Manchester based songstress Natalie Blooms is an original, eccentric artist, talented vocalist and songwriter who has always written songs to communicate her feelings and thoughts about life.
Her voice and songs were discovered by two families who got her singing regularly at church and her first gig in Manchester where Natalie took to the stage with her guitar and finally shared her hidden songs.
Commanding the crowd with her warm, fiesty, rebellious raw and infectious voice and persona she later has gone on to perform with her backing band at various high profile venues and gigs in and around Manchester and London including The Roadhouse, The Ruby Lounge, MOHO supporting Bez from the Happy Mondays, Night and Day, KRO, The Blue Cat Café and Monkey Chews for NME and Q Magazine acclaimed nights such ‘Friends of Mine’ and ‘Ear Music’.
Natalie aims to achieve acclaim, gig the world and become a threlanthropist like Dolly Parton.
Natalie’s distinctive, warm, rich vocals are evocative showing she has a serious appreciation of soul, jazz, blues and pop heroes as well as song writing greats. Her vocal influences include Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson, Young Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf, Lauren Hill, Etta James, Elvis, Joss Stone, Louis Armstrong and Nina Simone. Her song writing influences include Dolly Parton, Carole king, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchel, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Sade, Alisha Keys and Nikka Costa to name but a few.
Lyrically fresh and uncompromising Natalie writes about life in an honest raw, bold, quirky and often humorous cheeky way.
“(Natalie Blooms) plays soulful jazz with a blues twinge…(and is) already building up good word-of-mouth, playing in and around south Manchester and further afield”. Susannah Wright, South Manchester Reporter.
Natalie will be performing alongside her full band in the evening at Matt and Phreds!
