
Adkins was raised by a young single mother who lived in various working class communities of London. She was a lover of contemporary pop songs as a child , and was adept at playing the clarinet and guitar. She came across Etta an early-mid-century rhythm-and- blues singer, in her teens, and started to think about a career as musician. While she was being trained in a secondary school of performing arts, which was funded by the government when a friend began uploading songs Adkins had composed on Myspace. The site was soon contacted by record companies and signed an agreement with XL Recordings in 2006.
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