As she prepares for her Australian debut at this year’s Adelaide Guitar Festival, it’s hard to believe that performer Lau Noah first picked up a guitar less than a decade ago.

Since then, the distinctive guitarist and singer/songwriter has been lauded by artists such as Jackson Browne and Jacob Collier, and she’s now headed to Adelaide to support Israeli Australian performer Lior.

It’s been an astounding rise to fame for Noah, who learnt piano as a child back home in Catalonia, Spain, but gave up lessons after feeling restrained by formal teaching techniques.

“I went to music school as a kid, but I quit by the time I was a teenager, it was just not for me to be following any rules,” she says. “So, I continued to play piano and sing and write my own songs by myself throughout my teenage

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