A TEENAGE songstress has put pen to paper following the death of her aunt to create a moving charity song in aid of Katharine House Hospice.

Fifteen-year-old Erin Lilley, from Bloxham, whose stage name is Erin Tiger Lilley, wrote Save Me after her aunt, Karen Homans, died of cancer last November. She visited Katharine House, in Adderbury, during her aunt’s stay there, and said: “It’s a wonderful place full of amazing and dedicated people. I thought I would say thank-you the only way I know how.

“Karen was very supportive of me and a massive part of my life. I was really upset when she passed away. I had promised her I would do something to raise money for charity.”

Erin first began playing piano at the age of seven and attends the Birmingham Ormiston Academy, which specialises in performing arts. She has also racked up experience playing at Bloxfest, the Banbury Folk Festival, the Bo Peep Cider Festival, Adderbury, and the Festival in the Forest in the Forest of Dean. Her musical family includes mum Sarah, 49, who also plays piano, dad Chris, 52, a software engineer proficient in drums and didgeridoo, and older brother Max, 18, who plays bass, guitar and drums.

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The inspiration for Save Me came when Erin and her mother were watching BBC drama Our Girl, about a young woman who joins the British army and forms a compassionate relationship with an eleven-year-old Afghan girl.

To learn more about Erin, including upcoming gigs, visit facebook.com/ErinTigerLilley