Nat Puff (born June 18, 1996),
better known by her stage name Left at London (sometimes stylized as /@/), is an American singer-songwriter, producer,
comedian,
and internet personality
from
Seattle
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,
Washington
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* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
. She originally gained fame by posting short comedy sketches on
Vine
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as well as parodies of musicians
Frank Ocean
Christopher Francis "Frank" Ocean (born Christopher Edwin Breaux; October 28, 1987), is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. His works are noted by music critics for featuring avant-garde styles and introspective, elliptical lyrics. Ocean ...
,
Tyler, the Creator
Tyler Gregory Okonma (born March 6, 1991), known professionally as Tyler, the Creator, is an American rapper and record producer. He is one of the founding members of the music collective Odd Future.
Okonma self-released his debut mixtape ' ...
, and
Mitski
Mitski Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock; September 27, 1990), known professionally by the mononym Mitski, is a Japanese-born American singer-songwriter. Mitski self-released her first two albums, ''Lush'' (2012) and ''Retired from Sad, New Career ...
.
Since then she has garnered fame as an
indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and su ...
musician with several EPs including the ''Transgender Street Legend'' trilogy and the song "Revolution Lover". Her debut studio album, ''
T.I.A.P.F.Y.H.'' was released on June 4, 2021, and her second studio album ''You Are Not Alone Enough'' is expected to be released in the near future.
Music career
2014–2019: Early career, ''The Purple Heart'', and ''Transgender Street Legend Vol. 1''
Puff first began writing songs in fifth grade. The Left at London project originally started as a band, though after the project fell apart Puff kept the previous group's monicker as her stage name, as she was uncomfortable using her legal name. The name Left at London comes from an experience where Puff misread the sign of a local bar called "The Loft at Tandem". In 2014 and 2015 while still in high school, Puff released three demo EPs, ''Youth Group Computer'', ''2 Rowdy 4 Dennys / Give Peace a Break'', and ''Will Write Songs 4 Money'', all receiving very limited releases. The EPs were later re-released on
Bandcamp
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on February 5, 2021.
Puff released her first widely released extended play, ''The Purple Heart'' on June 18, 2018.
On November 10 that same year, she also released ''Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 1''.
The later EP featured her breakout single "Revolution Lover" which went on to receive a music video and be featured in an episode of ''
Welcome to Night Vale
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''. In that year, she started gaining online attention thanks to the success of her viral
Twitter
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video titled "How to Make a
Frank Ocean
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Song". In 2019, additional parodies of
Tyler, the Creator
Tyler Gregory Okonma (born March 6, 1991), known professionally as Tyler, the Creator, is an American rapper and record producer. He is one of the founding members of the music collective Odd Future.
Okonma self-released his debut mixtape ' ...
and
Mitski
Mitski Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock; September 27, 1990), known professionally by the mononym Mitski, is a Japanese-born American singer-songwriter. Mitski self-released her first two albums, ''Lush'' (2012) and ''Retired from Sad, New Career ...
further popularized Left at London, including recognition from both artists.
2019–2022: ''Transgender Street Legend Vol. 2'' and ''T.I.A.P.F.Y.H.''
In December 2019, Puff released the
Dylan Brady
Dylan Marshall Brady (born November 27, 1993) is an American music producer and singer-songwriter best known for being one half of experimental electronic music duo 100 Gecs, alongside Laura Les. He also owns and operates his own record label, ...
-produced "6 Feet", the first single from ''
Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 2
''Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 2'' is the eighth extended play (and fifth wide-release) by American singer-songwriter and producer Left at London, released on September 25, 2020. The EP was promoted by the singles "6 Feet", "Do You See Us?", "Sa ...
''. The same month she released "Santa's Homophobic", a comedic Christmas song featuring
Dominique "SonicFox" McLean and
SungWon Cho
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. "Blacknwhite (Radio Edit)" was released On January 14, 2020, as the lead single to her second studio album (at the time announced as her debut) ''You Are Not Alone Enough'', an album themed around her mental health.
On March 17, 2020, Puff released ''You Wouldn't Download a Car'', a mixtape of her own remixes of various popular songs. On July 20, 2020, she released the two song EP ''Jenny Durkan, Resign in Disgrace''. The EP's title refers to
Jenny Durkan, then
mayor of Seattle
The Mayor of Seattle is the head of the executive branch of the city government of Seattle, Washington. The mayor is authorized by the city charter to enforce laws enacted by the Seattle City Council, as well as direct subordinate officers in ci ...
, who
uffholds responsible for condoning police violence and causing "the citizens of a historically gay neighborhood to be gassed on the first day of Pride Month." The songs on the EP were also inspired by the establishment of the
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
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and the murders of Charleena Lyles and
Summer Taylor.
The first track "Do You See Us?" appears on ''Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 2''. On July 24, she released the four-track covers EP ''This One's For the Milfs'', featuring covers of songs by
Janelle Monae Janelle may refer to:
* Janelle (given names)
* Janelle (surnames)
* 20673 Janelle, asteroid
Fictional characters:
* Janelle, a.k.a. Janae Timmins
* Janelle Duco, in episode " From a Whisper to a Scream" of television series ''Grey's Anatomy''
...
