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Mahalia
Born on May 1, 1998, in Syston, Charnwood, Mahalia Burkmar started playing
guitar and writing songs as a child, penning her first song, "My Angel," at the
age of 8. She comes from a musical family, her mother played for the 1980s synth
band Colourbox and her father sang and played guitar with the electro-pop outfit
Erasure. Her live debut came at the age of 12 in a venue called The Musician in
her hometown of Leicester. She waited another year before penning her next song
"Let the World See the Light." After this, she was signed to Atlantic Records
when she was just 13. In 2012, ...
