Interestingly describing her sound as "musical mashed potatoes", VV Brown - also
a model - rocketed to fame in 2009 when the press widely touted her as the
female sound of 2009 with Little Boots and Lady GaGa, after a series of high
profile shows - including Glastonbury Festival and the Teenage Cancer Trust
concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. The eldest of six children born to a
Jamaican mother and a Puerto Rican father, Brown studied classical music and
jazz piano and turned down offers of places at various top universities
(including Oxford) to devote herself to a career in ...