A late addition to the album was Faker Man, co-written with Lily Allen collaborator Blair MacKichan, while Jeremy Wheatley (Duffy, Sugababes, Robbie Williams) signed up to mix the album. Meanwhile, Deigman has been playing live with her own band - after a show at West London's Troubadour, they immediately offered her a residency. In November, she shared a stage with Kenny Thomas and in December, played to a crowd of two and a half thousand at London's City Hall, alongside Peter Kay and Bryan Adams.
Having met Adams (who has worked with Kennedy throughout his career) at his own show at 02 a few months ago, Deigman had the favour returned when the Canadian rocker turned up to one of her acoustic gigs.
"Eliot had played him my album and he said he wanted to come see me live," says Deigman. "I didn't think he would, then I was playing this little club in London and he came and stood right at the front. I was shaking all the way through."
Deigman's meeting with Rod Stewart was even more surreal. "My dad adores Rod Stewart," she says. "When we were kids, he had one of those six-slot CD players in the car, full of Rod albums. I was more in to the Spice Girls at the time and kept telling dad to turn Rod off. Then I grew up and realised how incredible he is. His voice is amazing. I also love artists like Lauryn Hill, Aretha, The Supremes and Stevie Wonder, but Rod Stewart is probably my biggest influence.
"A couple of months ago, my mum won dinner with Rod and Penny at a charity auction and took me along. We sat in this restaurant off Park Lane with them and, for ages, I couldn't say a word. In the end, I had to blurt out how big a fan I was or I wouldn't have been able to eat.
"My dad is Scottish and he and Rod got on really well - they even swopped phone numbers! I gave him a CD of a few of my songs when we left, but I didn't think he'd actually play it. Twenty minutes later he called dad to say he had listened to it three times already and absolutely loved it. He said he would do what he can to help me in the States.
"Now my dream is to do a duet with him. A year ago, if someone had suggested that, I would have laughed at them. But so much has happened already, I feel as though anything's possible."