Meet the 21-Year-Old British Songstress With the Soul of Joni Mitchell — elle.com

When 21-year-old British folk singer Gabrielle Aplin stepped off the plane at JFK yesterday, she wanted to see everything. "Is the Chelsea Hotel, like the Leonard Cohen song, a real place?" By everything, she meant the landmarks of the 1960s New York that belonged to Patti Smith and Bob Dylan, the remnants of the folk musicians who inspired her while growing up in Somerset in the southwest of England (also the hometown to musician Ben Howard).

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