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Early Life
Duncan was born in 1988 in Croydon, Surrey, England. Her mother is Jamaican and her father half English, half Greek. [2] She moved to Nottingham in 1991 where she grew up. [3] She displayed a keen interest in music as a baby and at age 3 composed her first original tune on a tiny toy keyboard. She commenced piano lessons at age 5, and preferring to learn by ear rather than by conventional sight reading, she pursued the ABRSM Jazz Piano syllabus, obtaining her grade 5 qualification when she was 14. [4] Her musical influences were quite eclectic, her father had an extensive record collection with a large black music content, as a young child she listened to classical music on The Magical Music Box, she was taken to see Jools Holland and his Big Band on her 11th birthday, while all the time listening to a wide array of music of her choice. Natalie first sang in public at age 10 in Junior school and at age 15 won the year 11 music competition at her secondary school singing and playing an Alicia Keys cover. She had also been writing her own songs from quite an early age. She left school to attend Clarendon College in Nottingham where she obtained a BTEC in music.