Courtney adds, “Spellbounds music video was so fun to make! I really wanted to tell the story of what the lyrics meant to me through the camera and that’s exactly what we did! The team fully seen my vision and brought it alive!” From a young age, Courtney demonstrated a curiosity and understanding of music beyond her years and has led to her being compared to Janis Joplin. From the age of three she would belt out Aerosmith’s ‘Crazy’ around the house, driving her family, well, crazy. When she was just nine years old, she realised that becoming a musician was her dream, and she began to pursue it with true conviction – music at the expense of everything else. She was particularly inspired by Janis Joplin, James Brown, Little Richard and Tina Turner, but it wasn’t just their singing that captivated her – these were entertainers, whose charisma and magnetism were as much a draw as their astounding voices. After ‘America’s Got Talent’ and the follow-up ‘America’s Got Talent: The Champions’, she was placed in sessions with pop-oriented songwriters but never felt as if they were able to help unlock her sound. Instead she stepped back, vowed to prove herself, just as she did when she first performed in working men’s clubs as a child, and eventually connected with someone who understood her in the shape of Kevin Bowe. And with more new music coming soon, Courtney Hadwin is ready to soar. Just watch her go. | 
