Florence Welch - the 23-year-old native of southern London, the main character of command Florence + The Machine.
Though still more recently the singer did the first steps under patronage of independent label Moshi Moshi, it have already announced the winner in nomination Critics’ Choice (a choice of critics) prestigious British award Brit Awards 2009 (last year this award has received Adele). To a certain extent Florence continues business of the well-known bad girls of the world of music Lille Allen and Emi Vajnhaus (magazine Q-magazine even Nash has christened it anti-Kejt), in its texts it is possible to find much hot topics , irony and even bloody dismantlings (as, for example, in song Girl With One Eye), but it not all.
That distinguishes Florens - so it is its raised virtuosity (from a word «art» - art). Her mother, the American by origin, and its uncle were habitues of studio 54 (Studio 54) - an incubator of pop culture 70.
In the childhood the singer repeatedly went in travel across Europe from which, as she said, has remembered, basically, «uncountable quantity of Gothic churches». At school age of Florens was fan Green Day and Nirvana and on 13th birthday visited Reading Festival, and then, in study in art college, has addressed to music White Stripes, Billie Holiday and Mexican Day Of The Dead. Hide review