Lily Allen
Alternative rock, Celebrity
1985 –
Who is Lily Allen?
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper, known professionally as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist and actress. She is the daughter of Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen abandoned school when she was 15 and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. In 2005, she made some of her recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay on BBC Radio 1 and a contract with Regal Recordings.
Her first mainstream single, "Smile", reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006. Her debut record, Alright, Still, was well received, selling over 2.6 million copies worldwide and brought Allen a nomination at the Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. She began hosting her own talk-show, Lily Allen and Friends, on BBC Three.
Her second studio album, It's Not Me, It's You, saw a genre shift, having more of an electropop feel, rather than the ska and reggae influences of the first one. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and the Australian ARIA Charts and was well received by critics, noting the singer's musical evolution and maturity. It spawned the hit singles "The Fear" and "F*ck You", popular mostly in Europe. Allen and Amy Winehouse have been credited with starting a process that led to the media-proclaimed "year of the women" in 2009 that has seen five female artists making music of "experimentalism and fearlessness" nominated for the Mercury Prize.
We need you!
Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web!
- Born
- May 2, 1985
Hammersmith - Also known as
- Lilly Allen
- Lily Rose Beatrice Allen
- Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper
- Lily Rose Cooper
- Lily Cooper
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Sam Cooper
(2011/06/11 - )
- Sam Cooper
- Children
- Ethnicity
- British people
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Bedales School
- Employment
- Recording Artists, Regal Recordings
- Lived in
- Hammersmith
- London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
Citation
Use the citation below to add to a bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Lily Allen." Biographies.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 26 Apr. 2024. <https://www.biographies.net/people/en/lily_allen>.
Discuss this Lily Allen biography with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In