Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

I'd done an EP, and nothing came from that, and I didn't know where to go from there.

My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.

Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.