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This article needs additional citations for verification.You can assist by editing it now.Romford, London, most famous for her work as part of Frou Frou and for her 2005 solo record Speak for Yourself, which she wrote, produced and mixed herself.In 2006, she was nominated for two Grammy Awards.The year of the 'White Rabbit'
1.Tracks written for television and film
3 Usage of Heap's songs
4 Tracks for other artists
5 Charity
6 Discography
6.Early life
Heap has played music from an early age, and is classically trained in many instruments, including the piano (her first instrument), cello and clarinet.She later taught herself to play the guitar, drums, and the array mbira.She had begun to write songs by the time of her thirteenth birthday.After being introduced to Nik Kershaw by his manager Mickey Modern, Imogen recorded four demos with Nik which Mark and Mickey took to Rondor Music.Mark Wood and Mickey Modern formed Modernwood Management and they managed Imogen over the next ten years.In 2006, modernwood ended and Imogen continues to be managed by Mark Wood at his new company, Radius Music.Dennis Arnold, a friend of Mickey's, loved Imogen and recommended she should play at the 1996 Prince's Trust Concert in Hyde Park, London organized by Harvey Goldsmith.PJ Harvey, Kate Bush and Annie Lennox.David Kahne, Dave Stewart and Guy Sigsworth."Oh Me, Oh My" was also sent to US radio stations in place of "Shine".Almo Sounds cut funding for the UK promotional, and gave Heap a deadline to deliver songs for her second album; she was told that they lacked "hit potential" and left her in limbo for over a year, worsened when it was announced that the record label had been sold to Universal and would be shut down and disbanded, with its repertoire of artists moving or leaving the label.November 14, 2006 to coincide with her Fall 2006 North American tour.Greenwich Mean Time and "Blanket", a collaboration with Urban Species, which was commercially released on 2 CDs, as well as being available on the Urban Species album of the same name."Aeroplane", for which a video was released exclusively to Japanese media."Kidding", recorded live during her 1999 tour.The album was also released on the U.Sigsworth himself was also having record label issues, as his band, Acacia, were being ignored.In December 2001, they made the conscious decision to form a duo together.Island Records would not be picking up the option for a second album.So I didn't take the deal."Bonnie Tyler classic, "Holding Out for a Hero", which was featured during the credits of the movie Shrek 2 after Jennifer Saunders' version in the film.Frou Frou saw a resurgence in popularity in 2004, when their album track "Let Go" was featured in the film Garden State."Daylight Robbery" (which started out as a sample recorded for a television advert).Heap set herself a deadline of one year to make the album, booking a session to master the album exactly one year ahead in December 2004.UK grime artist, Dizzee Rascal), and purchasing instruments (as a birthday present to herself).KCRW, who had also supported the Frou Frou record.Heap announced at a December 2006 concert in Lawrence, KS that the track "Just for Now" was also originally written for The O.Christmas and Hanukkah song titled "Chrismukkah" but was deemed by the producers to be "too dark.""Speeding Cars" and closed with her haunting rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".The show's season one finale ended with a recording of the same song by artist Jeff Buckley.Heap as "more Madonna than Guns N' Roses, more Donnie Darko than Dirty Dancing...It was released in the UK on July 18, 2005 on CD and iTunes UK, where it entered the top 10 chart; the initial 10,000 physical copies pressed also sold out quickly, distributed through large and independent record stores, and Heap's own online shop."Hide and Seek", thanks to exposure from The O.UK radio station BBC Radio One, with DJ Scott Mills featuring it as his record of the week, and provoking strong reactions ("love it or hate it") from other DJs at the station.The track has also been featured on downtempo compilation CDs, including The Chillout Session 2006.Other singles from the album include "Goodnight and Go" and "Headlock".She played both "Hide and Seek" and "Goodnight and Go" on Last Call With Carson Daly.When she returned from the U.UK, which saw her playing to a crowd of 2000 at the Shepherds Bush Empire in March 2006 and going on to perform for 3300 people at the reopened The Roundhouse venue in October 2006 which also marked the first public concert to ever take place at the newly refurbished London venue.The deal means that the album can have the promotional backing provided by a respected major label, whilst Heap retains sole control, and the team she established for Megaphonic Records.April 24, 2006, ahead of a full promotional push on May 15, a week after the second single, "Goodnight and Go", was commercially released in the UK on CD (featuring artwork by Ryan Obermeyer and a special lenticular cover), and special limited edition 7" vinyl.The track was remixed by Heap for radio to include elements from her live performances of the track and labelled as 'Immi's Radio Mix', which is accompanied on the release by a brand new track entitled "Speeding Cars", which she performed at tour dates in the UK in February and March.US market was released in late April, and both "Speeding Cars" and Immi's Radio Mix of "Goodnight and Go" were made available via iTunes a few days later, to coincide with her appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.TV station, Channel M, in early September, before being sent to other music television channels for rotation, and promo CDs of the single were sent out featuring a drum and