Imogen Heap

Imogen Jennifer Heap was born in London Borough of Havering, London. She began playing music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several instruments including Piano, cello and clarinet by the age of 13. She attended Friends School, a private boarding school where she did not get along with her music teacher and gradually taught herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production. In the mid-1990s she attended the famed BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London. After being introduced to Nik Kershaw by his manager Mickey Modern, Heap and Kershaw recorded four demos that Mickey Modern took to Rondor Music. Consequently, a few months later she signed her first record contract at 18 to independent record label Almo Sounds. Her debut album, "I Megaphone", was released in 1998 to strong reviews that compared her to Tori Amos, PJ Harvey and Kate Bush. The album, however, had little commercial success and she eventually found herself witho