Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), 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 ''Two Suns'' is the second studio album by English singer Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes. It was released on 3 April 2009 by The Echo Label and Parlophone. The album was produced by Khan herself and David Kosten (who a ...

'' (2009), '' The Haunted Man'' (2012), '' The Bride'' (2016), '' Lost Girls'' (2019), and ''The Dream of Delphi'' (2024). She has received three

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nominations. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band

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and producer Dan Carey.

Early life

Khan was born to an English mother and a Pakistani father, squash player Rehmat Khan. A member of the Khan family, she is the granddaughter of squash player Nasrullah Khan, the niece of squash players Jahangir Khan and Torsam Khan, and the stepdaughter of singer and actress

Salma Agha Salma Agha (born 29 October 1954) is a British singer and actress who worked in Pakistani and Indian films in the 1980s and the early 1990s. She is best known for her acting and singing the song "Dil ke Armaan" in the film ''Nikaah'' (1982). ...

. The family moved to

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, Hertfordshire, when Khan was five years old. She attended many of her family's squash matches, which she felt inspired her creativity: "The roar of the crowd is intense; it is ceremonial, ritualistic, I feel like the banner got passed to me but I carried it on in a creative way. It is a similar thing, the need to thrive on heightened communal experience." After her father left the family when Khan was eleven, she taught herself to play the piano, which became "a channel to express things, to get them out". Khan was subject to racial abuse during secondary school due to her Pakistani heritage. She played

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and was suspended after swearing and throwing a chair at a teacher. She told ''

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'': "I was an outsider at school. When I came back from being suspended they had told the small group of friends that I did have there that they weren't allowed to talk to me because I was a really bad influence. Then it got quite lonely." After completing her

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s and

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, Khan took a job in a card-packing factory where she would work while listening to songs she had made. She said: "My internal imaginary life was really fruitful at that time...All day long just listening and dreaming, while counting the cards to be packed." With money saved from the job, she embarked on a three-month road trip through the United States and Mexico. After returning to the UK, Khan settled in

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in 2000 to study music and visual arts at the

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, where she produced sound installations, animations, and performances influenced by artists including

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and Susan Hiller. After finishing her degree, Khan completed an

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in play work and childcare, and worked as a nursery school teacher, dedicating her spare time to developing songs, recording demos, and gigging in Brighton. She has said the name Bat for Lashes "doesn't really mean anything ..It conjured up Halloween-y images, and it sounded metal and feminine.”

Music career

2006–2008: ''Fur and Gold''

Khan's debut single, "The Wizard", was released digitally through Drowned in Sound records and on 7" vinyl through Khan's own imprint, She Bear Records. In 2006, she signed to

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, a record label owned by independent publisher Chrysalis Music that acted as an incubator for artists before "upstreaming" them to major labels. Echo released her debut album, '' Fur and Gold'', in September 2006. In 2007, Bat for Lashes and Echo signed an international licensing deal with

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, which re-released ''Fur and Gold'' the same year. A limited vinyl version was released by Los Angeles indie label Manimal Vinyl in May 2007. ''Fur and Gold'' reached number forty-eight on the

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and has since been certified gold by the BPI for sales exceeding 100,000 copies. In 2007, Khan appeared at the

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and toured the United States. ''Fur and Gold'' received critical acclaim, including a five-star review from ''

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''. It was shortlisted for the 2007

, losing out to

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' '' Myths of the Near Future'', despite being a favourite of British media to win the award. Also in 2007, the

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(ASCAP) bestowed their Vanguard Award on her and chose her to perform at their "ASCAP Presents..." showcase at

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in Austin, Texas. In 2008, Khan was nominated for British Breakthrough Act and British Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards.

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's 2008 tour featured several shows with Bat for Lashes as their opening act. Her version of

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's " A Forest" appeared on a charity album called '' Perfect as Cats'' on Manimal Vinyl in late 2008.

