Maisie Peters

“I grew up loving music but I wasn’t especially, precociously talented at anything,” Maisie Peters told Apple Music in 2021.

“I really firmly believe that I taught myself because I just love it so much.” That process began in her early teens, when the Sussex singer-songwriter (born in 2000) borrowed a friend’s guitar and started experimenting, writing imaginative songs that transported her out of the small town she was raised in.

But it’s hard to believe Peters wasn’t always just naturally gifted.