Fransisca London has just completed
her full length alternative pop album entitled
“New Girl in Town” and her music has been featured
nationally on XM Satellite Radio and
Music Choice “Hit List.” In May 2007,
she hit #1 Pop Punk track on GarageBand.com
and landed the #1 spot for “AC/Hot
AC Most Added” on national radio. She has also
had a number of dance track releases in the UK,
as well as doing vocals in ‘The Hitchhikers
Guide to the Galaxy’ film and shot a promo piece
for iTunes.
Fransisca London was born in Stuttgart Germany. She is an American citizen with
dual citizenship. Her father was in the Air Force
(Yes she was an air force brat!) but he passed
away at an early age. Her mother is Northern
Irish which is where her family is based now.
But like most Americans she is a bit mixed because
her great grandparents were from Poland, The
Ukraine, Ireland and France. Fransisca has always
been fascinated by music and the theater. Her
mother is an accomplished piano player and she
grew up listening to her play and used to sit
at the piano and make up little songs etc. Her
father was a huge rat pack fan and he loved old
fashioned singers like Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers, Bing Crosby etc. So she also grew up
listening to old vinyl records.
Fransisca
grew up performing. She started out doing dance
and figure skating and loved expressing herself
to music. She also loved performing in school
musicals and school plays. She was a competitive
figure skater until she went to boarding school
in Northern Ireland which is where she began
singing.
She started
singing in a piano/restaurant bar and earned
herself good tips as the “singing waitress.”
She
went to college at the University of Glasgow
in Scotland where she began getting recording
work as a session singer, as well as singing
her way round all the open mic nights and being
a member of several "crappy bands." She graduated
early with a master’s honors degree in Social
and Economic History and it was then she moved
to London to seriously pursue musical ambitions.
After singing
in the clubs and singing covers at open mic nights
and showcases, she soon began to get some demos
of her own material together and began
sending her demo’s around.
Now she collaborates with some of the best
writers in the UK and has recently begun co-writing
with a few artists. She wrote all the songs on
her upcoming album entitled “New Girl in Town”
while working with various producers.
Her full 15
track album is available at iTunes, MSNmusic,
Real Rhapsody, and many other digital distribution
outlets.