"I was told that I wouldn't amount to stuff when I wanted to sing, when I was younger. With a lazy eyelid I never looked like what the traditional female singer songwriter would look like. 

"But I'm having the last laugh. You can be very much out of the box and your own individual person," says Dreams hitmaker Gabrielle in this frank interview to mark her recording comeback with a sneak peek of new album Under My Skin supporting ex-Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley for a Summer Series gig at Millennium Square on Saturday, July 21.