bass remix of the track by High Contrast.In late September and early October, Heap embarked on a tour of the UK, holding a competition on MySpace for different support acts for each venue, before touring throughout Canada and the USA in November and December.This was her first tour of North America that included a band, incorporating upright bass, percussion, and support acts Kid Beyond and Levi Weaver on beatbox and guitar, respectively.In December 2006, Heap was featured on the front page of The Green Room magazine.Heap announced in May 2007 that she will not be making appearances for most of the year in order to complete the scoring for the Disney documentary and to work on her forthcoming third solo album that is expected out in 2009.Currently, one of Heap's latest Video Blogs revealed that, at the rate of recording a song every two weeks (with twelve songs in total), the latest record would be finished in December 2008, a day before her birthday."Wait it Out", "Swoon", "First Train Home", "Half Life", and "But...".The song was also used on the official soundtrack for the NBC show, Heroes.Heap has stated on her online blog however, that she isn't sure if the song will even end up on the album.December 8th, the day before her birthday, and begin mastering it the day after.Heap has stated that she failed to make the recording date again with everything else that she had lined up.She stated that this time around, she had many more commitments besides recording, and other projects that she wanted to do.Even though she has struggled meeting the recording goals she has set up, Heap stated that she is about a month away from finishing the album.Tracks written for television and film
In addition to albums, Heap has also been approached to record songs for films, including a cover of the Classics IV hit, "Spooky", for the soundtrack to the Reese Witherspoon film, Just Like Heaven.Also Heap's song "Hide and Seek" was featured in The Last Kiss, featuring Zach Braff.It was also used in a 2007 episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Shia LaBeouf.Heap has recorded an a cappella version of the Leonard Cohen track, "Hallelujah", for the season three finale of The O.Heap has recently announced that she will no longer be scoring the latest Disney motion picture about flamingos.However, Heap also mentioned that she is hungry for a score after her next album is finished.In addition, Heap composed a track for the soon to be released The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, but it was deemed to be too dark in tone for the film.In 2006 Heap recorded a cover of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" for The OC marking her second season finale appearance.The shows after music listing featured music from the upcoming soundtrack "The OC Mix 6: Covering Our Tracks".However when the track listing for this all cover album was released on the internet Heap was missing from the soundtrack and the soundtrack did not feature her on it after its release.For unknown reasons Heap's cover had been dropped from the album.The cover was a homage to the role reversals of the characters Ryan and Marissa in which the end of season 1 and 3 each character was leaving Newport.Usage of Heap's songs
Frou Frou's song "Let Go" was featured in the soundtrack to Zach Braff's movie Garden State, and was also featured on the DC snowboarding movie Mtn."Hide and Seek" is used for season two of So You Think You Can Dance for the top 6 contemporary group dance choreographed by Mia Michaels and was featured in Zach Braff's film The Last Kiss."Hide and Seek" was also used in an SNL Digital Short entitled "Dear Sister" that parodied the episode entitled The Dearly Beloved of the American television show The O."Can't Take It In" was featured during the closing credits of The Chronicles of Narnia.In June 2007, Apple started using an instrumental version of "Goodnight and Go" in its online demonstration videos to promote its upcoming Mac OS X v10."Loose Ends" was used in an episode of MTV's The Hills.Heap's "Goodnight and Go" was used on MTV's Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County.The song "The Moment I Said It" is used in the third season of So You Think You Can Dance for the top 10 contemporary group dance also choreographed by Mia Michaels, in the closing scenes of an episode of the show Criminal Minds and the show Ghost Whisperer, as well as in CSI."Goodnight and Go" was also used on an episode of the sixth season of Celebrity Fit Club.Her song "Mic Check" was used in the fourth season of So You Think You Can Dance as part of the choreography again by Mia Michaels for Contemporary during Vegas week.IAMX, Jeff Beck, Temposhark, LHB, J.Peter Schwalm, Way Out West, Jon Bon Jovi, Mich Gerber, Sean Lennon, Urban Species, Blue October, Matt Willis, Jon Hopkins, and Acacia.Heap has also written and produced for Fame Academy winner Alex Parks, but their collaboration was not released on her album, Honesty.Although the track was not included on In the Zone, it was released in late 2005 on the UK and Japan DVD release of Spears' Britney and Kevin: Chaotic TV show.Her songs (both specially composed and album tracks) comprise the principal score for Mark Ravenhill's pool (no water) play, performed by Frantic Assembly and toured around the UK."Now Or Never", on which she played all the instruments."Hide and Seek" is also featured as a remixed version on Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise 6.Auralgasms Interview From January 2006
beat Lawrence: Imogen Heap Video Interview
Imogen Heap video interview on TiFFcast, November 2006
Portrait of Imogen Heap on 365portraits.This page was last modified on 8 January 2009, at 02:00.Robert Cameron Mitchell, Richard T.
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