![]() Wood continues to manage the artist via his new company, Radius Music. Modern and Wood formed Modernwood Management, and managed Heap until 2006, when Modernwood was dissolved. Consequently, a few months later she signed her first record contract at 18 to independent record label Almo Sounds. After school, she went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London.Įarly work as musician (including work with Acacia)Īfter being introduced to Nik Kershaw by his manager Mickey Modern, Heap and Kershaw recorded four demos that Mickey Modern took to Rondor Music. She also taught herself to play the guitar and drums, and subsequently two percussion/idiophone instruments, the array mbira and the Hang. Heap did not get along well with the music teacher at her boarding school, so she principally taught herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production (on Atari computers). By the age of thirteen, she had begun writing songs. ![]() Heap's mother (an art therapist) and her father (a construction rock retailer) separated when she was twelve. She attended Friends School, a private, Quaker-run boarding school in Saffron Walden. Heap played music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several instruments including piano, cello and clarinet. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened." Biography Early life I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. She has stated "Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mum or my dad. Heap states that her song lyrics come from personal experience, but are not straightforwardly confessional. She also mixes ambient sound into her music (such as the sound of a frying pan in use cooking food, in the background of her song "My Secret Friend") and has commented that "certain sounds give the music a width and a space, and that's important." Heap extensively uses manipulated electronic sounds as an integral part of her music. Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself. I like to breathe my own life into these sounds, and I do try to keep the 'air' in the music. ![]() I would record live drums, and then I would spend a day editing them to take the life out of them. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. As a guest player and collaborator she has played rock ( Jeff Beck), hip-hop (Urban Species) and theatre/film music. Musical and songwriting styleįor her solo work, as well as her work with Frou Frou and Acacia, Heap plays heavily produced and arranged pop incorporating elements of rock, dance and electronica. ![]() She has produced three solo albums, the latest of which is the 2009 Ellipse, a North American chart success that earned Heap two Grammy nominations, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes. Imogen Jennifer Heap ( / m d n h i p / born 9 December 1977 in the London Borough of Havering) is an English singer-songwriter and composer. ![]()
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