Una Foden announces that she’s stepping away from The Saturdays to launch her solo career

UNA Foden is the latest member of The Saturdays to go solo, revealing that she’ll be following in the footsteps of her idol Sheryl Crow and going down the singer/songwriter route.

Speaking exclusively to Dan Wootton for Bizarre’s Facebook Live, the 34-year-old singer shared that she’s signed a deal with Decca Records, whose acts include The Rolling Stones, Dolly Parton and Paul McCartney, and will be releasing music soon.

“Before I was in The Saturdays I was going down the singer songwriter route, when I was 12 my mum past me down her acoustic guitar and I just picked it up and was singing.

“From there I started writing my own songs and that’s what I always wanted to do so I went down that route as Una Healy singer songwriter and took a different turn and went down The Saturdays route.”

Revealing that her songs will have be, “primarily pop rock folk,” and “very relatable and about lots of common emotions”, she added that her main inspiration is Sheryl Crow.

“I heard her singing All I Wanna Do when I was 12, and thinking that’s all I want to do is be like her with her guitar and singing songs that she wrote herself, with her style and everything about her music.”

However Saturdays fans fear not, as Una promises this isn’t the end of the band.
“It’s just a departure from The Saturdays, we’re all working on different things, we’re taking some time out, the band have not disbanded whatsoever, but it’s time that we focus on ourselves and have time outside the band.”