The song "Wings" was also featured on The Vampire Diaries episode " Home", which aired on (her eighteenth birthday). The first official single, "Wings", was released on 22 July 2013 and a second song, "All You Never Say", was sent to subscribers of Birdy's mailing list and posted on YouTube on 15 August 2013. The video included footage of Birdy in the studio along with a preview of two songs, " Wings" and "No Angel", which are both featured on the album. She then announced the release of her second studio album, entitled Fire Within, via a YouTube video on 10 July 2013. On 16 February 2013, Birdy sang at Sanremo Music Festival 2013. She also made appearances on shows such as Sunrise and X Factor singing " Skinny Love" and " People Help the People".īirdy at the SWR3 New Pop Festival in Baden-Baden 2013
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In October 2012, Birdy sang live on French TV music programme Taratata, performing " Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen.īirdy paid a visit to Australia in August 2012, during which Dolly magazine took her on a visit to Taronga Zoo in Sydney. On 29 August 2012 Birdy performed ANOHNI's song "Bird Gerhl" (from Antony and the Johnsons' I Am a Bird Now album) during the opening ceremony of the London Paralympic Games. This included her cover of Ed Sheeran's "The A Team" and her song from The Hunger Games soundtrack, "Just a Game". On 7 August 2012, Birdy released her "Live in London" EP, which contained eight songs. In June 2012, Birdy contributed the song "Learn Me Right" with Mumford & Sons to the Pixar film Brave for which she received her first Grammy Award nomination. In August 2012 her début album peaked at number one in Australia, while the singles " Skinny Love" and " People Help the People" peaked at numbers 2 and 10 respectively. 40 in Ireland and number 1 in Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia. īirdy's eponymous debut album of cover versions (plus one original song written by her) was released on 7 November 2011 the album peaked at No. Her cover of "Shelter" was also featured on The Vampire Diaries episode " The End of the Affair", which aired on 29 September 2011. In the session, she performed both " Shelter" and "The A Team". On 19 July 2011, she performed in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. Since then, Birdy has covered a number of songs, including " The A Team" by Ed Sheeran and the xx's "Shelter". "Skinny Love" peaked at number 1 in the Netherlands. The song was also featured on The Vampire Diaries episode " The Sun Also Rises", which aired on. The official music video for the song was directed by Sophie Muller. The single was chosen as "Record of the Week" by UK radio DJ Fearne Cotton, resulting in it being added to BBC Radio 1's B‑list playlist as soon as it was released in March 2011. The song became her first hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at 17. In January 2011, at the age of 14, Birdy released a cover version of Bon Iver's song " Skinny Love". In 2009, Birdy performed live on piano for BBC Radio 3's Pianothon in London. She performed her own song, called "So Be Free", at the competition in front of 2,000 people. She won both the under-18s category and the Grand Prize, against 10,000 other competitors. In 2008, while still a 12-year-old pupil at Durlston Court Prep School, Birdy won the UK talent contest Open Mic UK, a spinoff of the Live and Unsigned competition. īirdy's stage name comes from the nickname her parents gave her as a baby, because she opened her mouth like a little bird when being fed. īirdy's second given name, Lucilla, was the name of her father's stepmother. She has English, Belgian (Flemish), Dutch and Scottish ancestry. Her great-uncle was the actor Sir Dirk Bogarde.
Her maternal grandfather was Captain John Christopher Ingram Roper-Curzon, the 20th Baron Teynham, and she grew up on the family estate near Lymington, Hampshire.
īirdy studied at Durlston Court Prep School in Barton on Sea, at Priestlands School, and at Brockenhurst College, a sixth form college in the New Forest. She also has two elder half-brothers, Moses and Sam, from her father's first marriage. Her parents were married in 1995 and have two other children: Jake, born in 1997, and Caitlin in 1999. She stated that listening to classical music and the songs her mother played has been a big influence on her sound. Birdy learned to play the piano at the age of seven, and began writing her own music at the age of eight. Her father is Rupert Oliver Benjamin van den Bogaerde, a writer (including of Daybreak Into Darkness under the name Rupert Bogarde) her mother is Sophie Patricia (née Roper-Curzon), a concert pianist. Birdy was born on, in Lymington, England, United Kingdom.
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