Gabby Young was on track to become an opera singer until Jeff Buckley and the jazz greats inspired her to switch teams.
Gabby's unique perspective of the world around her is inspired as much by imagination as real events, but when thyroid cancer threatened to take her classically trained voice at the age of 22, she got serious about recording her stories. Using her recovery time to pen her melodies, Gabby took in global influences to fuel her heartfelt emotion, which shines through her beautifully haunting songs. "I feel blessed rather than afflicted," she says simply.
Gabby recently formed the existing band, normally a 5-7 piece, who complete the magical musical fairground we know today, using a wide range of instruments, most notably trumpet, trombone, piano and accordion. Young's avant-garde fusion of globally-influenced folk combines Balkan brass, jazz and swing in an aural antiques shop from the future to produce what has been affectionately dubbed Circus Swing by those who realised there was no existing genre to encompass Young's sound.
The debut album, We're All In This Together topped both Amazon UK's folk and rock download charts during June 2010 as part of the 'Storm the Charts' campaign. Positive coverage appeared in many of the UK's major newspapers, including The Guardian, The Sunday Times and the London Evening Standard. The Guardian named the band in the list "Our anti-tips for 2010: the acts who deserve to be heard."
