Laura Marling won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards and was nominated for the same award at the 2012,2014,2016, and 2018 Brit Awards.
32 Facts About Laura Marling
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Laura Marling played with a number of groups and released her debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, in 2008.
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Laura Marling's 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.
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Laura Marling was privately educated at Waverly Primary School in Finchampstead, Berkshire and Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire.
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Laura Marling joined the original line-up of indie folk band Noah and the Whale and appears as a background vocalist on their debut album, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down; however, she left the group before the album's 2008 release due to a dissolved relationship with the band's lead singer, Charlie Fink.
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Laura Marling later collaborated with Mystery Jets and contributed guest vocals to their 2008 single "Young Love".
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Laura Marling was invited to tour with Jamie T after he attended her second solo gig.
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Laura Marling has toured with a number of other musicians including Adam Green from the anti-folk band The Moldy Peaches.
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Laura Marling performed at the 2007 O2 Wireless Festival and at the first Underage Festival in August 2007 at Victoria Park, East London, before releasing her debut EP "London Town" on WayOutWest Records.
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Laura Marling once chose to perform on the street after being denied entry to one of her own performances for being underage.
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On 8 March 2013, Laura Marling confirmed that the album would be released on 27 May 2013 and would be released in the US one day later.
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Laura Marling's fourth album's first single, "Master Hunter", was released on 17 April 2013, while Once I Was an Eagle entered the UK charts at number 3.
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Laura Marling explained during the post-release promotional period that she sought a minimalist approach for the fourth album and, in contrast to the previous two albums, recorded all of the songs without a band.
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Laura Marling revealed in a September 2013 interview that she had enough songs for a fifth album at the time, and she will "maybe make this record and then have a big, long, hard think about what I've done".
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Laura Marling added that she is sometimes surprised by her profession in relation to the music industry as a whole and often thinks, "oh, I exist in this industry" when listening to the radio, saying that she is unsure if she wants to remain in such a position.
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On 16 December 2014, Laura Marling announced that her fifth studio album would be titled Short Movie.
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The album features 13 songs composed by Laura Marling and was released in the UK on 23 March 2015 and one day later in the US.
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Laura Marling began recording songs for the album shortly after completing the solo tour for Once I Was an Eagle.
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Laura Marling produced the album alongside Dan Cox and Matt Ingram.
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In October 2015, Laura Marling announced a short Tour de Ville through the US, where she would be previewing material from her forthcoming sixth studio album.
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In November 2016, Laura Marling announced the release of Semper Femina in March 2017, with "Soothing" being the first single from the record.
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Laura Marling received her first Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album for Semper Femina, but did not win the award.
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In 2018, Laura Marling announced that she would be recording an album with Mike Lindsay of the band Tunng, under the name Lump.
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Laura Marling provided the vocals and lyrics, while Lindsay played most of the instruments on the album.
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On 5 April 2020, Laura Marling announced the upcoming release of her seventh solo album via an Instagram post, releasing a song off the album, "Held Down", at midnight.
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The pandemic caused Laura Marling to cancel many 2020 tour dates.
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On 22 March 2021, Laura Marling announced dates for a UK tour in October 2021 performing the songs from Song for Our Daughter live for an audience for the first time.
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On 5 May 2021, Laura Marling announced the follow-up album to her collaboration with Mike Lindsay as Lump, entitled Animal, along with the release of the lead single of the same name.
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Laura Marling later won "Best Actress" at the 72-Hour National Film Challenge.
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Laura Marling moved to Silver Lake in Los Angeles, California, in 2013, before relocating to London in December 2014.
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In February 2023, Laura Marling announced, via Instagram, that she had given birth to a daughter.