Singer - Lily Allen - National Portrait Gallery postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Lily Allen, b.1985 by Nadov Kander, November 2008
• Publisher:  The National Portrait Gallery, London
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Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper^[1] (née Allen; born 2 May 1985), known professionally as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist and actress. She is the daughter of Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen abandoned school when she was 15 and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. In 2005, she made some of her recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay on BBC Radio One and a contract with Regal Recordings.

Her first mainstream single, ""Smile"", reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006.^[2] Her debut record, Alright, Still, was well received, selling over 2.6 million copies worldwide and brought Allen a nomination at the Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. She began hosting her own talk-show, Lily Allen and Friends, on BBC Three. Her second studio album, It's Not Me, It's You, saw a genre shift, having more of an electropop feel, rather than the ska and reggae influences of the first one. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and the Australian ARIA Charts and was well received by critics, noting the singer's musical evolution and maturity. It spawned the hit singles ""The Fear"" and ""Fuck You"", popular mostly in Europe. Allen and Amy Winehouse have been credited with starting a process that led to the media-proclaimed ""year of the women"" in 2009 that has seen five female artists making music of ""experimentalism and fearlessness"" nominated for the Mercury Prize.^[3]

In 2009 Allen announced that she would be taking a hiatus from musical activities. During 2010, Allen opened a fashion rental shop ""Lucy in Disguise"" with her sister Sarah,^[4][5] followed by the 2011 launching of her own record label.^[6] In 2013, Allen revealed that she had begun working on her third studio album. On November 12, 2013 Allen premiered the video for her first original song since 2009, ""Hard Out Here"", which will be released as a single on November 17.^[7]

Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London, daughter of Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen.^[8] She has an older sister, Sarah; a younger brother, Alfie Allen (who was the subject of her song ""Alfie""); and a younger sister Rebecca.^{[citation needed]} She has a number of half-siblings. She is the god-daughter of Wild Colonials vocalist Angela McCluskey.^[9]

At the age of three, Allen appeared on The Comic Strip Presents... episode ""The Yob"",^[10] which her father had co-written. When Allen was four years old, her father left the family.^[11] During her early childhood, Allen lived with her family on a council estate.^[12][13] They later settled in the North London borough of Islington. For a time, the family lived with comedian Harry Enfield while her mother dated him. The Clash singer and guitarist Joe Strummer was close to Allen. Allen has fond memories of the week and a half they spent together at the Glastonbury Festival as part of a regular collective centred on Strummer and her father. Strummer's musical past did not come into focus for Allen until after his death.^[14]

She attended some of the UK's most expensive fee-paying public schools; Allen attended 13 schools in all, including Prince Charles's junior alma mater, Hill House School, Millfield, Bedales School^[11] and was expelled from several of them for drinking and smoking.^[13][15][16] When Allen was 11, former University of Victoria music student Rachel Santesso overheard Allen singing ""Wonderwall"" by Oasis in the school's playground; impressed, Santesso, who later became an award-winning soprano and composer, called Allen into her office the next day and started giving her lunchtime singing lessons. This led to Allen singing ""Baby Mine"" from Disney's Dumbo at a school concert.^[17] Allen told Loveline that the audience was ""brought to tears at the sight of a troubled young girl doing something good"". At that point Allen said she knew that music was something she needed to do either as a lifelong vocation or to get it out of her system. Allen played piano to grade 5 standard and achieved Grade 8 in singing. She also played violin, guitar and trumpet as well as being a member of a chamber choir. Her first solo was ""In the Bleak Midwinter.""^[14] Allen made an appearance as a lady-in-waiting in the 1998 film Elizabeth, which was co-produced by her mother. She dropped out of school at age fifteen, not wanting to ""spend a third of her life preparing to work for the next third of her life, to set herself up with a pension for the next third of her life.""^[18]

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