Featured Artist of Nov 25, 2020
with the song: Lockdown

Artist's Biography

Having endured being constantly called 'Petula Clark throughout her childhood and the majority of her teenage years, Petula had had enough. As she was also looking to work in music and to stop the constant references to her better-known namesake, decided to reverse the spelling of her name with the addition of 'Ena' at the end.

Despite this, the name Alutepena ('A-loo-ter-peh-nah), was still proving too much of a mouthful. With many struggling to pronounce her new name - especially when it came to introducing her at gigs and Festivals, decided to remedy this by shortening her name to 'Pena' (Peh-nah), a version of the name that she is happy to be referred by.

To keep people 'on their toes' when it comes to releases, she refers to herself by her full name of Alutepena Hughes-John with the shortened version of 'Pena Hughes-John' for her album releases.

Pena began writing songs back in her teens but stopped writing for many years until a breakup from a long term relationship signalled the return to her songwriting. In 2017, whilst teaching herself the Ukulele, started writing songs again. As well as the Ukulele, she recently began learning to play the electric guitar and occasionally 'dabbled' with some amateur bass playing.

'Lockdown' was written back in April 2020, just as the UK had begun going into national lockdown. The song describes the freedoms many had taken for granted being no more ('the holidays lost, Summer hols 1 forgot'). The majority of us can concur with this.
 

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