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Paloma Faith admits she had no confidence when she first started performing.
The 'Can't Rely On You' singer tried singing when she was 14 but gave up on the idea of a career in music because she didn't believe in herself.
She said: "I just didn't have the confidence or think I was very good. I then started again when I was 21.
"I was working in a bar, and I got roped into being the frontwoman of the band of someone worked with. I did it for a laugh, just a bit of fun, rather than with any serious aspirations to make a career out of it."
The 32-year-old star was later persuaded by friends to start writing her own songs and claims her career just "escalated from there".
She revealed she was inspired by artists who are "brave and ballsy", like Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Tina Turner, Bjork and PJ Harvey.
She explained: "[I looked up to] exciting female artists that have always thought outside the box and not just done what everyone else was doing."
The star, who releases her new album 'A Perfect Contradiction' on March 10, is also working with Samsung's Launching People campaign to discover new talent and insists she already has experience in nurturing artists, having helped the likes of 'Skyfall' singer Adele when she was starting out.
She explained: "I've already got a bit of a reputation for helping people with their careers. It's genuinely something that I love doing.
"I used to be a promoter for a few people who have gone on to have huge careers, like Adele.
"I've been asked a number of times to be involved in judging panels for TV shows and other talent initiatives, and turned them down because of the format."
Paloma added: "With Launching People, I get to use my knowledge, contacts and experience to help someone in their career in a positive way."

Snoop Lion has been announced as the final headline act for Boardmasters 2014.
The hip-hop star, formerly Snoop Dogg, will play at the UK's biggest surf and music festival, which takes place in Newquay, Cornwall, from August 6 to August 10.
The 42-year-old rapper will join headline acts Bastille and Chase and Status, along with Ben Pearce, The Cribs, Dan Croll, Palma Violets, George Ezra and Bipolar Sunshine, who are performing throughout the weekend.
The festival, which was established in 1981, takes place at two legendary locations along the Cornish coastline, at Fistral Beach and Watergate Bay, and more than 150,000 visitors are expect to attend.
The five-day event will also include an international surf competition featuring the biggest names in the sport.
Additional artists already confirmed to take to the stage include 2manydjs DJ set, Duke Dumont, Roni Size, Peace and Reel Big Fish.
Tickets are sold in five tiered bands, starting from as low at £99 and rising to £139.
A limited number of passes for Friday to Sunday with camping are priced at £116 and tickets for Thursday to Sunday camping are £126, both including booking fees.
To book tickets to Boardmasters 2014, visit boardmasters.co.uk.

Queens of the Stone Age would think about playing the Grammys again if bosses "got their sh*t together".
The rock band - made up of Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore - played the ceremony last month but were left unimpressed after their set was cut short for the commercials.
Frontman Josh is now trying to forget the incident and told Faster Louder: "I'd play anywhere. I don't care about the drama. I don't think it's necessary to worry or sweat the rest of this stuff. Just go and play your music ... I don't like to be disrespected, but nobody likes that."
Josh, 40, previously told an audience at a gig in the US: "F**k the Grammys" but insists he was misunderstood and was actually "really drunk" and simply reacting to banter from the crowd.
Asked during a fan Q&A if the band would play the awards ceremony again, he replied: "If they got their sh*t together, maybe," adding, "I'm in a band, I go play music wherever I'm supposed to go play, you can't sweat this other stuff, it's not that big of a deal."
Queens Of The Stone Age are currently in Australia for a joint tour with Nine Inch Nails, which continues in Perth tomorrow night (12.03.14).
The band have also announced they will headline this year's Leeds and Reading Festivals in August with Paramore, Arctic Monkeys and Blink 182.

Lily Allen has admitted her new singles are "rubbish".
The 'Air Balloon' singer, who will release her new album 'Sheezus' in May, has blamed radio stations and her record labels for not playing her "better" material.
She made the admission after a fan took to Twitter yesterday (10.03.14) to tell the star he thinks her new music is "docile pop rubbish", adding, "So disappointing. She properly just wrote some rubbish to cash some cheques. (sic)"
The 28-year-old singer was quick to fire back and told the follower: "What you've heard so far yes. All i can do is do my best, the labels and the radio stations won't play the better stuff. (sic)"
The fan then told the star: "Fair play, still gonna buy Sheezus see what the rest offers. I have faith! Chinese is one of my favourite songs of all time. (sic)," to which Lily responded, "Keep the faith."
The singer, whose new album drops on May 5, has so far released four tracks from the record including hits 'Hard Out Here' and 'Air Balloon', along with 'L8 CMMR' and her new single 'Our Time'.
Meanwhile, she recently admitted she is more popular in other countries than she is in the UK.
Speaking on 'The Michael McIntyre Chat Show' on Monday night (10.03.14), she told the comedian: "I'm a lot more popular around the world than I am here," adding, "My biggest territories are France and Australia."

Taylor Swift has been named 'Top Money Maker' of 2013 by Billboard. The 'I Knew You Were Trouble' singer earned $39.7m from a combination of music sales, royalties, and touring last year, with the large sum placing her ahead of Beyonce, Justin Timber...

