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Liana Flores
Flowers Of The Soul
(Verve/Fiction Records)
★★★★
STARTING out performing and releasing music on YouTube, it’s been a meteoritic rise for Liana Flores. In 2022 the young singer-songwriter from Norwich tweeted that she was handing in her undergraduate dissertation. Just two years later, with her wonderful debut album out in the wild, she will soon embark on a tour of North America, mainland Europe and Britain.
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