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Heap in 2010, photo by Joe Seer /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap
Place of Birth: Havering, Essex, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 9 December, 1977
Ethnicity: English, Scottish
Imogen Heap is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and audio engineer. She is known for her pioneering work in pop and electropop music. She is also known as Imogen Jennifer Heap.
Her name was inspired by composer Imogen Holst. She performed music from an early age, and became classically trained in several instruments, including piano, cello, and clarinet. Her father, a construction rock retailer, and her mother, an art therapist, separated when she was twelve. By thirteen, she had begun writing songs. Imogen principally taught herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production, on Atari computers. She also taught herself to play the guitar and drums, and the percussion/idiophone instruments, the array mbira and the Hang. After school, Imogen went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London.
Imogen has a daughter with her former partner, director Michael Lebor.
Imogen’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Paterson.