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Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper, better known as Lily Allen (born 2 May 1985), is an English recording artist
and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen.
In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative. Allen abandoned school
and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. Afterwards, she created several
demo songs and, near the end of 2005, she created a profile on MySpace where she made some of her
recordings public.
A contract was signed with the label Regal Recordings ...read more
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper, better known as Lily Allen (born 2 May 1985), is an English recording artist
and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen.
In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative. Allen abandoned school
and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. Afterwards, she created several
demo songs and, near the end of 2005, she created a profile on MySpace where she made some of her
recordings public.
A contract was signed with the label Regal Recordings, as the views on MySpace rose to tens of thousands.
In 2006, she began to work on completing what would be her first studio album and its first mainstream single
"Smile" reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006. Her debut record, Alright, Still, was well
received on the international market, selling over 2.6 million copies and brought Allen a nomination at the
Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. She then began hosting her own talk-show,
Lily Allen and Friends, on BBC Three.
Her second major album release, It's Not Me, It's You, saw a genre shift for her, having more of an electropop feel,
rather than the ska and reggae influences of the first one. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart
and the Australian ARIA Charts and was appreciated by the critics, noting the singer's musical evolution and maturity.
It spawned the hit singles "The Fear" and "Fuck You", popular mostly in Europe. Allen and Amy Winehouse have been
credited with starting a process that led to the media-proclaimed "year of the women" in 2009 that has seen five
female artists making music of "experimentalism and fearlessness" nominated for the Mercury Prize.
During the autumn of 2010, Allen opened a fashion rental shop "Lucy in Disguise" with her sister Sarah, followed by
the 2011 launching of her own record label. « hide |
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