Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith , actually Paloma Faith Blomfield (born July 21, 1981 in Hackney , London ) is an English actress and singer .
biography
Paloma Faith is trained as a jazz singer and dancer and holds a Masters degree in theater directing from St. Martins College . At 18, she appeared in cabarets as a singer in a cover band called Paloma and the Penetrators and as an assistant to a magician, and later she took part in a burlesque theater.
She got into the music business through a casual job in a lingerie shop. A customer there was able to provide her with appropriate contacts. She was also offered to work as a backing singer for Amy Winehouse ; However, she preferred an independent career. Musically, they range from jazz pop of the 1950s to Motown soul and funk soul of the 1970s. The half-Spaniard also became known for her extravagant stage shows, in which she places particular emphasis on costumes and stage decorations. Die Zeit judged their singing to be a mixture of jazz, soul, chanson and glamor pop.
From 2006 she also played smaller roles in television series, and then gained greater fame through her participation in The Girls of St. Trinian (2007). Since 2019 she can be seen as a bleached contract killer in the Epix series Pennyworth about the early years of Alfred Pennyworth, a character from the DC Comics universe who will later become the butler of Batman .
With the song Stone Cold Sober , Paloma Faith had a first hit in her home country in the summer of 2009, which was extremely successful on the radio and also attracted interest abroad. In August and September 2009 it was released in Australia and various European countries. She gained greater fame with the song New York . After three previous Brit Awards nominations , Faith was named "Best British Female Solo Artist" in 2015.
Awards
- 2015: British Female Solo Artist
reception
“Because it is so beautiful, first the name: Paloma Faith. A loyal pigeon with a fickle biography. Lingerie seller, stage assistant to a magician, burlesque performances, singer by chance. 24 years old, from London. Does that already explain their wicked magic? It smells of variety, of a life for the show in front of velvet red curtains. There's no longer anything like that on the Reeperbahn , only in the cinema when Baz Luhrman lets the corsetted Nicole Kidman sing at the Moulin Rouge . Or when Dita von Teese is kicking her champagne glass, ”wrote Rabea Weihser in 2009 as a prelude to her interview with Paloma Faith in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . And she concludes with the observation that Faith knows that she is just a product that a major label needs year after year: “She knows that Amy Winehouse and Duffy resonate in her voice . That Lady Gaga's eccentricity made her way into the charts. "
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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 UK
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 US
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| 2009 | Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? | - | - |
CH37 (3 weeks) CH |
UK9  × 2
(122 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: September 28, 2009
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| 2012 | Fall to Grace | - | - |
CH36 (2 weeks) CH |
UK2 × 2
(70 weeks)UK |
US170 (1 week) US |
First published: May 28, 2012
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| 2014 | A perfect contradiction | - | - |
CH91 (1 week) CH |
UK2 × 2
(85 weeks)UK |
US176 (1 week) US |
First published: March 10, 2014
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| 2017 | The Architect | - | - | - |
UK1 (53 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: November 17, 2017
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EPs
| year | title | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | iTunes Festival: London 2010 | First published: July 7, 2010 |
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE
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AT
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CH
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UK
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US
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| 2009 | Stone Cold Sober Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? |
DE70 (3 weeks) DE |
- |
CH36 (7 weeks) CH |
UK17 (6 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: June 15, 2009
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| New York Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? |
DE54 (5 weeks) DE |
- |
CH15 (20 weeks) CH |
UK15th  (22 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: September 13, 2009
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| Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? |
- | - | - |
UK64 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: December 21, 2009
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| 2010 | Upside Down Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? |
- | - | - |
UK55 (8 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: March 15, 2010
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| 2012 | Picking Up the Pieces Fall to Grace |
- | - | - |
UK7th  (25 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: May 18, 2012
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| 30 minute Love Affair Fall to Grace |
- | - | - |
UK50 (6 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: August 10, 2012
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| Just Be Fall to Grace |
- | - | - |
UK66 (4 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: August 2012
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| Never Tear Us Apart Fall to Grace |
- | - | - |
