A self-taught DJ who quit her £50,000 a year job to follow her dream will perform at Glastonbury. 

Sammy Dean, 50, was a sales manager at a newbuild property developer for more than 20 years when she decided to re-learn how to mix songs in lockdown.

After playing at a few festivals, she jacked in her job to pursue her passion of playing house music full-time.

And after performing at Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset, last year, she's been invited back to play for the second time.

Mum-of-two Sammy said: "I played in one of the bars and I was really grateful to have that opportunity.

"I've managed to get myself another set and play again so I'm just working my way up

"When I started playing, there was only around 40 or 50 people but by the end of my two-hour set, it was absolutely rammed and you couldn't get in.”

Sammy taught herself to DJ when she was a teenager and would play at small venues, but she stopped when she had her daughters Maddox, 21, and Rhea, 18.

But she still had the vinyl decks in her house in Warrington, Cheshire, so decided to re-teach herself how to play the music during lockdown.

She said: "I taught myself how to mix but I only ever really played at house parties and then I played at a few small venues in London in the nineties.

Sammy decided to leave her old job, where she earned around £50,000 a year, because she didn't have enough holidays to keep going to different festivals.

Sammy, who now also works as a freelance estate agent, plans to release another track this summer and also hopes to perform at more festivals this year.

Sammy has urged others to not worry about their age and if they want to do something, then they should do it anyway.

But she wants to remind people that she does most of her gigs for free and wouldn't tell someone to quit their job, unless they had 'money behind them to do it.'

Sammy said: "A lot of this is unpaid to start with - I don't want to give the illusion that this is an easy ride and you will get loads of money.

"It doesn't matter how old you are, if there's something that you want to do then do it because you die with memories, not dreams."