She's the latest sensation to hit the music industry - find out where to catch Claire Maguire on tour.
The "Voice of 2011" has already picked up a top ten album, headline UK tour and Next Big Thing Q Award, now Clare Maguire is continuing to make waves with her new single, The Shield and The Sword.
A far cry from her teenage years, when at 17, a teacher told her to give up her dreams of being a singer to concentrate on exams. Clearly Claire decided to ignore her advice and dropped out of school.
By day, she worked in shops, bars and restaurants to earn enough money to move to London and work on music. By night, she sat up making connections on MySpace, pulling in an extraordinary 1.5 million hits to hear the rough demos she had posted on her page.
After a mass scramble to sign her in 2008, she signed to Universal Music at 20 and is now being labelled as the next Adele or Amy Winehouse.
Tour dates
Wed 25th May
Cuckoos, London
Wed 28th May
Evolution, Newcastle
Sun 26th June
Glastonbury
Fri 29th July
Camp Bestival, Dorset
Sat 20 Aug
V Festival, Weston/Hylands Park
Sat 10 Sep
Bestival, Isle of Wight