UK16 (11 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: September 23, 2012
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| 2014 | Can't Rely on You A Perfect Contradiction |
- | - | - |
UK10 (16 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: February 23, 2014
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| Only Love Can Hurt Like This A Perfect Contradiction |
- | - | - |
UK6th (48 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: May 11, 2014
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| Ready for the Good Life A Perfect Contradiction |
- | - | - |
UK68 (1 week) UK |
- |
First published: November 9, 2014
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| 2017 | Crybaby The Architect |
- | - | - |
UK36 (13 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: September 1, 2017
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| 2018 | 'Til I'm Done The Architect |
- | - | - |
UK95 (1 week) UK |
- |
First published: February 2, 2018
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| Make Your Own Kind of Music | - | - | - |
UK28 (10 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: February 22, 2018
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| Lullaby Brighter Days |
DE90 (1 week) DE |
- |
CH52 (2 weeks) CH |
UK6th (27 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: February 23, 2018
with Sigala |
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| 2020 | Mistakes | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: February 28, 2020
with Jonas Blue |
more publishments
- 2010: Smoke & Mirrors
- 2013: Black & Blue
- 2014: Trouble with My Baby
- 2015: Beauty Remains
- 2017: Guilty
- 2018: Warrior
As a guest musician
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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DE
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AT
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CH
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UK
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US
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| 2014 |
Changing Life |
DE87 (5 weeks) DE |
AT32 (8 weeks) AT |
- |
UK1 (34 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: September 14, 2014
Sigma feat. Paloma Faith |
more publishments
- 2014: Keep Moving (Adam Deacon & Bashy feat. Paloma Faith)
- 2017: Bridge over Troubled Water (with Artists for Grenfell)
- 2017: Roots (Grace Davies feat. Paloma Faith)
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
silver |
gold |
platinum
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Sales | swell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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 Australia (ARIA)
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- |
2 × gold2
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4 × platinum4th
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350,000 | aria.com.au |
 Italy (FIMI)
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- |
gold1
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- | 25,000 | fimi.it |
 Poland (ZPAV)
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- | - |
platinum1
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20,000 | bestsellery.zpav.pl |
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United Kingdom (BPI)
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6 × silver6th
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gold1
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10 × platinum10
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5,500,000 | bpi.co.uk |
| All in all |
6 × silver6th
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4 × gold4th
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15 × platinum15th
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Filmography
- 2006: Mayo (TV series, episode 1x06)
- 2007: Holby Blue (TV series, episode 1x07)
- 2007: Dogface (TV series, episode 1x04)
- 2007: The Girls of St. Trinian (St. Trinian's)
- 2009: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
- 2009: Dread
- 2009, 2011: Never Mind the Buzzcocks (TV show, two episodes)
- 2010: Coming Up (TV series, episode "I Don't Care")
- 2010: Discovering Lennon (TV documentary series)
- 2012: A Nice Touch (short film)
- 2013: Blandings (TV series, episode 1x04)
- 2015: Eternal Youth (Youth)
- 2015: Peter & Wendy (TV movie)
- since 2019: Pennyworth (TV series)
Web links
- Official Homepage (German)
- Works by and about Paloma Faith in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paloma Faith at Allmusic (English)
- Paloma Faith in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paloma Faith in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paloma Faith: Stone Cold Sober ( Memento from September 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: gay.ch from September 2, 2009. Accessed on October 28, 2019.
- ↑ Silvan Gertsch: Interview with Paloma Faith In: students.ch from September 13, 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
- ↑ With a frilly dress and quiff , ddp / Ad Hoc News, August 21, 2009.
- ↑ a b Rabea Weihser: Paloma Faith: "I like to deceive". Die Zeit, September 25, 2009, accessed on January 12, 2016 .
- ^ Matthew Stadlen: Paloma Faith: 'Success is the best revenge'. The Telegraph, March 9, 2015, accessed January 12, 2016 .
- ↑ tz.de : Brit Awards: Madonna falls on stage , accessed on February 26, 2015
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE CH UK US
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faith, Paloma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blomfield, Paloma Faith (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British singer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hackney , London , England , United Kingdom |