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Heidi, hi!

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November 12, 2025

ROB FIDDAMAN this week chats to singer-songwriter Heidi Browne about her childhood shows for her parents, supporting an 80s icon, and why you may have already heard her music...

Heidi, thank you for chatting to me! Firstly, can you tell us where you are from originally and where you're based now.

Hi Rob. I was actually born in London (made in Chelsea!) but grew up mostly in and around Market Drayton. I bought my first house in Longton in 2017 and was based there for several years. Currently I'm living down in Bedfordshire but I tour all over the UK and come back up this way at least twice a month.

How old were you when you first discovered you loved singing?

I can't remember a time when I didn't love singing, dancing, playing and performing. I would have been very young when I first started putting on little shows for my parents. I used to wear a moustache and bowler hat on occasion and play piano and I had two hindu puppets of Rama and Sita and used to put on puppet shows too! I always wanted to get picked in choir but it wasn't until my mid-teens that anyone outside of home really knew I could sing.

I read you started writing songs aged 14. Is that correct?

The first I would count as a proper song would have been written around then. I used to make up tunes, poems and stories, then I learnt my first few chords on guitar and that was it!

What instruments can you play?

Guitar and piano are my main songwriting tools. I also recently wrote a few songs on ukulele, banjo and mandolin. My first instruments which I learnt in school were violin and flute, and then in bands as a teenager I played bass. Funnily enough the instrument most remember me for is the mouth trumpet, which is a sound I make with my mouth. It sounds comical but effective!

Do you have a wide range of genres and artists as influences?

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