Imogen Heap

Imogen Jennifer Heap is an English singersongwriter and composer. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes. She has produced four solo albums. Her 2009 album, Ellipse, was a North American chart success that earned Heap two Grammy nominations, winning Best Engineered Album, NonClassical in recognition of her technical and engineering work on the record. In 2010 she received the British Academys Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.

Heap was born in the London Borough of Havering. She played music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several instruments including piano, cello and clarinet. She attended Friends School, a private, Quakerrun boarding school in Saffron Walden. Heaps mother and her father separated when she was twelve. By the age of thirteen, she had begun writing songs.

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