Sting's Daughter Eliot Sumner Touring With Lykke Li

Sting's daughter Coco Sumner was signed to Island Records as 17-year-old in 2007, and continued a promising music career until circa 2011, when she dropped off the map.

Now, she's back with new music and a new name: Eliot Sumner.

Currently supporting Lykke Li on an international run of dates, Sumner explained her absence in a recent interview with HHH Happy.

"Well, I've been writing," she said. "Now I'm at a place where I'm ready to start releasing music again. I'm in a really good headspace and I feel more focused. I've had time to grow up a little bit, too, which was important."

Does she regret any of the material from her teenage years?

"I think I was just quite young," she said. "I don't regret anything but one of the things I will say is that I was too young to put my foot down. Nobody asked me if I wanted to do certain things and so I went with the flow. This time round it will be a lot more fun because I'll be doing stuff I want to do.

"I'm more proud of the music I'm making now. I think it's more relevant to who I am as a person and that it's matured a little bit. But that was always going to happen. I think I'm better at writing songs now than I was four years ago, both naturally and with practice."

Of course, it's tough to get away from paternal comparisons when your father is Sting.

"People do bring it up a lot," she said. "It bothers me when it's persistent. It is what it is. It's one of those challenges to overcome, to release music without having that, what's the word? Comparison. I do think it's fair though, because everyone wants and needs a reference."

We recently wrote about tourmate Lykke Li covering Drake's "Hold On We're Going Home." Check out the clip below:

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