On 17 July 2007 ' was announced as one of the 12 albums nominated for the annual 2007 Mercury Music Prize. Later signing to the record label and releasing debut album ' on 11 September 2006. The debut single, 'The Wizard', was released digitally through label Drowned In Sound and on 7-inch through Khan's own imprint, She Bear Records. She went on to work as a nursery school teacher, and it was during this period that she began writing the material for her first album.īat For Lashes' music has been likened to the work of, and especially. Khan graduated in film and music, whilst at university her experimental work was influenced by artists such as and, and she produced multi-media work centred on sound installations, animations and performance. She had a strict religious upbringing until her parents separated when she was 11 years old. Born to a Pakistani father, part of the eminent family of squash-playing Khans, and an English mother, her early childhood was spent travelling the world following her father who trained the Pakistani squash team, summers in Pakistan, and the rest of the time in Hertfordshire. Bat For Lashes is a solo project of, born 25 October 1979, a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, based in Brighton (UK).
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