Laura Beatrice Marling has won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist back in 2011. Laura was also nominated for the same award at the 2012, 2014, 2016, & 2018 Brit Awards.
Marling joined her older sisters in London at age 16 to pursue a career in music. She played with a number of groups and released her debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, in 2008.
Her first album, her second album I Speak Because I Can, her fourth album Once I Was an Eagle, and her seventh album Song for Our Daughter were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2020, respectively.
Her sixth record, Semper Femina, was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Album category, as was Song for Our Daughter.
Her songwriting is associated with sex and relationships, the modern concept of womanhood, and trauma.
Marling is the youngest of three daughters. Her mother is a music teacher. Marling's father, Sir Charles William Somerset Marling, 5th baronet ran a recording studio, introduced her to folk music, and shaped her musical taste. She learned guitar at an early age.
Marling was privately educated at Waverly Primary School in Finchampstead, Berkshire and Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire.
Last Friday, Laura released her eighth record, Patterns in Repeat. Marling co-produced the album with Dom Monks. It was supported by three singles: Patterns, No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can & Child of Mine.
Come back tomorrow for more Laura Marling.
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