Sophie Frances Cooke, better known as Frances, is a singer-songwriter originally from Newbury, Berkshire. She is approaching the final year of her music degree at Sir Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and is already interacting with the music industry as both a performer and songwriter. She has been a Fresh On The Net favourite as chosen by the public and the BBC Introducing team and has had support from Radio DJ Tom Robinson at BBC6 music with her debut track "Coming Up For Air".