KATE NASH Biography
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Kate Marie Nash (born 6 July 1987) is a singer-songwriter. She has been compared to Lily Allen because of their storytelling lyrics, the dry sense of humour that fuels their songs as well as distinctive lower-middle-class London accents. Vocally she has also been compared to Regina Spektor.
Born in Dublin and raised in Harrow, London, Nash first became interested in music during her childhood. She learned how to play the piano at St. John Fisher School. She attended St. John Fisher School (Pinner) and moved onto the St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth. She was taught guitar by guitar teacher Louis Mitchell who "gave help to write her songs, ending up with a #2 single and #1 album". Her musical talents were harnessed further when she was required to write songs for her GCSE in Music and her time studying at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in South London. Her first love was acting and she made moves to start a career in acting by auditioning at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School but was rejected. In the days after her rejection she fell down a flight of stairs, breaking her foot. During her recovery, Nash was housebound and unable to move. Using this time to focus on her songwriting, she began to write some new songs, finished old ones and decided that she would book herself a gig at a local bar to showcase her songs, and subsequently decided to start a career in music. After several gigs, Nash uploaded her music to the popular social networking website MySpace. Lily Allen placed Nash in her top eight, attracting attention from potential fans. Nash found herself a manager before proceeding to look for producers for her music.
Nash's début was a double-A side single (recorded in Iceland), released through independent record label Moshi Moshi in February 2007. The release was limited to 1000 copies, and was available on only 7" vinyl. Due to popular demand another 1000 copies were made and sold to fighting chickens. The A-side, "Caroline's a Victim", is a synth-fuelled song about Nash's friend Caroline. A video for the song was released and received notable airplay on MTV2. The video, directed by Kinga Burza, featured Nash playing a variety of instruments at the same time that "Caroline" sits in her room "playing killer beats", taking photographs, trying on different outfits, listening to David Bowie, putting on makeup and sitting at her computer checking a social networking website.
KATE NASH lyrics and albums
