Imogen Heap

About Speaker Imogen Heap…

A four-time Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist who began writing music by her 13th birthday (and broke America by her 28th), Imogen Heap has been described as an innovative singer-songwriter with a quirky and inspirational character a tech savvy musician with an eccentric sense of style and uniquely graceful music.

Heap is a profoundly English artist whose songs transcend time and place to conjure captivating digital dreamscapes of love, loss and hopefulness. Her distinct, eclectronic-style – a brilliant kaleidoscopic symphony of voices, beats, sounds and emotions – mixing beautiful lyrics with breathtaking melodies, traditional instrumentation with computers, to create a sound that’s folk-hued and digital and sparks the imagination.

Most recently, Imogen hit the billboard top ten with her latest chart-topping electronic album, Ellipse. She is always at the forefront of the music industry and has developed a fiercely loyal fan base of over 1.4 million followers on Twitter, as well as 350,000 friends on MySpace and more than 250,000 fans on Facebook. The Times called her “the first download Diva”. She has collaborated with artists such as Nik Kershaw, Jeff Beck, Jon Bon Jovi, Sean Lennon Britney Spears, and Guy Sigsworth, with whom she formed the popular electronica duo Frou Frou. Heap’s songs have also appeared in numerous films and television shows including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Garden State, Shrek 2, Six Feet Under, and The O.C.