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Last updated: 03 July 2009
Duffy has come seemingly out of nowhere to become of the biggest worldwide sellers of 2008 with her album Rockferry.
Read about Duffy on BBC Cymru (Welsh language)
Video: Duffy performing Mercy on Later... With Jools Holland in 2008.
Let's not beat around the bush here; it's rare for a Welsh solo artist - a singer-songwriter - to be picked up by a major record label, sell millions and be both a Brit- and Grammy-winner.
Read the full Duffy biography.
Key works
Rockferry (2008)
Read the BBC Music review
See also
Elsewhere on the BBC
- Duffy on BBC Cymru (Cymraeg)
- Duffy on BBC Music
- Queens Of British Pop
- BBC News: Duffy gets four Brits nominations
- Radio 2 Live in London: Duffy performance video and backstage interview
- The Culture Show: Duffy performs an acoustic version of Mercy
- Glastonbury 2008: Duffy picture gallery
- BBC News: Sound of 2008: Duffy
- BBC News: Singer Duffy secures chart double
- BBC News: Duffy sets hair on fire backstage
- BBC News: Duffy has flower named after her
- BBC News: Duffy crowned queen of the Brits
- BBC News: Duffy invites people back to Wales






