Charlotte Young is an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful vocals. She rose to fame in the early 2010s with her band The Red Roses and their debut album Petals. The album was a commercial success, peaking at #1 in the UK. Young struggled with drug and alcohol abuse for a period of time in 2011-2012 but sought help and has been sober since early 2013. She is currently working on new music and preparing to perform at festivals in 2014.

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of Leon, The XX and Alt J. It was produced by Mark James and co- producted by Ross
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Born on August 28, 1986 in Northwood, England, Charlotte Young was raised in a family of writers and performers. She took to music at an early age and created her
own band, which she named the red roses. The band met with success beginning in 2010, and became famous a few years later with their debut album, Petals (2012). On
the album, Young’s voice can be heard on popular songs such as “Kiss my poison” and “Life without you.” In 2012.
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ome of Young’s talents came from her
father, Edward, an artists and a musician
who was himself a musical performer in
his 20s. Young’s mother, Jane, a journalist
and artist, also influenced her daughter, but in
quite a different way. Young said in an article in
GRANITE Magazine that a lecture of her mother’s impressed her and inspired her to aspire to
make music with “some of the big themes—sex,
death, love and violence.
Young’s big break came in December 2012.
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Drunk at the Soho Revue Bar in London, Young
cornered host Mary Nash—of the DJ duo
Queens of Noise—in the bathroom and sang to
her “Something’s Got a Hold on Me.” A week
later, the Queens of Noise invited Young back to
open for their club night.
“She belted it out, and I was thinking, ‘Oh ... my
... God,’” Nash told The Telegraph in a June 2012
article. “I had literally never heard anyone with
such a powerful voice ever. I turned to [DJ
partner Tabitha Denholm] and said, ‘I have to
manage her.’”
The red roses initially consisted of Young, her
friend Isabella “White” Summers and a drum
kit and ended up becoming a seven-piece band
by 2011. In 2010, Welch recorded with the band
Asworth, which released an album with the
earliest version of her song “Happy Slappy”—
later renamed “Kiss my poison”—and made a
hit. Shortly after the release of the album, Young
resigned from Asworth.
After signing up with Nash, Charlotte Young
rose to fame. The band released its debut album,
Petals, in the United Kingdom in July 2012 and
met great success, peaking at No. 1 in the United
Kingdom and at No. 2 in Ireland. When it was
released for download in the United States several weeks later, the album debuted at No. 17 on
the BillboardHeat seekers Album chart.
“Kiss My poison,” released as the album’s lead
single, was featured on a number of film and
television series soundtracks. A number of the
band’s other singles were also used as theme
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songs or featured in several American television shows, including Grey’s Anatomy
and So You Think You Can Dance.
The band itself made an appearance in
a 2013
episode
of Gossip
Girl.
An article
in The
Sunday
Times of
London
called
Young
the “most
popular
and most
highly
acclaimed
female
singer
of the
moment:
poetic, literate, and hurricane-voiced.” It
went on to say that Young is “a fabulous
artist that is becoming more known each
day”.
Music was a big part of Young’s life she
loved it. Every second she had on the
stage she performed immensely like no
was watching. Her voice recovered and
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much I can teach to a man that knows it
all about music and producing. From a
young age, Young started working on the
skills for which we know and love her today. From the age of five years she started
playing
the piano, she
wrote
her first
ballad
at the
age of
12 years
and performed
at local
open
mic
nights
from the
age of 14
years.
a vast
“Young didamountand
signiicant
of
touring while recoring
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for her album petels
In the midst of writing music for The
Roses new album in early 2011, Young
was offered the chance to travel to Los
Angeles to work with producers and writers of American rock music. Although
she was tempted at first, Young changes
her mind, saying, “No. No. No. No. No! I
can’t do that. This is too weird. I can’t just
suddenly leave behind everything that
made Petals,”
Instead, the band made its second studio
album Ceremonials, which included
tracks by Loving, Tom Odell, James
Blake, James Hills and composer White
Smith, and was released in October 2013.
A video for album track “What this life
gave” was released on iTunes as a buzz
single and on Young’s VEVO channel on
YouTube: It drew 1.5 million views in two
days.
Young did a significant amount of
touring while writing and recording for
Ceremonials, which was released in 2013
In January 2013, Young worked with the
singer Daughter on material for her upcoming record, and in July 2013, suffered
a vocal injury that caused her to cancel
two European festival performances,
Young said, “It finally happened, I’ve lost
my voice. Seriously, I felt something snap,
it was very frightening.”
