I Knew I'd Be Famous ; She's Being Raved About As the Next Kate Bush, the Uk's Answer to Lady Gaga, and a Welsh Singer/Songwriter Who's Going to Put the Fear of Pop Into the Likes of La Roux and Florence and the Machine. So Should We Believe the Hype? You Bet. Claire Rees Met Marina and the Diamonds

Western Mail › February 06, 2010

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MARINA Diamandis is sat on a leather sofa in a basement bar in Cardiff Bay having her photographs taken after having just asked me if her outfit makes her "look like a Barbie Barbarella".

She has changed out of her neon pink body-con and is looking nonchalant in an on-trend digital print mini dress and faded denim jacket, her dark brown hair extensions over one shoulder, her Cleopatra eyes down-turned.

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I Knew I'd Be Famous ; She's Being Raved About As the Next Kate Bush, the Uk's Answer to Lady Gaga, and a Welsh Singer/Songwriter Who's Going to Put the Fear of Pop Into the Likes of La Roux and Florence and the Machine. So Should We Believe the Hype? You Bet. Claire Rees Met Marina and the Diamonds

"No, I don't want to rest my foot on the table," she says.

"I don't want it to look too leggy." This is pop music's newest player and the woman set to own 2010 - and she is definitely someone who knows what she wants and how she wants the world to see her. A 24-year-old Abergavenny-born talent, whose voice has been compared with Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux and whose model looks have seen her being mistaken for Shakira and Catherine Zeta-Jones. She is neither, as she points out feistily on the explosive single Hollywood which was released on Monday and is set to make the Top 10 this weekend.

"Female pop stars are focussed on so much for their looks, I'm very aware of that and it's highly unfair," she tells me later. "And I wish to change something.

"It's hard to be...

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