1. Nerina Natasha Georgina Pallot was born on 26 April 1974 and is a British singer, songwriter and producer, who has released eight albums and over a dozen EPs.
24 Facts About Nerina Pallot
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Nerina Pallot was nominated for British Female Solo Artist at the 2007 BRIT Awards and nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for "Sophia" in the category of 'Best Song ' in the same year.
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Besides her own material, Pallot has written songs for Kylie Minogue and Diana Vickers.
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Nerina Pallot was born in London and brought up in Jersey by a half-French father and a mother from Prayag, India, together with her sister.
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Nerina Pallot played piano as a child and wrote her first song aged 13.
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Nerina Pallot has identified seeing singer and pianist Kate Bush perform her hit song "This Woman's Work" on television series Wogan as a catalyst for her to pursue a music career.
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Nerina Pallot attended Jersey College for Girls and received a music scholarship for Wellington College.
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Nerina Pallot released her debut album, Dear Frustrated Superstar, on Polydor records in August 2001.
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Nerina Pallot was dropped from the label mainly due to failing sales.
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When that proved insufficient for Nerina Pallot's needs, she remortgaged her house to complete the rest of the album.
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Nerina Pallot performed at the 2005 Guildfest music festival and headlined her own show at Bush Hall in Shepherd's Bush, London later that year.
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Nerina Pallot undertook her first full headlining tour in support of the Fires album in May 2006.
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Nerina Pallot worked with several big name co-writers in preparation for the follow-up to Fires, including Linda Perry and Rob Davis.
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Nerina Pallot wrote an album's worth of material with Rick Nowels.
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Nerina Pallot toured the UK in October 2009, including a performance at Glasgow's Oran Mor venue on Wednesday 7 October, showcasing songs from the new album The Graduate.
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Nerina Pallot confirmed her new album would be titled Year of the Wolf via her Twitter page on 21 January 2011.
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Nerina Pallot supported the releases with a handful of tour dates across the UK.
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In 2015, Nerina Pallot independently released her fifth studio album The Sound and the Fury via her own Idaho label.
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The album includes the track "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", which takes its title from Carson McCullers' debut novel of 1940 - and which Nerina Pallot herself has described as 'the best song I have ever written'.
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In 2024, Nerina Pallot released her eighth studio album, A Psalm for Emily Salvi.
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Nerina Pallot has released six videos to go with singles from Dear Frustrated Superstar, Fires, and Year of the Wolf.
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For "Damascus", Nerina Pallot is seen playing piano and singing in a recording studio.
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In early 2006, Nerina Pallot became engaged to Howard Willing, one of the producers who worked on her second album Fires, but the relationship ended later that year.
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Nerina Pallot married fellow Jersey resident and record producer Andy Chatterley in January 2007.