,
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell ( ; born December 18, 2001) is an American singer-songwriter. She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single " Ocean Eyes", written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell, with who ...
,
Ginuwine
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, and
Kanye West
Ye ( ; born Kanye Omari West ; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West gained recognition as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the ea ...
.
A day later ''Tales From Transgender Street'', an album of Left at London covers by other artists, was released and promoted through a virtual concert of the same name. ''Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 2'' was released on September 25, 2020.
On September 29, 2020, Puff announced that she was working on new music part of a new duo called WOW OK. The band released their first track, a remix of "(FOREVER!!!!!!!!!)" by
Glass Beach on March 5, 2021. Their debut single, "Holy Moment", was released on April 16, 2021.
On March 26, 2021, Puff announced that she would spend the next two months working on her debut album, ''
T.I.A.P.F.Y.H.'', as part of an artist residency with the City of Shoreline Public Art Program.
The release of ''You Are Not Alone Enough'', the album previously announced as her debut, was pushed back. ''t.i.a.p.f.y.h.'' was released on June 3, 2021.
2022–present: ''Transgender Street Legend Vol. 3'' and upcoming studio albums
In January 2022 Puff shared on Twitter that she aimed to finish ''You Are Not Alone Enough'' in April 2022 with a "mid-late fall release date", but it is still yet to release.
In March 2022, Puff confirmed that the final volume of the Transgender Street Legend series had been finished and entered the mastering stage. She stated that the EP would be
soul
In many religious and philosophical traditions, there is a belief that a soul is "the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being".
Etymology
The Modern English noun '':wikt:soul, soul'' is derived from Old English ''sāwol, sāwel''. The ea ...
and
Contemporary R&B
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The genre features a distinctive Recor ...
inspired. On her
Patreon
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she shared a song from the EP called "My Old Ways" on February 11, 2022. The lead single "Make You Proud" released on June 17, 2022. ''Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 3'' released on June 24, 2022.
Puff is already working on her third studio album, already having a conceptual tracklist finalized consisting of 15 tracks.
Other ventures
2014–2016: Vine
She began posting short videos on
Vine
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in 2014.
Personal life
Puff is a
lesbian and a
non-binary
Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are not solely male or femaleidentities that are outside the gender binary. Non-binary identities fall under the transgender umbrella, since non-binary people typicall ...
trans woman
A trans woman or a transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity, may experience gender dysphoria, and may Gender transitioning, transition; this process commonly includes Feminizing horm ...
who uses she/her pronouns.
She has
ADHD,
PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a ...
,
borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), is a personality disorder characterized by a long-term pattern of unstable interpersonal relationships, distorted sense of self, and strong ...
and
OSDD-1b, and is also
autistic
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. She has frequently voiced support of
plural
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systems. She says that her autism is what allows her to be so good at impressions, saying "I'm used to mimicking others in order to seem
neurotypical
Neurotypical (NT, an abbreviation of neurologically typical) is a neologism widely used in the neurodiversity movement as a label for non- neurodivergent people. That is, anyone who has a typical neurotype, so excluding autistic people, those w ...
and I've gotten really adept at observing things like speech patterns".
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
Mixtape
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Other appearances
* Vera Much — "Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known" (2020)
* Phixel — "Childish" (2021)
* Knock Monsterr - "In My Walls" (2022)
Songwriting and production credits
* "Dumb Bitch Juice" —
Alice Longyu Gao (2019)
* "Pushing Boulders" — Yesterday's Analog Earth Band (2019)
* "How Long?" — Gerard David Millman (2019)
* "Dumb Fast!" — Kaiya Crawford (2020)
* "Where Did I Go?" — Yung Skrrt (2020)
* "Mortifying Idea of Being Known" — Vera Much (2020)
* "Semiautomatic (demo)" — William Crooks (2020)
* "Tired" — Kaiya Crawford (2020)
* "How Do I?" — Kaiya Crawford (2020)
* "From Such a Distance" – Marbits (2021)
As part of WOW OK
Singles
*"Holy Moment" (2021)
*"27 Club" (2023)
Remixes
*"(FOREVER!!!!!!!!!)" —
Glass Beach (2021)
References
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1996 births
Living people
American indie pop musicians
Singers from Seattle
American non-binary musicians
Transgender women musicians
LGBT people from Washington (state)
American LGBT singers
American lesbian musicians
People on the autism spectrum
Transgender non-binary people
Lesbian comedians
People with post-traumatic stress disorder
People with borderline personality disorder
People with dissociative disorder
American Vine (service) celebrities
Record producers from Washington (state)
LGBT record producers
Bedroom pop musicians
Transgender comedians
Non-binary comedians
21st-century American LGBT people
Transgender singers
American LGBT comedians
American transgender musicians