Lily Allen is a Grammy Award-nominated British alternative pop/rock singer-songwriter and musician.

Allen was born 2^nd May 1985 in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. She learned to play piano and sing in her teens and dropped out of school at fifteen to concentrate on her music full time. She created several demo tapes and in 2005 started to post them on her MySpace account. Within just a few months she had accumulated thousands of followers, which persuaded the label Regal Recordings to release an album of her material.

Alright, Still was released in July 2006. It was a critical and commercial hit, debuting at number two in the UK Albums Chart and number twenty on the US Billboard 200, and has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide to date. The lead single Smile spent two weeks at number one in the UK, while LDN, Alfie and Shame for You all reached the Top 20. The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 50^th Grammy Awards.

Allen followed this success with It’s Not Me, It’s You, released in February 2009. It debuted at number one in the UK, Australia and Canada, and at number five in the US, and won Allen her first Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist. The album’s first single The Fear reached number one in the UK and stayed there for four consecutive weeks, while the second single Not Fair reached number four. The album’s third international single Fuck You, written about George Bush, was her highest charting hit in the US, while the subsequent singles 22 and Who’d Have Known both charted in the UK Top 40. Allen also scored a Top 30 hit in Australia with Back to the Start.

Lily Allen’s year-long It’s Not Me, It’s You World Tour finished in March 2010 and she is currently taking an indefinite hiatus.