One to watch: Mahalia

Signed to a major label at 13, the Midlands singer-songwriter is practically an industry veteran at 19Mahalia finds it “funny” that she’s being called an emerging artist, because, aged 19, she says: “I feel like I’ve been doing this for my whole little life.” Indeed, it’s been all of her teenage years. The singer-songwriter, whose surname is Burkmar, was 12 when she started playing guitar at open mics in her hometown of Leicester. A year later she was si