Alan Pownall

Despite being lumped in the same category as former flatmates Mumford & Sons, singer/songwriter Alan Pownall’s audio owes more towards the melodic acoustic guitar pop of early single Paul McCartney as well as the Kinks compared to the thriving nu-folk picture. Pownall was created in 1985 in THE WEST London to a barrister dad and housewife mom, and his primary interest while developing up was the globe of style. His first work was like a tea son for a style PR company; he worked well for French developer Roland Mouret for just two years and enrolled at a renowned art university in Milan. Nevertheless, he dropped from the program after recognizing music was his phoning, and moved back again to London, where he started writing his personal material and shaped Sex Encounter, a short-lived music group with Ted Dwane from Mumford & Sons. Despite playing simply three single gigs, he was asked to aid Adele on her behalf debut headline tour after he approached her through MySpace. In ’09 2009, he authorized to Mercury Information and released his debut solitary, “Chasing Period,” a yr later, after its appearance within a Nokia advert. After Pownall backed Paloma Beliefs, Lissie, and Mr. Hudson on the U.K. travels, his debut record, True Love Tales, made by Eliot Adam (Noah as well as the Whale), premiered in June 2010.