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Naomi’s musical talent and extraordinary voice were first recognised when she was just a young teenager. This was hardly surprising given the way in which her parents had immersed her in the music of Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson and other blues Greats and it was only natural that she should move onto listening to such jazz Divas as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.

Naomi’s desire to entertain led her to sing with a number of different bands on the jazz and blues circuit in her early twenties, and she was chosen to sing live on BBC Radio Shropshire in 1996.

Despite taking a short break to marry and have children Naomi inevitably returned to her singing career three years ago and immediately found herself in great demand at a variety of society functions, including weddings, fashion shows, tea dances, vintage themed dances, parties and balls (playing popular music form the 1900s - 1940s) and the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Ludlow Food Festival.

Currently Naomi provides a stunning front for a sixteen piece show band as well as mesmerising the audience with her more intimate Naomi Payne Quartet which plays jazz, blues, classic and latin numbers.  Together these two allow her to give full range to her magnificent voice, equally comfortable delivering the husky blues classics as the show stopping Broadway hits.

In addition she also sings regularly for her local Craven Arms Little Big Band and can occasionally be found deputising for the band’s drummer! (…….but won’t admit that she can play the flute and the guitar as well…..)

This incredibly versatile singer can only go from strength to strength as more and more people experience the rich, unusual and beautiful voice of Naomi Payne.