Lily Allen Biography

Biography

Being labeled a "pop 'It Girl' with the power to unite demographic tribes like no one since The Streets or the Arctic Monkeys" by the UK newspaper The Observer, Lily Allen smoothly managed to gain wide recognition at such a very young age. Born Lily Rose Beatrice Allen on May 2, 1985 in Hammersmith, London she was the daughter of actor/comedian Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Grew up in Shepherds Bush and Bloomsbury before finally settled in the North London borough of Islington, her early life was an unusual one as she changed school for an incredible thirteen times which consequently gave her little chance to make lasting friendships for sure. This circumstance inevitably prompted the girl to find way in her attempt to entertain herself, and music delightfully appeared to be the primary answer as she then constantly spent time to listen to everything from T. Rex, The Specials, and The Slits to Happy Mondays and jungle music, commonly known as drum and bass.

Never an enthusiastic learner at school subjects, Lily finally decided to give up her formal education at age fifteen with a wish to actualize herself in an entertaining way. An opportunity to reach ...

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the goal unexpectedly struck her when she found a job in a record store called Plastic Fantastic during a holiday in Ibiza that later on delightfully led her to get introduced to George Lamb, an influential A&R man and the former manager of Audio Bullys. The meeting soon brought the teen to meet music producer duo Future Cut who willingly composed tracks for the lyrics she had penned, through which she then was able to sign a deal under Parlophone/EMI's division Regal Records in late 2005 after a short-lived one with Warner Music.

Despite the label's insistence to send her off to pure hit making producers in recording the materials for her album, Lily boldly set up a blog on MySpace where she uploaded the tracks she had written. Much to her joy, the decision was proven right as more and more people were noticed streaming the songs, gradually built such a large exposure on her that drew the attention of UK's substantial mass media like NME Magazine, reviews site musicOMH.com, and online music blog Popjustice. Thanks to their positive publication, it did not take long for the artist to hear the demo of her track "LDN" being played on ...