Can you think of a singer/musician/ band member you first saw/ heard/ both, on TV/ radio or similar as a child or teenager and just went OH MY GOSH - and even after that first viewing/ hearing/ both, you knew they'd changed you? And why, specifically. (Visual/ sound/ or combo).

Nina Simone.

I've got a ton of these. Often Top of the Pops moments from Thursday nights when I always had a babysitter. Or late night crackles through my little radio in my bedroom in the dark.

As a very interior child who was often mistaken for a boy, when I first saw Madonna I bookmarked learning to have 1oz of her self belief and celebration of her looks and pure unappologetic joy in clothes and hair and make up and fashion when I grew up.