Dreams of stardom could soon be coming true for Enfield singer TayTay Starhz.

The former former pupil of Oasis Hadley Academy in Enfield is one fifth of Franklin Lake, who are in the middle of their first UK tour and have recently released debut four-track EP Supersonic.

The band has already performed alongside artists such as Olly Murs, Dappy and Union J. and last month and played to an audience of 70,000 at the Man United Legends vs Bayern Munich Allstars event at the Old Trafford Stadium.

Half Turkish Cypriot, half Irish, TayTay has music in his blood as he is the great nephew of Paddy Sweeney from renowned Irish folk band The Dublin City Ramblers.

He suffers from dyslexia but that hasn't let this stop him pursuing his dream and he has written tracks for the band's upcoming release album Crash The Party which they recorded at The Chocolate Factory in north London, with producer and Mobo award-winner Tre Jean-Marie who has worked with Kylie Minogue, Wretch 32and Lana Del Rey among others.

He'll be coming back to his home turf next month to perform with bandmates Jude Read, Carl Hainsby, Tom Marvin and Ed Goacher at The O2 Academy Islington on August 31.

Listen to Supersonic at https://soundcloud.com/shiplap-studios/supersonic

Details: twitter.com/franklinlake_ , facebook.com/FranklinLake1

It sat on a shelf for years but duo Par-le have finally released their debut album The Light Years.

Miles James from Haringey and Alex Bonfanti from Camden are recent signings to Michael Kiwanuka and Christian Gregory's Crouch End-based label Movement Records.

Both are session musicians and producers and met when they were booked on a gig together in their late teens.

They started writing the album, inspired by the funk, soul and boogie era of the late '70s and early '80s, in 2008 and recording and mixing it in their Golders Green studio.

But work commitments such as playing bass for Tom Jones’ record in 2008 and going on tour with Jesse Ware in 2013 and moving out of their studio in 2014 meant the project got put on hold again and again.

It was finally released on Monday and Alex says: “It’s a great feeling. The album has been finished for about three years and literally shelved. Some of the songs are maybe even seven years old. But being session musicians and having to earn a living meant we were out on the road a fair bit which made it hard for us to be in the same place at the same time and then before you know it half the years has gone by.”

The duo play all the instruments and sing backing vocals and collaborated with friends and lead vocalists Ade Omotayo and Nadine Charles to complete the six-track album.

Alex says: “A lot of albums nowadays have 24 tracks on it and I can’t see how they are all great music that you want to listen to. We only wanted to fill it with tracks that were perfect.”

He says it is a boogie record with soul and funk but with an early 80s production sound and their aim is to really speak to people through their music- which is why they named themselves Par-le which means to speak.

Details: par-le.com, Twitter: @par_le

At school when his classmates were playing Danny Ladwa would sit and write songs.

He had his first gig aged 16 back in Nottingham where he grew up and then moved to London aged 17 to pursue his dream of being a musician.

The 33-year-old from Crouch End, who in 2012 played in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt for The Great Convergence, has now released his debut album Unfolding, a mix of reggae, hip-hop, electronica and soul.

"I feel like the album encapsulates the winding journey of my life with the many powerful and influential events that have occurred along the way, " says Danny who recorded it with producer and co-writer Gaudi at Steelgrass Recording Studio in Hawaii, Blue Lotus Temple in California, Metatron Studio in London.

He also recorded a female vocal in a Hawaiian cave, was inspired to create track That Sound by a sunset climb up Mount Sinai and say the album title came to him in a dream.

Details:dannyladwa.com