Billie Marten
| Billie Marten | |
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Billie Marten performing in 2015
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Isabella Sophie Tweddle |
| Born |
27 May 1999 Ripon, England |
| Genres | |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 2014–present |
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| Website | www.billiemarten.com |
Isabella Sophie Tweddle (born 27 May 1999), who performs under the stage name Billie Marten, is a singer-songwriter and musician from Ripon in North Yorkshire. She first came to prominence at the age of twelve when a video on YouTube of her singing attracted thousands of views. She released her first EP at the age of fifteen in 2014, and her second EP a year later. At the end of 2015 she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016 award.
Isabella (or "Billie") Tweddle was born 27 May 1999 in Ripon in North Yorkshire. She began playing guitar and singing when she was seven or eight, and started writing songs soon afterwards. By the age of nine she had her own YouTube channel on which she posted covers of pop songs, mostly for the benefit of her grandparents who live in France. When she was twelve she performed some music sessions for a local YouTube channel called Ont' Sofa. Among the songs she performed was a cover version of Lucy Rose's "Middle of the Bed", which quickly received thousands of views. In a later interview Marten said "I didn’t understand how quickly it could spread. I was super young and it was crazy." She was educated at Ripon Grammar School.
In May 2014, just before her fifteenth birthday, Billie Marten released the single "Ribbon" via Burberry's curation program. She wrote the single with Fiona Bevan the previous year. According to Marten, one theme of "Ribbon" is "the elusiveness of the city, and how quickly you can lose something amongst the people and tube stations." In June 2014 she released her debut EP Ribbon. In August 2014 Marten played the BBC Introducing stage at the Reading Festival. She described her music in December 2014 as "a mix between acoustic and quite folky and a little indie."
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