With a pressing deadline, the 16-year-old, pictured above, wrote the melody and lyrics for With You in 30 minutes flat.
But as soon as Naomi (pictured) played her haunting ballad about a long distance relationship to her music teacher at Oldham Hulme Grammar School, Rachel Shapey spotted its potential.
“When I heard the song I was amazed,” said Ms Shapey, who started teaching at Oldham Hulme a year ago.
“A lot of GCSE music students choose to write pop songs but I’d never heard anything so accomplished or mature before. It was better than many songs on the radio.”
Once Naomi had completed her GCSE exams in June, she recorded the song and late last month it was released nationally by Nova Distribution, part of Universal Music.
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