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Bat for Lashes

(1979) Singer United Kingdom

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Bat for Lashes is a singer from the United Kingdom.

Quick Facts About Bat for Lashes

Born: October 25, 1979
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Singer

About Bat for Lashes

Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released six studio albums: Fur and Gold (2006), Two Suns (2009), The Haunted Man (2012), The Bride (2016), Lost Girls (2019), and The Dream of Delphi (2024). She has received three Mercury Prize nominations. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was…

Being

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I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the…

Accepted

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I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and…

Cooking

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Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your…

Albums

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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot…

Accept

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I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn,…

Bad

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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream…

About

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I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from…

Beautiful

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I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

Dark

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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

Dad

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I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have…

Adolescence

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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our…

About

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I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have…

Bits

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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie…

Allen

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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function…

Accepted

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My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could,…

About

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I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.

Body

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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but…

Back

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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

Around

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