Rooty

Irish singer/songwriter Rooty made her name penning songs for artists such as One Direction and Britney Spears before launching her own career as a singer. Born Ruth-Anne Cunningham in 1988 (her stage name is a play on the Irish pronunciation of "Ruthie") and brought up in the North Dublin suburb of Donaghmede, as a child she attended the famed Billie Barry Stage School and began writing songs at the age of seven, believing "that was just what singers did." Heavily influenced by '90s R&B, by the age of 12 she had formed a girl group, Dolce Vita; when she was 17, her father, wi...