2009–2011: ''Two Suns''

Khan's second album, ''

'', was released in April 2009 and produced by Khan and David Kosten. In preparation for the album, Khan journeyed to Joshua Tree Desert in California to gain inspiration, before returning to New York and London to write and record the finished material for release. A concept album, ''Two Suns'' focuses on Khan's desert-born

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Pearl, whose personality she adopted while staying in New York to gain a better understanding of the character. She revealed to the

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's ''Newsbeat'', "I really just did it as an experiment of dressing up myself with quite garish extreme feminine make-up. I wanted to photograph myself in that situation and just see what it made me feel." Khan believed that living in

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when bands such as

TV on the Radio TV on the Radio (TVOTR) is an American rock music, rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2001. The band consists of Tunde Adebimpe (vocals, loops), Dave Sitek (guitars, keyboards, loops), Kyp Malone (vocals, guitars, bass, loops), and ...

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, and

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were emerging on the music scene had an influence on the album's musical style. In an interview with

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, she said, "I experienced that whole thing coming out, in terms of beats and like going out dancing and checking out all this new music, it was really inspiring." During the album's production, she also collaborated with Brooklyn band Yeasayer for the bass and beat programming. In June 2009, Bat for Lashes first appeared on the cover of ''

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'', in its 60th issue. ''Two Suns'' debuted at number five on the

, and has been certified gold by the BPI for sales of 100,000 copies. The first single from the album, " Daniel", became Khan's first hit, peaking at number thirty-six on the UK Singles Chart; it later won the

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for Best Contemporary Song and was nominated for the

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for Breakthrough Video of the Year. The following singles were " Pearl's Dream" and a double A-side of " Sleep Alone" and "Moon and Moon", the latter of which was featured in a high-profile advertising campaign for children's charity Barnardo's in late 2009. Bat For Lashes en el Primavera Sound 2009

Bat For Lashes en el Primavera Sound 2009

Critical response to the album was mostly favourable, generating a score of 77 on the review aggregator

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. In their review for ''Two Suns'', ''

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'' awarded it 8 out of 10, describing the album as "epic in scope and ambition and requires a similarly epic patience to unravel its charms." ''

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'' also rated it favourably, stating "Khan proves she's a powerhouse under her billowy sleeves. She could be the next

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." However, some critics such as ''

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'' found problems: reviewing the album, they wrote, "While the weaker songs are definitely not throwaways, they miss the mark in more than one way." ''

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'' magazine also felt the album was average, awarding it 3 out 5 stars, saying, "The contrast between Pearl and Natasha isn't always crisply drawn". As with ''Fur and Gold'', Khan was nominated for the Mercury Prize for ''Two Suns''. In 2010, she won Best Alternative Act at the UK Asian Music Awards and received a second BRIT Award nomination for British Female Solo Artist. As part of the 2009 summer festival season, Khan played at

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, and the

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. In September 2009, a special edition of ''Two Suns'' was released in the United Kingdom ahead of Khan's October tour. The special edition, which included a cover version of the

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single " Use Somebody", was released simultaneously in the United States. Later in 2009, the cover artwork for ''Two Suns'' was nominated for Best Art Vinyl. In early 2010, Khan toured South America supporting

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after a gig at The De La Warr Pavilion, including playing covers of Radiohead's "All I Need" and

's "Lullaby". In 2010, she collaborated with

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on the track "Let's Get Lost" for the ''Twilight Saga: Eclipse'' soundtrack, and contributed the song "Sleep Alone" from ''Two Suns'' to the Enough Project and Downtown Records' ''Raise Hope for Congo'' compilation. Proceeds from the compilation funded efforts to make the protection and empowerment of Congo's women a priority, as well as to inspire individuals around the world to raise their voice for peace in Congo. For Record Store Day 2010, Bat for Lashes released an exclusive double A-side 7" single comprising a live performance of the "Trophy" single B-side "Howl", recorded at De La Warr Pavilion, and a cover of " Wild Is the Wind", originally written by Dimitri Tiomkin and

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. In 2011, Khan recorded a cover version of

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's " Strangelove" for a

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advertising campaign. The song was released as a free download from Gucci's YouTube channel and various blogs. In June 2011, Khan performed two shows at the

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as part of the Vivid LIVE Arts Festival, her only performances of the year.

