Lily Allen was born in London, England, May 2, 1985. The young pop singer is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. His musical career began auspiciously as his godfather is none other than a good friend of his father, Joey Strummer, the legendary leader of the punk rock band The Clash. Tessa Pollitt is her godmother of punk band The Slits. With such "fairy" bending over his cradle, the young Lily shouted punk rock already in kindergarten and put safety pins in his diaper. She is the daughter of actor Welsh Keith Allen and film producer English, Alison Owen. His family then moved to the borough of Islington in north London.Lily Allen lived for a while with comedian Harry Enfield while her mother's companion. She is the goddaughter of singer of American band, Wild Colonials, Angela McCluskey. The former singer and guitarist of The Clash, Joe Strummer, is also considered a sponsor, without being really a true, Strummer was close to Allen. Lily Allen says he has fond memories of the week and a half they spent together during the festival Glastonbury. In 1988, at the age of three years, Lily Allen made an appearance in the television series The Comic Strip Presents, during the episode The Yob that his father co-wrote. When Allen was four years old, his father left the family.
Lily Allen grew up with his mother and lives in a housing project during its infancy. She was educated in some public schools pay the most expensive in the UK. In all, Lily Allen was educated in 13 different schools, including Hill House School, with a living as an intern at Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva, Millfield and Bedales School. She was expelled several times for drinking or smoking. When Lily Allen is 11 years old, a music student of the University of Victoria, Rachel Santesso, hear Lily Allen sing Wonderwall group Oasis in the school yard. Impressed, Santesso, who later became a soprano and award winning songwriter, Lily Allen calls the next day and began to give lessons singing at noon.
This will lead Lily Allen to sing the song Baby Mine Film Disney Dumbo at a school concert. Allen says American radio on Loveline that the public had "tears in his eyes at the sight of a girl with problems doing something right." At this point Lily Allen said she knew that music was something she should do, as a lifelong vocation. Lily Allen plays the piano to grade 5 standard and has reached the eighth grade in the song. She also played the violin, the guitar and trumpet while a member of a chamber choir. His first solo was In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti. According to The Sunday Times, " the only school that seems to have had a positive impact on her was, Cavendish, a Christian school for girls located in Camden Town. " At Cavendish, Allen "played a boy in a production of The Railway Children and sang Baby Be Mine".Finally, Lily Allen made an appearance as a lady of honor in the film Elizabeth in 1998 , which was co-produced by her mother. She left school at age fifteen, saying they did not want to "spend a third of his life to prepare for the next third of her life, to retire with a pension for the third following in her life. "After his family is on vacation in Ibiza , Allen pretext for his mother to be with friends, while it remained in Sant Antoni de Portmany . She made ??money by working at a record store label, Fantastic Plastic, and dealant of ecstasy .Lily Allen was 17 when she signed a contract with Warner Music (thank you Dad!).
But the Englishwoman, who has her own way to stack the clothes, also a good bit of talent, signed in 2005 with Regal Records, a subsidiary of the prestigious record label Parlophone / EMI. Lily Allen is not docile so far: his label wanted to send in a big studio for his songs become calibrated tubes for FM? In November 2005, the small Lily puts all his songs posted on MySpace.com, the site that it is his blog. Toc and. His pieces draw the English music press, which devotes the "best singer in the world of the week". The phenomenon is spreading by seducing youth dancing I-pod connected. This icon generational and sartorial talent mixed with punk, reggae and ska. So British. Her debut single Smile was ranked number one in the UK in July 2006.
In France, Lily Allen appears in stores and on the airwaves in July 2006 with the title Smile. Shortly after its release, the title was used for advertising of Club Internet, which has accelerated the popularity of the singer. Well Joe Strummer's goddaughter, Lily Allen is noted for its positions and its various sensational declarations against, inter alia, other musical artists such as Kylie Minogue (outdated, obviously) or Amy Winehouse (she mocks his addictions to alcohol and drugs). The British tabloids love this spirit of camaraderie. And to believe those tabloids, Miss Allen would appreciate the same medications that Amy Whinehouse. At the point of being banned from U.S. territory, which led her to cancel several concerts.In his private life, Lily Allen has not really had any luck. In December 2007, the singer announced she is pregnant musician Ed Simons, a member of the Chemical Brothers, but miscarried a month later. An event that causes loss of torque. The beautiful brunette then finds solace in the arms of Sam Cooper and becomes pregnant. With septicemia, Lily Allen learns to six months of pregnancy she again lost her baby. The following year the couple married. Lily Allen appears radiant in a white dress that emphasizes a rounded belly: the pretty brunette is pregnant. During pregnancy, expectant parents opt out of the limelight. In November 2011, Lily Allen announced on her Twitter account that she gave birth to a baby girl, named Mary Ethel.