LESS than four years since she released her debut EP Warrior, Grammy Award winning Foxes has swiftly become one of the UK's most celebrated international pop stars.

The Southampton starlet, 27-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, has created a catalogue of epic songs.

Her debut album Glorious – featuring Top 10 single Let Go For Tonight, Youth and Holding Onto Heaven - showcased a burgeoning talent getting to grips with channelling life's complications into A-grade pop bangers.

The follow-up album, prefaced by the disco-tinged strut of the lead single Body Talk, came from experience.

“I knew immediately what I wanted with this album and I was at the reins of it this time,” she states, following the release of All I Need in February.

Southampton-born Louisa is a woman who eschews the lure of the full-on glitzy pop star life in favour of taking the bus around east London with her mates or working on her mum's clothing market stall.

Former Cantell School pupil Louisa grew up in Swaythling and St Denys with her mother, sister and brother.

She moved to London to follow her dream of becoming a musician in 2011 and became a huge hit in the US in 2012 with the number one radio spot for her single Youth. The track, along with another of her songs, Home, was heard on hit TV series Gossip Girl.

Her latest South Coast appearance, a rescheduled Portsmouth date, takes place at the Wedgewood Rooms on Tuesday.

Tickets are £16 in advance from wedgewood-rooms.co.uk