Traipsing the streets of South Wales with a vegetable rack full of buckets and brushes may not be the most glittering start to a career in music, but for Deborah Hodgson folk singer this was the catalyst, earning her first guitar as a child by washing the (bottom half) of cars.

Alongside performing with longstanding guitarist and songwriter Charles Marshall as 'Caraway', she duets with Welsh harpist Amanda Whiting, sings 'lizard lounge' with jazz guitarist Loz Ruston, American folk and country with Vo Fletcher and Tyler Massey, and jazz/ pop with the Richard Hughes trio. She also uses her music to benefit nursing homes and schools through composition and performance under the charitable trust 'Music in the Community' (MIC), which she set up in 2006.

Deborah Hodgson's song writing cleaves to the honest confessional values of Laurel Canyon spiced with a little of the mystic energy of the Wales of her birth. As a vocalist there are few styles of music that she cannot bring under the spell of her unique, emotive voice.

Although petite, Deborah Hodgson's natural charm and enchanting voice can fill any stage and bewitch an audience whatever the venue, whether she's sat on a rusty oil drum singing at a festival in a farmers field, performing at a lavish castle wedding, in the underground crypt of a cathedral or at a major arena supporting 10CC.

For Deborah Hodgson, folk singer, the greatest challenge is meeting all her commitments and finding the time to write and record her own music - a sentiment expressed in her recently recorded song 'Taigh Allain' penned in the Scottish highlands. She is currently working with pianist and composer Martin Riley on a first studio album, which will be ready for 2009.