Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper ( born 2 May 1985 as Lily Rose Beatrice Allen in Hammersmith, London), known by her birth and stage names Lily Allen, is a British pop singer and show host. The commercial breakthrough came in summer 2006 with her debut single Smile.
Biography
Lily Allen was born as the daughter of actor and comedian Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her parents separated when she was four years old. Result of the separation were frequent moves. Between their sixth and fifteenth year she attended thirteen different schools. Repeatedly she was also referred to. Finally she came to a boarding school, which she left at age 15. She began training as a florist, she broke off after a short time. Allen came early into contact with drugs. By his own admission it was between 16 and 19 years most of the time in cannabis intoxication. My brother Alfie Allen, Theon Greyjoy known as from the fantasy series Game of Thrones. Him she dedicated the song Alfie on their debut album Alright, Still.
On the morning of 28 October 2010, in the sixth month pregnant singer was brought because of severe abdominal pain in a hospital like their management reported. The doctors could not save the unborn boy. Shortly thereafter, Allen was hospitalized with a life-threatening blood infection in the hospital. The cause of septicemia is, according to the doctors a week earlier suffered miscarriage. It was the second child she had lost during pregnancy. In January 2008, she suffered a miscarriage when she was three months pregnant by musician Ed Simons.
On November 27, 2010, she announced her engagement to Sam Cooper, whom she married on June 11, 2011 in St. James the Great church in Cranham, Gloucestershire, where her third pregnancy was known. On 25 November 2011 Allen took a healthy daughter. On January 8, 2013 were her second child, also a girl, was born.
Musical career
During a family vacation on Ibiza, she met the music agent George Lamb know who brought them to the music producers Future Cut in contact. After both their self-written lyrics read, they wrote on this basis some items. Allen sent their demo tapes to various record companies. Finally she got the end of 2005 a contract with Regal Records ( Parlophone / EMI).
Still empty: Although their first single Smile in 2006 was one of the best selling in the UK and the album Alright, Still not turned out as a shop keeper, she went at the award ceremony of the BRIT Awards 2007 ( singer, album, song, newcomers four nominations in the categories) from. Lily Allen can also be heard on Robbie Williams' album Rudebox as a background singer, among others Bongo Bong / Je ne t'aime plus, a cover of Manu Chao and Keep On. They also can be heard on album Finding Forever Commons in the song Drivin ' Me Wild. She was also published as a background singer for the 2008 third album, Off with Their Heads to hear the Kaiser Chiefs. Their song Oh My God was covered by Mark Ronson 2007, with Lily Allen for contributing vocals. This song reached # 8 in the UK.
Since February 2008, she hosted the talk show Lily Allen and Friends on BBC Three.
As a pre-release single to her second album It's Not Me, It's You, which was released on February 6, 2009 the song The Fear was published. It has already been released as a single piece in various music download sites since December 5, 2008. The single was followed on 23 January 2009. A second single, the song appeared Not Fair on May 8, 2009.
In September 2009, Allen publicly criticized not paid music downloads and taught its own anti - filesharing blog under the title "It's not all right " one, in which they are outraged over file sharers. A short time later, she was transferred itself filesharing and then earned ridicule for their double standards. In addition, it was criticized that they promoted at the beginning of her career her rise through free music downloads yourself and the internet has used as a marketing tool and it now intends to prohibit a successful musician. A few days later she put her blog on the grounds that her " the insults too much" were. Via Twitter, she explained that she would not renew her record contract expiring and the thing took care of making money with the music for her and she wanted to concentrate on her acting work. End of 2009, she explained, " Facebook, Blogging, which had become an addiction ," she was going to entirely refrain from and do not use more modern means of communication. The end of 2011 they began to regularly communicate via Twitter.
On 30 October 2009, the single was released in Germany 22. 2010 their cooperation with the British rapper Professor Green has been published. The song Just Be Good to Green reached # 5 on the charts in the UK.
On June 20, 2012 Lily Allen announced via Twitter that she, along with Greg Kurstin working in the studio on new music, which was confirmed in August 2012 by her spokeswoman.
The song True Love, which is located on P! Nk's sixth studio album The Truth About Love is a duet between the two singers, and was co-written by Allen. The single was released in mid-July with Lily Cooper as a new artist name.
On 13 November 2013, the music video was released for the new single Hard Out Here, which she published again under their usual pseudonym Lily Allen. For the video she hired six dancers that perform explicit dancing in bikini. The song and the video are inspired by musicians like Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus, the Allen's view, too much skin show to succeed to the music business. The single itself was released in the UK a week after the video where it reached number 9. In Germany the song in January 2014 was used as theme music for the eighth season of the show " I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here " employed. Then The single reached number 2 in the German charts and is thus Allen's first Top 10 hit. Furthermore she published the end of November 2013 for the Christmas advertising the company John Lewis a cover version of the song Somewhere Only We Know Keane the band, which reached # 1 on the UK Singles Chart. This left two of her songs at the same time the top 10 singles charts in the UK.
On 14 January 2014, the premiere of the second single Air Balloon followed the third studio album Sheezus on the British radio station BBC1. On 7 February, the singer unveiled the official music video for the song on the video platform YouTube. The release of the song took place on 2 March 2014.
The singer announced on 21 February 2014 that their third studio album entitled Sheezus contributes, in reference to Kanye West's Yeezus. The track list of appearing at the May 5, 2014 the album was announced on 10 March 2014. In addition, the music video for the third extraction Our Time was released the album on the video platform YouTube, which will be released on 27 April 2014.
Discography
Studio albums
Awards
- Digital Music Awards 2006 Best Pop Artist
- Worst clothes ( Worst Dressed )
- Editor's Special Award
- For Smile
- British female solo artist