We are delighted to welcome Vanessa Forero to the mill for a special concert on Saturday 03 October. Vanessa will be performing solo and will feature music from the great pianist songwriters of the 70s along with her own material.

Vanessa Forero was born to a wild Colombian mother and an English scientist and organist father. Raised in a Yorkshire city, she absorbed roof-raising gospel from the church where she was the main pianist between age 13 – 30, and on the other side, absorbing the classical and orchestral records from her Dad's collection.

In 2004, Forero started to compose music professionally for film and television worldwide. She scored music for major channels and brands including Audi, Apple, Google, Adidas, Cadbury's + more, winning awards for 'best score', recording with the Liverpool Philharmonic an with music broadcasts across most major channels. She began to write songs as a break from the weight of an orchestral score, allowing her to explore the soundtrack to her own life as opposed to writing one for others. This pivoted her towards the warmer world of live music in community. In 2024, Forero was ultimately thrown into the spotlight after Ben Fogle visited her self-built Colombian treehouse for his New Lives in the Wild programme. This showcased Vanessa and her mother Marina Chapman’s remarkable story of kidnap and survival in the Colombian jungle as told in the book The Girl With No Name, which they co-wrote. This went onto become the National Geographic documentary: Woman Raised By Monkeys, for which Forero scored its soundtrack.

The success of the shows dragged her out of her solo living and into performing joyful, sellout shows of her own music.

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