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| Imogen Heap |
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“When I wrote my first record I didn’t actually comprehend that other people would listen to it.”
--Imogen Heap
| Date of Birth: December 9, 1977 |
| Birthplace: Essex, England |
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| Imogen Heap has been effortlessly fusing electronica, rock and pop since 1998, when she released her debut album, i Megaphone. In addition to her dazzling solo work, Imogen has also collaborated with Guy Sigsworth as part of the musical duo punch known as Frou Frou. |
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| Unlike other musical divas, Imogen isn’t driven by the compulsive need to become famous. “I just write music because I like writing music,” she says, “and hopefully that will never change.” |
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Imogen Heap was born December 9, 1977 in Essex, England. Although her unusual name sounds as though it was dreamed up by a record executive, it was actually given to her by her parents after much careful consideration. “My parents always joke about it,” she says. “They couldn’t call me things like Sarah because if I had an initial S, then mixed with Heap I would be 'sheep', and if I had Caroline or Christina then I’d be 'cheap'. So I. Heap wasn’t so bad.”
Nor was her upbringing too bad either. Imogen was encouraged by her parents to pursue her musical passions from an early age, and she quickly mastered the clarinet, cello and piano. By the age of 11 she had also begun writing songs and was already showing a keen knack for generating the kind of quirky lyrics that would one day make her famous.
Following a brief stint at the prestigious Brit Music School, Imogen signed her first record contract at the age of 17 to independent record label Almo Sounds. Imogen recalls it as being a strange and overwhelming time in her young life. “I never thought about being a rock artist or a pop artist or selling my songs as kind of a job because that was kind of like, a hobby for me,” she says. “So it all kind of happened and I didn't expect it and it just kind of came… within like six months of meeting [her agent] I had a record deal.”
That deal resulted in 1998’s i Megaphone, a 13-track album featuring the singles, "Getting Scared," "Shine," and "Come Here Boy." Although the record failed to chart, it did win universal praise from critics who favorably compared the songs to those of Kate Bush and Annie Lennox. |
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