Pixie Lott wants to start her own record label.
The 'Nasty' singer, who has launched her own talent night in London, is looking to follow in the footsteps of 'X Factor' boss Simon Cowell as she coaches undiscovered artists and helps to link them up with professionals in the music industry.
She told the Daily Star newspaper: "Mainly it's about new artists getting out there, 'cause it's hard when you don't really know anyone. I get really excited hearing new people, especially if it's amazing."
Pixie went on: "I kind of know a bit about the way this industry works after being in it for a few years. I think in the future it would be amazing to have my own label.
"I look for amazing singers. I wouldn't be bothered to have to market, like, a band that can't sing or something, I get motivated by good singers."
The blonde beauty, who has returned to music after a break, is also back to being a regular on the celebrity party scene but admits it's not always glamorous.
She explained: "I was at a party and Roll Deep were on the table next to me.
"Next thing I knew one of the boys from the band stood up and was sick all over me, it was terrible.
"I had to go to the toilet, take my long socks off and throw them in the bin."
But the 23-year-old star laughed it off and insists she can't wait to attend more parties after the release of her self-titled third album in May, the follow-up to 2011's 'Young Foolish Happy'.
Pixie likes singing about heartbreak and showing passion and emotion through her songs, despite being in a long-term relationship with model Oliver Cheshire, 25.
She said: "Even though I'm really happy, I think that as I've experience being in a relationship I can relate to being passionate and being sad, or how it would feel if it broke off," adding, "So I can relate to that more than I would have done before."

Robbie Williams "doesn't want to upset" Gary Barlow by saying no to a Take That reunion.
The 40-year-old singer - who reunited with his former band in 2010 for their sixth album 'Progress' - is said to be worried about upsetting Gary, who he's had differences with in the past, and isn't sure he's ready to focus completely on Take That rather than his solo material.
A source revealed: "Robbie isn't against the idea, although he doesn't really have time this year to commit to Take That, although they have collaborated on compositions.
"He also doesn't want to upset Gary, given that they patched up their differences and are as close as ever."
The 'Let Me Entertain You' hitmaker has reportedly suggested to Gary, 43, that they take things slow by working on material together - along with fellow bandmates Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald - for now, and then discussing a world tour at a later date.
The source told The Sun newspaper: "He's suggested recording together, seeing how that goes then embarking on a world tour in 2015."
Gary himself is preparing to kick-off his own solo tour with dates in cities including Glasgow, London, Cardiff and Manchester starting later this month, and Take That are already back in the studio working on a new album which is expected to be released later this year.

The Tenors say Miley Cyrus is going down a "dangerous" path.
The Canadian vocal quartet think the former Disney star - who was catapulted to the spotlight as Hannah Montana - has numerous young fans who admire and "copy" her, and the band are worried about the example she sets for a "nation of kids" with her provocative dance moves.
Talking at We Day UK in London on Friday (07.03.14), they told BANG Showbiz: "If you're a Disney star, you have so many young kids looking up to you and that will copy you.
"You have a whole nation of kids who are trying to be provocative or inappropriate and I think it's dangerous, a dangerous path to go down."
The Tenors - made up of Remingo Pereira, Victor Micallef, Fraser Walters and Clifton Murray - hope the 'Wrecking Ball' singer realises the long-term implications of being provocative and that "shock value" isn't the way forward.
Quizzed on the advice they'd give her, they added: "Think about your career for the next 15 years not just for the next six months because people are so willing to do something shocking, but you have to live with that moment for the rest of your life.
"I think there's a lot of pressure with big companies and the corporate world of running the music industry for people to sell themselves and do the shock value treatment to get the next few hits."

Embrace wrote 500 songs for their new album and think it's better than their 1998 debut 'The Good Will Out'.
The band - made up of brothers Danny and Richard McNamara, Steve Firth, Mickey Dale and Mike Heaton - have not released an album since 'This New Day' in 2006 and say it's taken them more than five years to write their sixth album.
Frontman Danny told BANG Showbiz: "It's really hard to do an album better than your first one.
"That's why we've been away for so long, most bands don't want to be away for that long.
"I think we got near it with our fourth album, but finally I think now we've actually managed to do it, not many bands can keep the standard up.
"The festival offers are coming through and America wants us again. It's exciting, I feel like a 15 year old again."
The 'Drawn from Memory' band will release their self-titled record on April 28, which features new single 'Refugees', and set out on tour in May after performing at secret shows in their hometowns of Bradford and Halifax recently.
And Danny admits he didn't think tour tickets would sell when they were approached by a promoter.
He said: "The response has been amazing. The gigs are all selling out, when the promoter came to us and said, 'We want to put a tour on sale', we thought nobody would be bothered. We put the tickets on sale and when I got out of bed [the next day] most of it had already sold out.
"It was like 10,000 tickets in one day, I was like, 'F***ing hell, we haven't even advertised it yet'. It's like the roller-coaster of starting again."
Embrace will also release their new single 'Follow You Home' on April 28.