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in August 2013 Young decided to play
gigs in small venues; selling her tickets
at extremely affordable prices. Young
told GRANITE ‘’I felt awful, I shouldn’t
be cancelling on my fans, they’ve spend
money to come and see me perform, and
I wasn’t even there’’. Currently writing
a song with Daughter, Young is very
excited about playing at Reading festival
in 2014. She can’t wait; she uses to attend
the festival herself when she was growing up. Young told GRANITE ‘’When I
found out I was performing at Reading I
nearly cried, loads of my favourite bands
are performing there; I’ll be performing
on the same stage. It’s just shocking how
far I’ve come this past year’’. My friends
and family
have been
so supportive and
it really
helps!
Without
them I
don’t think
I would’ve been so confident and successful. My mum and father are my two
biggest fans and they have helped me the
whole way. My father being a musician
himself taught me from a young age how
to play many different instruments, It was
something I enjoyed doing and found it
relaxing. I loved learning new things. My
Dad is forever telling me that I should be
teaching him things now! But there’s not
However
in 2011 Young’s career started to slowly
turn into a mess… Her drug and alcohol intake increasingly affected her live
performances, as she turned up to several
club or TV performances too drunk
to complete her set. Her management
company suggested she got some help,
but rather than take their advice Young
dumped the management company and
turned the experience into the catchiest
song on her new album- “Stubborn never
sober, I’m just livin my life...”
Young later told The Daily mail newspaper she did go to rehab but did not last
long: “I did, for just 25 minutes. I went
in and said, ‘Hi’ and tried to explain that
I drink because I’m in love and have
Young had a huge problem
with drinking in 2012
she decided to seek help
f****** up the relationship; I cheated on
my boyfriend. Then I walked out.”
‘Stubborn never sober’, the first single
off the album, hit number seven on the
UK charts and won Young her second
Ivor Novello award for song writing. The
album won album of the year at the MTV
Europe Music Awards and Best Indie
Vocal Album and Best New Artist at the
2012 Grammy Awards. It won numerous
awards including Grammys for Record
of the Year and Song of the Year. NME
magazine rated the song as the best
of 2012 praising Young e as “mouthy,
funny, sultry, and quite possibly crazy”.
“It’s impossible not to be seduced by
her originality. Combine it with production by James Black that references
four decades worth of rock/indie music
without once ripping it off, and you’ve
got the best song of 2012,’’ it’s raved over.
Petals was the top-selling album in the
UK in 2012 for both over-the-counter
and iTunes sales. Several other singles
were released from the album and all
charted well. In late 2012, Young’s debut
album ‘-OH’ was released in the United
States, debuting at number 45 on the
Billboard charts. Even though Young
had a huge problem with drinking in
2012 she decided to seek help. The time
was right; she would be fucking up her
career otherwise? She couldn’t let this
talent slide away. Her parents wouldn’t
allow her to either. Young decided to
attend alcoholism counselling and get
the help she needed for her drug use to
kick start her career again, she needed to
focus on creating her new album ‘Pick up
them pieces’ that will be released in April
2013. Young told GRANITE ‘I turned
into an alcoholic and a heavy cocaine
user, nobody was to blame apart from
me – I’m trying to get back on track. A
slow progress is better than none right?
I’m so proud how far I’ve come already’
At least she was honest she’s realising
that she had made some mistakes and
beginning to get back her normal life
style. In the interview we questioned
Young on her love life she told us that
she was single and not looking for a
relationship until she got herself better
and decided what she wanted to do with
her music. However young started doing
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some small exclusive gigs in her local pubs
up in London; she enjoyed performing and
especially entertaining and surprising her
audience. Imagine if you where just sitting
in your local pub and all of a sudden an
artist just started to perform? Young told us
she enjoyed doing surprise performances
because when she was younger she couldn’t
always go to festivals and concerts she didn’t
always have the money. She wanted all of
her fans to feel special and enjoy the night as
much as they could. Because she wished this
could have happened when she was younger.
In February of 2013 Charlotte Young was
officially clean she had been of alcohol and
drugs for over 10 months now. Her family
and close friends where so pleased of her.
She was pleased with herself. Deep down
she knew she could do it; she did. All of
her songs where written out for the album
release in April, most of them where to do
with the struggles she had last year. Her
album being released in January 2014 ‘These
wars’ was going to be a popular hit, Her
last album ‘petals’ was extremely successful
peaking at No. 1 in the United Kingdom and
at No. 2 in Ireland. When it was released
for download in the United States several
weeks later, the album debuted at No. 17 on
the Billboard Heat seekers Album chart. She
was so pleased with how far she had come.
She couldn’t thank all of the musicians in
her band anymore she claims she wouldn’t
have been able to have done it without them.
Mary Nash really helped Young become
who she is today, from signing her after her
drunken performance in Soho. Young just
can’t believe how lucky she is. She was over
excited about her new album coming out in
2014; she wanted to become more popular
and see if she could even do better than last
time. Her aim was to become No.1 again in
the United Kingdom and also become No.1
in Ireland. She told GRANITE ‘I’m going to
have one of my songs released for free on
ITunes, it will help promote who I am, what
I’m doing and how I sound! More people
will by my album then… right?’ It’s great to
see that Young has turned her life around
and finally got her head screwed on. However something extremely traumatic suddenly
happened in Young’s life, December (only a
few weeks before ‘These wars’ was being released). Young’s closest friend Isabella White
Summer former drummer in the band was
involved in an alarming car collision between there motorcycle and a car in London.
