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Laura Beatrice Marling is an English folk singer-songwriter born on 1 February 1990. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in 2011 and was nominated for the same award in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. Marling moved to London at age 16 to pursue a music career, joining her older sisters and performing with various groups. She released her debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, in 2008. Her albums I Speak Because I Can, Once I Was an Eagle, and Song for Our Daughter were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2010, 2013, and 2020, respectively. Her sixth album, Semper Femina, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Album category, as was Song for Our Daughter. In 2024, she released her eighth solo album, Patterns in Repeat. Her songwriting addresses themes such as sex and relationships, psychoanalysis, loss, modern womanhood, and trauma.