Duffy makes rare appearance in music teaser years after horrific kidnap ordeal

Singer Duffy looks set for a big music comeback after remixing one of her most iconic songs into a funky remix and fans are obsessed.

The Welsh singer-songwriter and actress, 40, whose real name is Aimée Anne Duffy – broke out in early 2008 with her international smash hit Mercy.

Her debut album Rockferry sold over two million copies in the UK, and its success was followed up with three Brit Awards and a Grammy for best pop vocal.

However, Duffy vanished from the music industry in 2011, with a planned third album unexpectedly shelved and several tour appearances suddenly cancelled.

While the singer has been under the radar in the last few years, she surprised fans with a garage remix to her hit track.

In the video the singer is seen miming the lyrics with club visuals appearing with the lyrics in front.

Fans expressed their excitement in the comments with @robbierollie writing: ‘I’m overwhelmed with happiness. So good to see you Duffy!’

Dedicated fan page @duffynews added: ‘It is so good to see her face.’

@robbiepdk commented: ‘Oh my god I am SO excited!!!’

Hailing from Bangor in Wales, Duffy went on to win three Brit Awards and her debut record proved more successful than even Adele’s 19, which in 2008 only sold 500,000 albums in the UK after its release in January that year.

The year later Duffy – devoted to her beloved Wales – turned down a role in a Hollywood film to star in a movie called Patagonia about Welsh Argentines.

After splitting from her management company Rough Trade – the team behind Rockferry – Duffy then dropped her second album, Endlessly, in 2010 which was received tepidly when compared to the rip-roaring success of Rockferry.

In February 2011, it was announced Duffy would be taking an indefinite break from music, but that she planned on releasing another album at some point.

A statement from her representative at the time simply said she was taking a break before starting on her next album, but a friend was quoted saying she was ready to settle down and ‘live in the country’ with her international Welsh rugby player boyfriend Mike Phillips. They broke up in May that year.

The source added, as per Wales Online: ‘She’s really down about the last album, Endlessly. It didn’t sell well and charted terribly and she isn’t trying again and making a comeback. She wants to have a quiet life and start over.’

But the third album never came. Apart from a brief reappearance in the film Legend, in which she beautifully sang the poignant 1960s crooner Make The World Go Away in a dusty bar, no one heard from her again.

That’s until 2020, when Duffy bravely revealed that her absence was not due to a second album flop, or the pressures of fame – as some assumed – but because of an unimaginable experience she endured where she was subjected to a kidnap plot.

‘You can only imagine the amount of times I thought about writing this. The way I would write it, how I would feel thereafter,’ she began in a raw post.

Duffy revealed she’d spent her time away from the spotlight trying to deal with the traumatic experience.

She added: ‘But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine.’

‘You wonder why I did not choose to use my voice to express my pain? I did not want to show the world the sadness in my eyes. I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it is broken? And slowly it unbroke.’

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