is" (which she also recorded in French) was nominated in the UK Music Video Awards. She was chosen as Caffe Nero Artist of the Month following Jack Savoretti. Her latest single 'Different' was co-written with a produced by Dan Dare (aka Slang) who has worked with the likes of Giggs, Charli XCX, Wiley, Gavin James and Marina and The Diamonds to name a few. Louise also co-wrote and sang the theme tune for UK comedy series 'Sex, Lattes and Hideous Dates' for Amazon Prime.

In 2020, as well as working on her second album with single release 'Scarlet Woman' produced by Mafro W (guitarist for Ghetts & Shakka, she is currently writing with Rob Davis (grammy award winning co-writer of Can't Get You Out Of My Head for Kylie Minogue and writing toplines for Eurovision 2021. Louise has also started a podcast called 'What You Didn't Know About...' where she interviews some of the top UK songwriters about their songwriting process and meanings behind their most successful songs. So far she has interviewed Ivor Novello winning songwriter Michelle Escoffery (Truce), Omar, Fiona Bevan and Rob Davis