Southampton singer gets deal in California. Her crippling arthritis threatened to dash her dreams of stardom but instead led to her being signed to a US record label.SOUTHAMPTON (Daily Echo),
February 15, 2008:
Lin Duffy, 59, of Southampton, had retired from a lifetime in the music industry as a regular on the cabaret and club circuit owing to the painful condition. Instead she began recording at home as a kind of therapy - and that was when things really began to take off.
Lin is now riding on the crest of a wave after being signed by Californian label D and M Records.
She was signed after her friend and co-songwriter Carol Leech entered her for a competition to have her tracks put on a compilation CD the label was producing. Once she won a place on the record in October last year she then began producing her own album in November after she got a call from California commissioning the deal.
By James Maden
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