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Gabrielle: ‘I turned down performing with Prince because I’m a scaredy cat’

The singer answers your questions on the time she met Nelson Mandela, working with East 17, stopping work for 11 years and Bob Dylan loving her using his music

TopperJK It started as a poem about how every time I took a step closer to my dreams of singing and writing songs, they seemed to move further out of my grasp. By the time the kids were older, I was ready to come back, and I’ve been able to enjoy touring and everything else from a different perspective, rather than that of a mother who’s constantly worrying. Because I think back to when I was a kid when we were leaving school and writing in each other’s books, someone put: “I hope to see you on Top of the Pops.” Obviously people felt that in no way that would actually happen.

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