Sarah Close

British singer/songwriter Sarah Close came to fame uploading covers online. Leaving behind a major-label deal, she struck out on her own, hitting number one with her debut single. Born and brought up in a small village on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast, she was isolated not just from the mainland but from all of her schoolfriends, who lived on the other side of the island. With both parents playing in local bands, she dreamed of a music career, and turned to the internet in a bid to make it happen. Surreptitiously borrowing her mother's guitar, she taught hersel...