Ladyhawke (musician)

Phillipa Margaret Pip Brown , better known by her stage name Ladyhawke, is a New Zealand singersongwriter and multiinstrumentalist. She took her stage name from Richard Donners 1985 film Ladyhawke.

Phillipa Margaret Brown was born onJuly 1979 in Masterton, a town in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. She came from a musical family, with her mother being a singerguitarist and her stepfather, a jazz drummer. During her childhood, various illnesses and allergies kept her in and out of the hospital. At age ten she contracted erysipeloid, a disease that is common in seagulls but had not been seen in humans in New Zealand for twenty years. Her allergies to antibiotics and antihistamines greatly complicated treatment efforts and almost put her into a coma, and she came close to dying.

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