Natalie Duncan (born Natalie Alexis Duncan 18 November 1988) is a British singer and songwriter from Nottingham, signed to Verve Records. She released her debut EP Natalie Alexis Duncan on the Farmyard Records label in 2009and then featured in BBC2's Goldie's Band: By Royal Appointment, broadcast in March and April 2011. She released her debut album Devil In Me (recorded at Real World Studios and produced by Joe Henry) on the Verve label in July 2012. She has been compared to the likes of Alicia Keys and Nina Simone. 　　Duncan was born in 1988 in Croydon, London, England. Her mother is Jamaican and her father half English, half Greek. She moved to Nottingham in 1991, where she grew up. She displayed a keen interest in music as a child and at age 3 composed her first original tune on a tiny toy keyboard. She commenced piano lessons at age 5 and, preferring to learn by ear rather than by conventional sight reading, she pursued the ABRSM Jazz Piano syllabus, obtaining her grade 5 qualification when she was 14. Her musical influences were quite eclectic – her father had an extensive record collection with a large black music content, as a young child she listened to classical music on The Magical Music Box, and she was taken to see Jools Holland and his Big Band on her 11th birthday, whilst all the time listening to a wide array of music of her choice. Duncan first sang in public at age 10 in Junior school, and at age 15 she won the year 11 music competition at her Secondary school, singing and playing an Alicia Keys cover. She had also been writing her own songs from quite an early age. She left school to attend New College Nottingham where she obtained a BTEC HNC in music in 2007.