If you're a female musician looking to make a name for yourself, you could do worse than hook up with Oi Va Voi. When they made their first album proper, Laughter Through Tears, in 2003, it featured vocals from a then unknown KT Tunstall. After playing more than 100 gigs with Oi Va Voi, she launched her solo career and did rather well for herself.
While their former singer became a star, the band were having a hard time making the follow-up to Laughter Through Tears, and by the time their self-titled sophomore effort appeared in 2007, their violinist, Sophie Solomon, had left to release her own debut, Poison Sweet Madeira.
To lose one powerful female musician with star quality