Laura Marling

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Laura Marling at the Sydney Opera House (2012)

Laura Beatrice Marling (* 1. February 1990 in Eversley , Hampshire , England ) is a British folk - pop - singer .

Career

Marling went on tour with Adam Green and Jamie T , among others , who personally invited them to join him on his 2007 tour after seeing their second gig ever. In February 2008 she released her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim , which made it into the UK album charts.

Before her solo career, Marling was a member of the folk rock band Noah and the Whale , which she co-founded in 2006. She was in a relationship with Marcus Mumford , the singer of Mumford & Sons , until winter 2010 .

In 2011 Laura Marling received a BRIT Award for “Best British Solo Artist”. In February of the same year she received an NME Award for Best Solo Artist from the New Musical Express .

Marling's song What He Wrote from her 2010 album I Speak Because I Can plays a central role in the award-winning Hungarian film Body and Soul (2017) .

Laura Marling is featured with two songs on the soundtrack for the BBC series Peaky Blinders , released in 2019 ( What He Wrote and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall ).

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2008 Alas, I Cannot Swim - - - UK45
gold
gold

(4 weeks)UK 		-
2010 I speak because I can - - - UK4th
gold
gold

(30 weeks)UK 		-
2011 A Creature I Don't Know - - CH92 (1 week)
CH 		UK4th
gold
gold

(10 weeks)UK 		US99 (1 week)
US
2013 Once I Was an Eagle - - - UK3
silver
silver

(6 weeks)UK 		US49 (2 weeks)
US
2015 Short movie DE78 (1 week)
DE 		- - UK7 (7 weeks)
UK 		US148 (1 week)
US
2017 Semper Femina DE42 (1 week)
DE 		AT53 (1 week)
AT 		CH46 (1 week)
CH 		UK5 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
2020 Song for Our Daughter DE80 (1 week)
DE 		- CH78 (1 week)
CH 		UK6 (2 weeks)
UK 		-

EPs

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US
2010 Mumford & Sons , Laura Marling & Dharohar Project US127 (1 week)
US

More EPs

  • 2007: London Town
  • 2007: My Manic and I
  • 2008: iTunes Live: London Sessions
  • 2008: Cross Your Fingers
  • 2010: iTunes Festival: London 2010

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK
2010 Devil's Spoke
I Speak Because I Can 		UK97 (1 week)
UK

More singles

  • 2007: My Manic and I
  • 2007: New Romantic
  • 2007: Ghosts
  • 2008: Cross Your Fingers / Crawled Out of the Sea
  • 2008: Night Terror
  • 2008: Young Love (with Mystery Jets )
  • 2009: Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)
  • 2010: Rambling Man
  • 2010: Blues Run the Game
  • 2011: Sophia
  • 2013: The Beast
  • 2013: Master Hunter
  • 2015: False Hope

Web links

swell

  1. ^ Intimate // Laura Marling and Adam Green . April 29, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  3. ^ Daily Mail : The Mercury lovers: Folk singer Laura Marling goes up against boyfriend from Mumford & Sons for top music prize on July 21, 2010. Accessed July 27, 2011.
  4. ↑ Shockwaves NME Awards 2011 - all the winners
  5. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
personal data
SURNAME Marling, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marling, Laura Beatrice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British folk pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Eversley , Hampshire , England