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How pop singer Dylan turned her Latitude disaster into triumph

Mark Savage
BBC music correspondent
Jack Morgan DylanJack Morgan
The singer made most of her formative memories at Latitude

Rising pop singer Dylan has just finished touring with Ed Sheeran, playing some of Europe's biggest stadiums - but her spiritual home has always been the Latitude Festival.

That's where, at the age of 10, she played her first show, improvising songs on a piano plonked down in the forest for anyone to play.

"I was just making it up on the spot and a crowd appeared behind me," she says.

But Latitude was also the scene of a devastating revelation that ended up inspiring her breakthrough EP, Purple.

Treacherous boyfriend

She had been standing in front of the main stage, a couple of years ago, when a schoolmate approached her and said: "I'm so glad you've dumped your boyfriend."

She hadn't but was intrigued.

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