Imogen Heap

LOS ANGELES - JAN 31: Imogen Heap arrives at the 52nd Annual GR

Heap in 2010, photo by Joe Seer/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap

Place of Birth: Havering, Essex, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 9 December, 1977

Ethnicity: English, Scottish

Imogen Heap is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and audio engineer. She is known for her pioneering work in pop and electropop music. She is also known as Imogen Jennifer Heap.

Her name was inspired by composer Imogen Holst. She performed music from an early age, and became classically trained in several instruments, including piano, cello, and clarinet. Her father, a construction rock retailer, and her mother, an art therapist, separated when she was twelve. By thirteen, she had begun writing songs. Imogen principally taught herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production, on Atari computers. She also taught herself to play the guitar and drums, and the percussion/idiophone instruments, the array mbira and the Hang. After school, Imogen went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London.

Imogen has a daughter with her former partner, director Michael Lebor.

Imogen’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Paterson.

3 Responses

  1. Americanus guess my race says:

    Always thought is a Brazilian —–.

  2. Jason 7 says:

    Imogen Holst was the daughter of Gustav Holst.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_Holst

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst

    “(Gustav) Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent,[n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor;[2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the previous three generations.[3]

    One of Holst’s great-grandfathers, Matthias Holst, born in Riga, Latvia, was of German origin; he served as composer and harp-teacher to the Imperial Russian Court in St Petersburg.[4] Matthias’s son Gustavus, who moved to England with his parents as a child in 1802,[5] was a composer of salon-style music and a well-known harp teacher. He appropriated the aristocratic prefix “von” and added it to the family name in the hope of gaining enhanced prestige and attracting pupils.[n 2]”

    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holst-424

  3. Mixed Kidd says:

    Her ethnicity should be bolded.

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