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In 2007, Bat for Lashes appeared at Glastonbury and toured the USA.<ref>http://www.batforlashes.co.uk/live/</ref> On [[17 July]] the album ''Fur and Gold'' was announced as one of the albums nominated for the 2007 [[Mercury Prize]]. Despite being the favourite to win, by both the [[bookies]] and the [[Pundit_%28expert%29|pundits]] —and after performing the song "Horse and I" at the ceremony held at London's [[Grosvenor House]] and presented by [[Jools Holland]] on Tuesday [[4 September]] 2007—Bat for Lashes lost out to rank outsiders, the [[Klaxons]].
In 2007, Bat for Lashes appeared at Glastonbury and toured the USA.<ref>http://www.batforlashes.co.uk/live/</ref> On [[17 July]] the album ''Fur and Gold'' was announced as one of the albums nominated for the 2007 [[Mercury Prize]]. Despite being the favourite to win, by both the [[bookies]] and the [[Pundit_%28expert%29|pundits]] —and after performing the song "Horse and I" at the ceremony held at London's [[Grosvenor House]] and presented by [[Jools Holland]] on Tuesday [[4 September]] 2007—Bat for Lashes lost out to rank outsiders, the [[Klaxons]].


She is currently writing her second album and will begin recording it in mid-2008.{{Fact|date=February 2008}}
She is currently her second album .


She was one of the nominees for 'best British breakthrough act' at the [[Brit Awards]] 2008, despite never actually having 'broken through', but she lost out to [[Mika_(singer)|Mika]] and [[Kate Nash]] in the end. She was also nominated for Best British Female.
She was one of the nominees for 'best British breakthrough act' at the [[Brit Awards]] 2008, despite never actually having 'broken through', but she lost out to [[Mika_(singer)|Mika]] and [[Kate Nash]] in the end. She was also nominated for Best British Female.

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For the Pakistani singer, see Natasha Khan (Pakistan).
Bat for Lashes

Bat for Lashes is the moniker of English musician Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), a Brighton-based songwriter.

Background

Natasha Khan was born to an English mother, and a Pakistani father. Part of the eminent family of squash-playing Khans, 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.[1][2] She had a strict religious upbringing until her parents separated, when she was eleven years old. In an interview with Wikinews, Khan said she no longer speaks to the Pakistani side of her family.[3]

Khan graduated in music and visual arts;[4] while at university her experimental work was influenced by artists such as Steve Reich and Susan Hiller, and she produced multi-media work centred on sound installations, animations and performance. 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. "Whenever I'm writing music it's a very visual place in my mind," said Khan. "It has a location full of characters and colors and landscapes, so those two things really compliment each other, and they help the other one to blossom and support the other. They are like brother and sister."[3]

Natasha Khan

Her debut single, "The Wizard", was released digitally through DiS records and on seven inch through Khan's own imprint, She Bear Records. She then signed to the record label Echo, alongside Feeder and former Moloko singer Róisín Murphy, and released her debut album, Fur and Gold, on 11 September 2006.

Bat for Lashes' music has been likened to the work of Björk, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, and Fiona Apple.

In 2007, Bat for Lashes appeared at Glastonbury and toured the USA.[5] On 17 July the album Fur and Gold was announced as one of the albums nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize. Despite being the favourite to win, by both the bookies and the pundits —and after performing the song "Horse and I" at the ceremony held at London's Grosvenor House and presented by Jools Holland on Tuesday 4 September 2007—Bat for Lashes lost out to rank outsiders, the Klaxons.

She is currently recording her second album in New York, collaborating with the band Gang Gang Dance.[6]

She was one of the nominees for 'best British breakthrough act' at the Brit Awards 2008, despite never actually having 'broken through', but she lost out to Mika and Kate Nash in the end. She was also nominated for Best British Female.

Thom Yorke has also previously complimented her work.[3] Radiohead's 2008 tour will feature several shows with Bat for Lashes as their opening act.[3]

Additional live performers

Discography

Albums

Singles

  • 2006
    • "Trophy"
    • "The Wizard"
  • 2007
    • "Prescilla"
    • "What's a Girl to Do?"
  • 2008

Notes

  1. ^ 'Bat for Lashes are beyond a trend ... she has an ancient power; like Bjork or Patti Smith, she is in part shamanic ...' | Pop | Guardian Unlimited Music
  2. ^ BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Mercury Prize: The nominees
  3. ^ a b c d Interview with Natasha Khan, David Shankbone, Wikinews, September 28, 2007.
  4. ^ interview for arbobo.fr
  5. ^ http://www.batforlashes.co.uk/live/
  6. ^ Bat For Lashes begins 'darker' second album NME
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