Talent meets attitude with Rox

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The Norbury girl may have shared a school with Adele and Leona Lewis, but Roxanne Tataei’s slick R’n’B suggests Sade and Lauryn Hill were her real mentors.

With her debut, Memoirs, due out in June, she came to the Jazz Café as part of the HMV Next Big Thing series.

Backed by a tight six-piece band, which included two backing singers who at times threatened to overpower her soulful voice, she began her nine-song set with My Baby Left Me, a sassy refrain on lost love, sung over funky stop-start backing.

The piano-led ballad Sad Eyes suggested a more sensitive side, although it was the reggae reworking of Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams that drew the loudest cheer from the crowd.

Still only 21, the diminutive singer lacked nothing for attitude. The sassy I Don’t Believe came complete with "speak to the hand" gestures, while the sun-dappled reggae of Rocksteady only began once those seated at the upstairs tables had been ordered to their feet.

Whether Rox quite has the songs to match the chutzpah remains to be seen. For now, though, we should all stand up and pay attention.

Rox, Liam Bailey, Diane Birch
Jazz Cafe
5 parkway,london, NW1 7PG