13 Facts About Sarah Gillespie

Sarah Gillespie is a British American singer songwriter and writer based in London.

Sarah Gillespie has four albums, known for combining poetic lyrics with folk, blues and elements of jazz.

Sarah Gillespie was born in London to an American mother and British father.

Sarah Gillespie grew up in Norfolk, interspersed with numerous trips to Minnesota where she listened to Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Cole Porter and early blues and jazz.

Sarah Gillespie plays festivals, clubs, arts centres and theatres in the UK and Europe.

Sarah Gillespie has performed live on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour,.

Sarah Gillespie cites her main influences as Tom Waits, Cole Porter, Bob Dylan early blues and jazz, poets T S Eliot and James Tate and the 1950s Beat Poetry movement.

Sarah Gillespie's style has been described as 'mixing folk, jazz and blues' with an emphasis on the lyrical content and delivery.

Sarah Gillespie has received four and five star reviews from The Arts Desk, The Guardian, Mojo, The Independent, The Financial Times, Metro, Rock n' Reel and the UK local press.

London's Metro commented 'Sarah Gillespie regularly has critics reaching for big-name comparisons.

Sarah Gillespie has written articles for Al Jazeera, CounterPunch, Middle East Online and The Palestine Chronicle, writing about issues surrounding liberalism, Islam and the west, critiquing liberals "who imagine that their belief in equality makes them superior".

In 2012 Sarah Gillespie released a 16-minute narrative music project, The War on Trevor.

The piece charts the travails of a Londoner suspected of various crimes ranging from public indecency and infidelity to terrorism, with Sarah Gillespie drawing on high-profile cases, including those of Jean Charles de Menezes and Moazzam Begg.