In a golden era for 'oversharing' singer-songwriters, a new star emerges from England
LOS ANGELES — Holly Humberstone can't recall the particulars of the poll, but she's certain about the result: Grantham, where she grew up in England's East Midlands region, was once voted "the crappest town in the U.K.," as she puts it.
"It's just got nothing," the 21-year-old singer-songwriter says of the small industrial city of approximately 40,000. "Basically you get born there, and then you leave," which indeed she did after high school, moving first to Liverpool for college and later to London to pursue music.
Yet due to the pandemic, Humberstone returned to Grantham early last year — specifically to her rural childhood home about 20 minutes outside town — and it was
