Rosie Frater Taylor – "I Love Guitarists That Started in Jazz but Moved Into Pop"

It's a bold claim, but one that we're prepared to make: there is no other guitarist in the UK right now who sounds quite like Rosie Frater-Taylor.

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Brought up in a musical household, with a jazz drummer for a father and a jazz singer for a mother, the rapidly rising young Londoner specialises in combining accessible songcraft with wicked jazz-infused guitar chops as she deftly blurs the boundaries between rock, alt-pop, neo-soul, new-school jazz and folk.

Having first picked up a guitar at a very young age, Rosie possesses an innate kind of connection to her instrument that often manifests itself as a tendency to sing or scat along in unison with the improvised melodies that come flowing out of her fingertips. A technique originally born out of necessity (she used to need to hum lines aloud in order to find them on the fretboard), it's developed into a trademark style that never fails to turn heads - even winning her a high-profile fan in the form of Jimmy Page, who once caught a solo performance of Rosie's at The Troubadour and felt compelled to personally congratulate her on her impressive skills.