Ladyhawke

Ladyhawke

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About Ladyhawke

Embracing the bright soundscapes of classic ‘80s synth-pop and gritty ‘90s angst, Ladyhawke builds expansive, genre-blurring songs. Born Phillipa Margaret “Pip” Brown in New Zealand in 1979 and raised in a musical family, she was playing in grunge bands before she finished secondary school. In the early 2000s, she played in punk band Two Lane Blacktop and art-rock group Teenager until the latter’s Nick Littlemore heard her solo tunes and advised her to strike out on her own. Equal parts brash, fizzy and dramatic, her 2008 self-titled debut was packed with hooks, as singles like the relentless “My Delirium” or the incendiary, disco-inflected “Paris Is Burning” attest. In 2012, she laid into the fuzzed-out guitars of her ‘90s influences for Anxiety, where twisted, bristling indie-pop songs like “Black White & Blue” detailed her experience with Asperger’s Syndrome. Brown has never shied away from exploring her personal life through her music: 2016’s Wild Things brimmed with joyful fare like the soaring “A Love Song”, while 2021’s sophisticated Time Flies confronted depression with heavy, catchy pop.

HOMETOWN
Wellington, New Zealand
BORN
13 July 1979
GENRE
Pop

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