2012–2014: ''The Haunted Man''

The third Bat for Lashes album, '' The Haunted Man'', was released in October 2012 in the UK. The lead single, " Laura", was released in July; the second single, "All Your Gold", came out in September. ''The Haunted Man'' debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart, Khan's second consecutive top-ten album, and has since been certified Silver by the BPI for selling 60,000 copies. Subsequent singles were "A Wall" and "Lilies". Khan attended the 2013 Brit Awards, having been nominated in the Best British Female category, and was also nominated at the Ivor Novello Awards in the category of Best Song Musically and Lyrically (for "Laura"). In 2013, Khan performed at the

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, supported Blur at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland, and opened for

on the first half of their North American tour. In June, she released a cover of "The Bride", a pre-revolution Iranian song, with the rock band

. On 2 September 2013, Khan premiered the track "Garden's Heart", a collaboration with

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for the soundtrack to the film '' How I Live Now''. In 2014, Khan collaborated with

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on a track for his 2014 solo album ''

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,'' premiered "Skin Song" from ''Body of Songs''—a compilation album featuring songs inspired by anatomy and medical science—and contributed a cover of "Plan the Escape" by

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to the soundtrack album of the film '' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1''.

2015: Sexwitch

On 15 August 2015, Khan began previewing new music on her

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and

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pages via a game of Hangman. During a surprise

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set in Wales on 22 August, she debuted a music project with producer Dan Carey and the band Toy, called Sexwitch. Two days later, it was announced that Sexwitch's eponymous debut album would be released on 25 September 2015 by Echo and BMG, consisting of six covers of 1970s psychedelic and

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songs from different parts of the world.

2016: ''The Bride''

On 19 February 2016, a new song, "I Do", was released on YouTube with a picture of a

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reading "Save The Date 1st July 2016". The track was made available for purchase the same day. On 11 March, Khan released "In God's House", the lead single from her fourth studio album, '' The Bride'', which was released on 1 July and later nominated for the 2016

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2019: ''Lost Girls''

On 10 June 2019, the album '' Lost Girls'' was announced and the song "Kids in the Dark" was released on YouTube. ''Lost Girls'' was released on 6 September 2019.

2024: ''The Dream of Delphi''

Khan released the title track from her upcoming sixth album, ''The Dream of Delphi'', on 22 February 2024. The album was released on 31 May 2024, and an English tour followed in June. The album reflects on the conception and birth of Khan's daughter Delphi during the

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Artistry

Khan is a

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with an expansive range. Critics have likened her music to the work of

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Nico Christa Päffgen (; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Nico had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini's '' La Dolce Vita'' (1960) and Andy Warhol's ...

, Siouxsie Sioux,

Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public per ...

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Annie Lennox Ann Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart w ...

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, and

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. Her music has been described by MTV Iggy as "at once haunting and way danceable".

Other projects

Khan and fashion house YMC designed a limited edition capsule collection of sportswear and accessories for the spring/summer 2014 season. The release of the collection was accompanied by a fashion film, ''Under the Indigo Moon'', directed by and starring Khan, with a soundtrack she composed with Beck. In 2014, Film4 commissioned Cowboy Films to produce the short film ''Gotcha'', with Khan as writer and director. She said she intended to develop the project into a feature-length film. In 2016, she wrote and directed the short film '' Madly''. Khan has written feature-length film scripts for both '' The Bride'' (2016) and '' Lost Girls'' (2019).

Personal life

Khan moved from London to Los Angeles in 2017. She and her partner, Australian actor and model Samuel Watkins, live in Highland Park. Khan gave birth to their first child, a daughter, in July 2020.

Discography

* '' Fur and Gold'' (2006) * ''

'' (2009) * '' The Haunted Man'' (2012) * '' The Bride'' (2016) * '' Lost Girls'' (2019) * ''The Dream of Delphi'' (2024)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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