Rebecca Lucy Taylor

Everything you need to know about 'Teeth 'n' Smiles'

2026-03-15 01:40:00 UTC

Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem on her pivot from music to acting: ‘I felt a bit dead’

2026-03-15 01:40:00 UTC

Rebecca Lucy Taylor at Duke Of York’s Theatre Sparks West End Revival of Teeth ‘n’ Smiles

2026-03-15 01:40:00 UTC

Rebecca Lucy Taylor leads a 50th-anniversary West End revival of David Hare’s Teeth ‘n’ Smiles at the Duke of York’s Theatre, a production that opens with fresh material from the actor and singer-songwriter and runs from 13 March to 6 June 2026. Rebecca Lucy Taylor Leads the Revival The new staging puts Rebecca Lucy Taylor …

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Rebecca Lucy Taylor (born 15 October 1986), also known by her stage name Self Esteem, is an English musician, songwriter and actress. First known as one half of the band Slow Club, she launched a solo career as Self Esteem with the single "Your Wife" in 2017, followed by the studio albums Compliments Please in 2019, Prioritise Pleasure in 2021 and A Complicated Woman in 2025. A multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and theatre composer, she won the 2021 BBC Music Introducing Artist of the Year Award and achieved a nomination for the Mercury Prize in 2022 with Prioritise Pleasure. From September 2023 to March 2024 she performed the lead role of Sally Bowles in the West End production of Cabaret.

Taylor was born and grew up in Rotherham, England. Her father was a health and safety advisor and an amateur musician in a band, and her mother was a secretary. She attended Wales High School in Rotherham where she credits music teacher Antony Wright with teaching her to sing. Her main interests as a child were music, dance and cricket and she has described herself as a "choir nerd" while at school.