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Being inspired by groups such as The Fugees she started writing “rhymes” and turned her hand to song writing, which she would perform to her friends and teachers. “… Most of the songs I perform today were written when I was in my early teens, it’s just I have a better vocabulary now, so I can express myself better…” As a young teenager Ashlekah had a lot of issues relating to her troubled childhood and found writing songs cathartic as it was the only place she felt she could “be real”.

At 16 years old she had made up her mind that she wanted to be a solo artist but didn’t have the support to pursue this dream and basically didn’t know how to get into the music industry. She enrolled to do A level drama at her sixth form where she found her love for the stage. Still unsatisfied, she dropped out as she couldn’t shake her hopes of being a vocal artist.