Lucy Spraggan

Born Lucy Honour Ruby Spraggan on 21 July 1991 in Canterbury, Kent, Lucy Spraggan rose to fame as a contestant on hit UK show The X Factor in 2012, auditioning with her own song “Last Night,” and became the first contestant in the show’s history to crack the UK's Top 40 singles and albums chart with her album Top Room at the Zoo. However, she was forced to leave the competition after falling ill shortly after, which she later revealed to be the result of a rape by a hotel porter in 2012. She signed a contract with Columbia Records the following year and released her major-label debut, Join the Club, in 2015, which reached number seven in the UK and spawned the singles "Lighthouse" and "Last Night (Beer Fear)." Over the next few years, she went on to issue a steady stream of well-received albums, from 2015's independently released LP We Are—released through her own CTRL Records—to fifth studio effort Today Was a Good Day, issued via Cooking Vinyl in 2019. After signing a contract with Simon Cowell's Syco Music in 2022, her seventh studio album, Balance, saw the light in August 2023, produced by Aaron Bicksley, Philip Magee, Frank Colucci, and Sam Preston and peaking at number 24 in the UK. The LP was followed by the release of her autobiography, Process, in October 2023.

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