Name |
Lettie |
Height |
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Naionality |
English |
Date of Birth |
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Place of Birth |
London, England |
Famous for |
Singing |
Lettie is a London-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Lettie grew up in Suffolk, England.
She is a former Medieval History student obsessed with collecting pieces of the past in the forms of books, postcards, second hand shop finds and newspaper clippings.
Lettie met producer/writer David Baron in 2006 and has made three records with him, Age of Solo and Everyman (2008) and "Good Fortune, Bad Weather" (May 2012). The records were primarily recorded and produced at David’s home studio in Boiceville, NY. All three records have been independently released and are now being distributed by Proper Music Ltd.
In October 2009, Lettie performed a session at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios as part of 2009's Electric Proms. She performed Atmosphere, My Name Is, Red and Hang On, with Mike Mason on Alesis Ion and guitar. During the same month, Lettie embarked on her first European tour, supporting ex-Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy. Lettie appears as a singer and co-writer on Counting Waves on Sarah Fimm's White Birds EP.
She has supported Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Roger O’Donnell and played the ‘Introducing Stages’ at Glastonbury and Jimmy’s Farm in 2010.
In between albums she has written with Anthony Phillips (Genesis) and sung vocals for Ben Cocks for Atmosphere Music part of Universal Music Group and her voice has appeared on a number of commercials in the USA and Europe.
Lettie's new album produced and written with David Baron ‘Good Fortune, Bad Weather’ makes use of David's fine collection of unusual instruments such as moogs, syths. and arps. The album features the incredible musicianship of Award winning Grammy producer and guitarist Danny Blume, Zachary Alford, (David Bowie) on drums and Sara Lee,(Gang of Four, B52s, Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Fripp), D James Goodwin,(Devo, Bravery, Sol Seppy, Snowflake) on guitars, Jeremy Bernstein, guitars/vocals as well as David Baron on synthesizers and everything else. Her new album has garnered favourable many reviews across the board including 4 stars from the Irish Times