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Birdy (musician)

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Birdy in 2013.

Jasmine van den Bogaerde (born 15 May 1996), also known by her stage name Birdy, is an English musician.[1][2] She was born in Lymington, Hampshire. She won the music competition Open Mic UK in 2008, at the age of 12. Her version of Bon Iver's "Skinny Love" was successful, peaking inside the top twenty of the charts in her native United Kingdom and in some other European countries. Her eponymous first album Birdy was released on 7 November 2011. the album peaked at No. 13 in the UK[3] and in the top 5 in France,[4] Belgium[5] and the Netherlands[6] and number 1 in Australia.[7] Her second album Fire Within was released 23 September 2013 in the UK. She is the great-niece of Dirk Bogarde.

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  1. McLean, Craig (9 September 2012). "Watch the Birdy: pop's new teenage wunderkind". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  2. "Birdy". Archived from the original on 2018-12-07. Retrieved 2019-02-15. {{cite web}}: More than one of |archivedate= and |archive-date= specified (help); More than one of |archiveurl= and |archive-url= specified (help)
  3. "ChartArchive - Birdy". archive.is. 9 December 2012. Archived from the original on 9 December 2012.
  4. "lescharts.com - Discographie Birdy". lescharts.com.
  5. "Discografie Birdy". ultratop.be.
  6. "Discografie Birdy - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl.
  7. http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Birdy

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