Lee, with Rough Trade, would eventually manage Duffy. Lee moved Duffy to Crouch End in London, orchestrating a meeting between Duffy and Suede's ex-guitar player Bernard Butler. Duffy was introduced to Jeanette Lee of Rough Trade Records in August 2004, after singing Richard Parfitt's "Oh Boy". Duffy, now in high demand, appeared on Mint Royale's See You in the Morning as a back-up singer. It later achieved Welsh chart success in 2008, charting at number one on the "Siart C2" music chart. In 2004, following success on Wawffactor, Duffy recorded a three-song Welsh extended play, titled Aimée Duffy, while working part-time in two jobs as waitress and in a fishmongers. She was expected to win but came second to winner Lisa Pedrick. Duffy returned to Wales in 2003 and was invited to appear on Wawffactor, a Welsh television talent show. She also built up a following at Alexander's, a local jazz and blues club in Chester, where she performed with guitarist David Burton from the band The Invisible Wires, and met songwriter Lucia Cordaro, going on to perform and record one of her songs (I Melt). She was advised by a lecturer at Chester University to "Go on the dole, love, and become a singer". Duffy then spent six weeks in Switzerland (before she started college), collaborating with the writer-producer Soren Mounir, under the name Soulego. CareerĪfter finishing her GCSEs in Pembrokeshire, Duffy returned to Nefyn, to live with her father, when she was fifteen, and started singing in various local bands. In reaction to her parents' break-up, her next three years were a rebellious period that included binge drinking and stealing a rowing boat. Duffy said in retrospect, "It was a horrendous thing to do." Her mother and her sisters did not speak to her for about a year afterwards. Aged 15, she ran away back to her father's home in Nefyn. Duffy describes living in the safe house as a dog-eat-dog, claustrophobic and isolating experience. I felt so ill", Duffy recounted in 2008, as reported by the NME. Smith's ex-wife, Dawn Watson, was sentenced to a 3½-year jail term for soliciting to murder. In September 1998, at the age of 14, Duffy was briefly put in a police safe house when authorities uncovered a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay a hitman £3,000 to kill her stepfather, Philip Smith. From 2004, she studied Performing Arts at the Parkgate campus. She subsequently went to the University of Chester and studied Commercial Music Production on the Warrington campus. At the age of 17, she attended the Pwllheli campus of Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor to study for A-levels. She attended Ysgol Nefyn (Nefyn School), Gwynedd on the Ll?n Peninsula and Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire as a child. Duffy's parents divorced when she was 10 and she moved to Letterston, near the Pembrokeshire town of Fishguard, with her mother and sisters. She has a twin sister, Kate, and an older sister, Kelly Ann, who was born in 1980. Early lifeĭuffy was born on 23 June 1984 in Bangor, Gwynedd, and was brought up by her parents John Duffy and Joyce Smith (née Williams) in Nefyn, near Pwllheli. Her music style has been described as a mixture of soul, blue-eyed soul, pop rock, neo soul and pop music. Aimee Anne Duffy is a Welsh singer, songwriter and actress.
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