Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock Active: 90's, 2000's Born: December 9, 1977 in Essex, England
Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Sheila Chandra, Erica Norimar, Flora Purim, Roxy Music, Portishead, Björk, Toyah Willcox, PJ Harvey, Karen Mantler, Urszula Dudziak, Nina Hagen, Laurie Anderson, Ithamara Koorax
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As a rule, group efforts are normally launched before a solo career -- not after a solo career is in full swing. First, the artist makes a name for himself/herself as part of a group, then the artist leaves the group to become a full-time solo performer. That's the standard procedure, but British singer/songwriter Imogen Heap took a different approach, having already established her solo credentials for several years before becoming half of the London-based duo Frou Frou. Although based in London, Heap was raised in Essex, England, where she first studied European classical piano. While attending boarding school years later, a teenaged Heap discovered alternative pop/rock, Euro-pop, and electronica, a musical mixture that effectively ended her previous desire to become a classical instrumentalist. With her focus now devoted to popular music, she signed with Almo Sounds in 1997, becoming a professional solo artist while still in her late teens.
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Release: August 25, 2009
Label: RCA/Megaphonic
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Release: July 8, 2008
Label: Megaphonic Records
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