Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen left school when she was 15 and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. In 2005, she made some of her recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay on BBC Radio 1.
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Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen left school when she was 15 and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. In 2005, she made some of her recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay on BBC Radio 1 and a contract with Regal Recordings. Her debut record, Alright, Still, was well received, selling over 2. 6 million copies worldwide and bringing Allen nominations at the Grammy Awards, the Brit Awards, and the MTV Video Music Awards. In 2008, she hosted her own television talk show, Lily Allen and Friends, on BBC Three. In 2009, her second studio album, It’s Not Me,. It’s You, saw a genre shift, having more of an electropop feel, rather than the ska and reggae influences of the first one. Sheezus, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and No Shame debuting at number eight. In 2018, Allen released her autobiographical book, My Thoughts Exactly. Allen is the goddaughter of Wild Colonials vocalist Angela McCluskey and third-cousin of singer Sam Smith. Allen attended 13 schools, including Prince Charles’s junior alma mater, Hill House School, Millfield, Bedales School and was expelled from several of them for drinking and smoking. Allen and Amy Winehouse were credited with starting a process that led to the \”year of the women\” media label in 2009 that saw five female artists making music of \”experimentalism and fearlessness\” nominated for the Mercury Prize.
She has released two further albums: SheezUS and No shame. Allen was co-produced by Elizabeth Elizabeth in the 1998 film, which her mother co-wrote. She appeared as a lady-in-waiting in the music video to the song “Vindaloo” She dropped out of school at age 15, not wanting to work for the next third of her life, to set herself up with a pension. She earned money by working at a Plastic Fantastic record store and dealing ecstasy in Ibiza. She remained with friends in Antoni de Porti but remained staying with friends instead of staying with her mother. Allen’s mother was from a working class Portsmouth family, and was 17 when she gave birth to Sarah. Allen has an older sister, Sarah; a younger brother, actor Alfie ; and a younger sister, Rebecca. Allen appeared in The Comic Strip Presents… episode \”The Yob\”, which her father had co-written. When she was four, her father left the family. Allen’s father was a Welsh-born comedian, and filmProducer Alison Owen, and her mother was a working-class Portsmouth family,. Her family were devout Catholics. At the age of 11, Allen sang at a school concert. Allen told Loveline that she knew that music was something she needed to do either as a lifelong vocation or to get it out of her system.
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