{"id":549248,"date":"2026-04-25T01:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549248\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:22:10","slug":"i-was-just-terrified-of-performing-live-says-jersey-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549248\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was just terrified&#8217; of performing live, says Jersey singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Jersey singer-songwriter said she used to be &#8220;terrified&#8221; of performing live during the early years of her career but now found it a &#8220;magical&#8221; experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nerina Pallot, 51, has released eight studio albums, with a new album called Fire Escape Symphonies set to be released next month as well as her new single Come Bring the Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer, who was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for her song Sophia, said she always wanted to be a musician but used to avoid performing her own songs live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wrote a song called Patience, which was my first single 25 years ago,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think it was once I&#8217;d written a song I felt I was good enough, then I had the confidence to perform my own songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jersey singer-songwriter said she used to be &#8220;terrified&#8221; of performing live during the early years of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-549248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}