KARIMA FRANCIS
PHOTO ROSIE MATHESON
Karima Francis first made waves across the UK music scene in 2009. But after a promising start, including an appearance on the coveted BBC show Later With Jools Holland, the Blackpool-born artist disappeared – struggling through what she described in a 2015 interview with the Manchester Evening News as a “mini crisis”. Now, almost a decade after her music career first took off, Francis is back – and so is the fire in her belly.