Summers boyfriend was drunk driving on
the way home from a friend’s birthday party,
thinking that it was only down the road
and that everything would be okay. He was
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wrong... Summers was critically injured and
a her boyfriend ended up being hospitalized Friday afternoon after their motorcycle
collided with a car in East London, police
said. The car driver was cited, state police at
London station said. Valario Jabobs 24, and
his passenger, Isabella 20, were northbound
at 3:45AM. When a car turned in front of
their motorcycle from a side road, police
said. Daniel P. Moffett, 23, of Auburn, was
turning left from Brick Hill Road as the two
youngster, of London, crashed into his car.
Luckily they both survived this serious accident. However Summers wouldn’t be able
to perform the week of the albums release
due to two broken arms and extremely bad
injuries.
play it when I get home’.
Young just wanted her friends to get better.
‘It was such a shock, I just want them both
to get better and also learn from there silly
mistakes. They don’t understand how lucky
they are to be alive. Obviously I’m completely devastated that Isabella can’t perform for
the albums opening dates, but I guess her
health is more important. As long as she
gets better is the main thing. But fans don’t
worry, we’re still performing on the release
dates. We’ll just be using a friend as a drummer!!!’ GRANITE when along to the opening of ‘These war’s’ in January it was held in
Camden Round house the day of the album
release, Young the only vocalist who formed
the band thought it would be a fantastic way
to promote the band and brand new album.
After their performance she was selling the
new album and also doing a CD signing.
She was a natural performer and entertainer.
She knew exactly how to please her audience and new fans! At the album opening
GRANITE interview a few fans to find out
their opinions of their band and what they
thought of the new album. We spoke to four
people two males and two females! It was
lovely that we got invited to the opening and
also get to speak to the fans and find out
everyone’s opinions.
Name: Lilly Age:23 From: London
‘’I’ve never heard of Young before, Me and
my friends where shopping up in Camden
because we live in the area and saw her album release being held tonight in the Round
house, so we thought we would go along.
I’m a big fan of Indie/rock music myself. All
of my house mates love it. So we decided to
take a trip down. Straight away I love the
whole atmosphere and the people there.
The music was catchy and I really enjoyed
it, I’ll definitely listen to Young more often
now. I actually have purchased her brand
new album! I’m surprised because I’ve never
buy albums. I normally download all of my
music online or just listen to albums and
tracks on YouTube. Obviously; I’m a student
I don’t have money to spend on all of the latest music. So I’m shocked I bought Young’s.
I guess I’ve taken a big liking to her and her
fellow band members. But the whole night
was really welcoming, I really enjoyed myself. Especially meeting the band and getting
my CD signed!!! It was so exciting and I was
so lucky. The whole night was constant fun
and excitement. I would definitely see Young
again. 10 out of 10’’
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Name: Layla Age: 18 From: London
‘’The amount of effort and rehearsing Young
and her band member have put into this
performance and whole night are unbelievable. I wasn’t expecting discounted drink,
CD signing, and meeting Young… I mean
she’s fabulous. She’s had her ups and downs
in life. So have I, so I can relate to her music.
I personally prefer ‘These wars’ to ‘Petals’
because all of the songs in it have more emotion, with a mix of heavy rock but also sad
slow indie songs. So yeah... I love the new
album, I’ve already bought it. I can’t wait to
Name: Brad Age: 26 From: Scotland
‘’Young’s blimmin hot!!! I fuckin love the
new album! It’s unique, upsetting but also so
catchy. I’ve always been a big follower of her
music from when she first started. I’m from
Scotland but I’m always traveling to London
for concerts and little trips. When Young’s
playing I always try to come. She’s such a
humble artist and has so much appreciation
for how far she has come. She treats her
followers like her mates, welcomes everyone
and really gets the crowd going mad at her
concerts! So I’m fucking chuffed I came to
London this weekend!!!! My mates are gonna be going mad that they didn’t come!’’
Name: Daniel Age:17 From: Ireland
‘’A few of my mates have spoken about
Young before and told me that she’s really good, but I’d never heard of her until
tonight. She’s done so well, especially not
having the original drummer in the band
due to her being injured in a car collision.
The whole night was fuckin great; me and
my mates had a total wicked night! We met
some really hot girls, we had free drinks
and to top it all off I bought Young’s album
and she fucking signed it for me!!! I literally couldn’t believe it I even got my bluddy
picture with her. Such a class night’’
Im going to have one of my
songs
released for
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