| Name |
Florence Welch |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
English |
| Date of Birth |
28-August-1986 |
| Place of Birth |
Camberwell, London, England |
| Famous for |
Singing |
Florence Welch is an English musician, singer and songwriter. She is known for being the lead singer of the band Florence and the Machine. According to Welch, "The name Florence and the Machine started off as a private joke that got out of hand. I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine’; before realizing that name was so long it'd drive me mad." In 2006, Welch's performances with summers in small London venues under the joint name Florence Robot/Isa Machine began to attract notice.
In 2007, Welch recorded with a band named Ashok, who released an album titled Plans on the Filthy Lucre/About Records label. This album included the earliest version of her later hit "Kiss with a Fist", which at this point was titled "Happy Slap". She signed a contract for Ashok with a manager, but feeling that she was "in the wrong band" she resigned, which cancelled the contract. Florence and the Machine is managed by Mai read Nash (one half of the DJ duo Queens of Noize), who decided to manage the singer when an inebriated Welch followed Nash into the toilets at a club and sang Etta James' 1962 song "Something's Got a Hold on Me". At the beginning of 2010, early in the stages of writing the new F+M album, Welch was approached by her label with an offer to go to Los Angeles and work with US producers and writers of American Pop music. At first she found the offer tantalizing, saying, "I love big, American pop music. I'm a total sucker for it." She thought she could put her own stamp on that style of music. After she looked at the diary sent to her she changed her mind saying to herself "'No. No. No. No. No! I can't do that. This is too weird. I can't just suddenly leave behind everything that made 'Lungs'". The first demo session occurred in January 2010 with Welch and Paul Epworth at a small London Studio. Numerous producers wanted to work with her but Welch rejected the offers because she wanted Ceremonials to be a better version of Lungs with a "more dark, more heavy, bigger drum sounds, bigger bass, but with more of a whole sound".
For the rest of the year work on the album continued only intermittently because Lungs became popular in the United States requiring extensive touring. No Light, No Light. Was recorded on an all-night tour bus in Amsterdam with Isabella "Machine" summers. In July 2012 Welch was frightened when she felt something snap in her vocal chords. Welch was told she could risk permanent damage to her vocal chords if she did not suspend performing for a week. As a result the group cancelled two scheduled European Festival performances. The song called "Seven Devils" was used in the television series Revenge and Game Of Thrones and on the movie trailer of Beautiful Creatures.
In October 2012, she featured on Scottish singer-songwriter and producer Calvin Harris's song Sweet Nothing (song). "Sweet Nothing" debuted and peaked at number one on the UK singles chart. The song was taken from Harris's third studio album 18 Months and is the fifth single from the album. This marks Welch's second number one in the UK in her entire career. "Sweet Nothing" also peaked at number one in Ireland and number two in Australia and New Zealand. "Sweet Nothing" was certified Platinum in Australia.
