Armstrong has achieved a truly remarkable amount in the last two years; She has performed and toured across Europe, strutted the stages of some the biggest rhythm & blues festivals in both the UK and mainland Europe to crowds of over 6,000 people, performed at legendary venues such as the 100 Club and The Clapham Grand, reached the top 3 most-played list of the Independent Blues Broadcasters Association and top 20 in Blues Matters Magazine, been nominated for four different categories in the UK Blues awards, performed at the 2023 Blues awards ceremony, won Contemporary Blues Artist of the Year at the 2024 awards, and been played on BBC Radio 2 by legendary musician and broadcaster Cerys Matthews, who called Armstrong a ‘thing of wonder’.

Armstrong has also released five singles, a debut 6 track EP ‘Love, Sex & Death’ and was invited to perform aboard Joe Bonamassa’s prestigious Keeping the Blues Alive Mediterranean Cruise. Her meteoric rise will continue throughout 2024, beyond any doubt.

An article in ERB Magazine says this of Armstrong: ‘She’s a born entertainer, with a voice very few people could rival. If you can get to one of her gigs, I would recommend going to hear what could easily be the voice of a generation‘.

Armstrong credits Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Donnie Hathaway, Freddie King, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Peggy Lee and Dinah Washington to be just some of her musical influences, peppering her performances with her trademark sense of humour garnered from the likes of the Goon Show, French & Saunders and Monty Python.

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Why the Blues?

Growing up in a small cottage in the South of England, her grandfather’s tales of being a singer in 60’s London and her parent’s obsession with Blues and Soul fuelled Armstrong’s blossoming love for music. Her natural proclivity for entertaining, astute mind and vibrant creativity earned her scholarships to prestigious private performing art schools, where she was ostracised for being ‘poor’, ‘fat’ and ‘weird’ due to her neurodiversity. The following foray into art college was stopped dead in it’s tracks by a car accident at 18 years old. Armstrong departed college early and worked as a waitress by day, visual artist and musician by night. More challenges came in the form of the suicide of a beloved friend and increasingly frequent migraines caused by severe light sensitivity, the reason for which Armstrong wears her now trademark red lensed glasses.

Armstrong pours her complex collection of experiences, a wealth of both pain and joy, into her dynamic song writing and emotive vocals. Top all this off with a seasoning of witty British humour, colourful human stories and relatable experiences, and you end up with powerful music for all walks of life that can make the heart soar.