ABOUT

Livvy Clarke is a neo soul singer songwriter who has been likened to some of her musical heroines: Angie Stone, India Arie and Tracy Chapman. Her songs are emotional, thought provoking and give us an insight into her life story. After years of running away from her urge to write music, it took her daughter becoming disabled and watching her nearly die, to finally reach for her go-to coping mechanism of putting pen to paper.

Livvy says, “Writing to me is akin to a bodily function, it’s better out than in.” Her third single, Enough is a song about saying goodbye to her mother, knowing she would never see her again. She admits she was both surprised and frustrated with herself for having panic attacks recording the vocals, and vowed thereafter to write only about things that didn’t hit so hard. However a few months later she released The Way You Are, a song about surviving an abusive relationship.

Livvy has been working on a project run by The Songwriting Academy and has teamed up with Julian Hinton, a renowned songwriter, arranger and producer. The product of this, “Love Letter”, is a celebration of the life that Livvy has managed to carve out for herself despite a chaotic past. She is very excited: “Normally I write about serious stuff, but this was a chance to write a happy song, who knows, it could be catching!”