The official music video for the song was directed by Sophie Muller. The single was chosen as 'Record of the Week' by UK radio DJ Fearne Cotton, resulting in it being added to BBC Radio 1's B‑list playlist as soon as it was released in March 2011. The song became her first hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at 17. In January 2011, at the age of 14, Birdy released a cover version of Bon Iver's song ' Skinny Love'. In 2009, Birdy performed live on piano for BBC Radio 3's Pianothon in London. She performed her own song, called 'So Be Free', at the competition in front of 2,000 people. She won both the under-18s category and the Grand Prize, against 10,000 other competitors. In 2008, as a 12-year-old, Birdy won the UK talent contest Open Mic UK, a spinoff of the Live and Unsigned competition. Her family and friends call her Birdy, while only teachers called her Jasmine, her given name. Her stage name comes from the nickname her parents gave her as a baby, because she opened her mouth like a little bird when fed. Career 2008–12: Career beginnings, and Birdy Her great-great-great grandfather was Belgian, the rest of her ancestors were English and Scottish. Her great-uncle was the actor Sir Dirk Bogarde. Her grandfather is Captain John Christopher Ingram Roper-Curzon, the 20th Baron Teynham and a member of the Peerage of England, and she grew up on the family estate near Lymington. Birdy studied at Brockenhurst College in Brockenhurst, a sixth form college in the New Forest, as of 2013. Her parents were married in 1995 and have two other children: Jake, born in 1997, and Caitlin in 1999. Birdy learned to play the piano at the age of seven, and began writing her own music at the age of eight. Sophie Patricia (née Roper-Curzon) is a concert pianist. Her father is Rupert Oliver Benjamin van den Bogaerde her mother, the Hon.

2.2 2013–15: Fire Within and other activitiesīirdy was born on, in Lymington, Hampshire, UK.2.1 2008–12: Career beginnings, and Birdy.

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