Sandi Thom
| Sandi Thom | |
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Thom performing live in 2011
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alexandria Thom |
| Born |
11 August 1981 Banff, Scotland |
| Origin | Macduff, Scotland |
| Genres | Pop, folk, R&B, rock, blues |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | RCA, Sony, Guardian Angels |
| Website | www |
Alexandria "Sandi" Thom (born 11 August 1981) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Banff, Scotland. She became widely known in 2006 after her debut single, "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)", topped the UK Singles Chart in June of that year. The single became the biggest-selling single of 2006 in Australia, where it spent ten weeks at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart. Thom has released five studio albums: Smile... It Confuses People (2006), The Pink & the Lily (2008), Merchants and Thieves (2010), Flesh And Blood (2012), and The Covers Collection (2013).
Thom was born in Banff. She attended Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. Thom spent three years playing piano and singing in a band from Gourdon in Aberdeenshire, called The Residents.
Thom became the youngest student ever to be accepted at the prestigious Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA). In 2003, Thom graduated from LIPA with a BA in Performing Arts.
Thom has assisted many charity appeals for Oxfam's work in Malawi and across east Africa.
In 2004, Thom moved to London to pursue her songwriting career, working with three co-writers: Jake Field, Duncan Thompson and Tom Gilbert. Thom signed to Windswept Pacific Music in 2005, an independent music publishing company, and its UK arm, P&P Songs, and received £25,000. She signed a record contract with the record label Viking Legacy, Where her mother was director who released her début single, "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)" in late 2005. The song failed to garner major airplay or sales and release of her début was delayed.
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