In 2003 in her garden shed, 28-year-old Paulusma finished her debut album ‘Scissors In My Pocket’, a work of aching acoustic tenderness which immediately received world wide plaudits upon release in 2004. Paulusma was catapulted around the world, supporting Bob Dylan, Jamie Cullum, Coldplay, The Divine Comedy and Marianne Faithful; she toured the USA and Italy, Played Glastonbury, T in the Park and Cambridge Folk.

More recently, in 2021 Paulusma released ‘invisible Music: folk songs that influenced Angela Carter’, springing from her PHD research, and in 2022 Paulusma releases her eagerly-awaited fifth album ‘The Pivot On Which The World Turns’.