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Duffy Profile |
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Birth Date: June 23, 1984
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Birth Place: Gwynedd, Wales, UK
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Birth Name: Aimee Anne Duffy
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Biography |
Aimee Anne Duffy (born June 1984 in Gwynedd, Wales), known
professionally as Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter.
Raised in Nefyn on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, with
her twin sister, Katy, and older sister Kelly, Aimee Anne
Duffy's parents divorced when she was 10, and she moved to
Pembrokeshire with her mother and sisters. She dropped her
first name at the age of 19, calling herself Duffy
professionally and personally.
Duffy's early interest in singing was apparently inspired by
her father John Duffy's videotape of the 1960s television
rock show Ready Steady Go! - she says she grew up without a
record collection of her own. Duffy started singing at age 6
and at that age carried around a notebook in which she
scribbled lyrics. She was booted from her school choir
because her voice was "too big; I didn't fit in".
Duffy was put in a safe house in 1998 when police uncovered
a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay a hitman £3000 to
kill her stepfather, identified as Philip Smith. Her
stepfather's ex-wife served a 3 1/2 year jail term for the
incident. A 1998 article in another British tabloid quotes a
man identified as Philip Smith describing similar
circumstances. The tabloid quoted Duffy as saying about the
alleged incident: "I was so terrified. I felt so ill." She
cites the effects of her stepfather's ex-wife's alcoholism
as the reason for her not being a user of alcohol or drugs. |
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British singer. |
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since June 19, 2008