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Girli
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Amelia Toomey (born 6 December 1997), known professionally as Girli, is an English singer and songwriter. Based in London, she has released a number of singles, five EPs and two studio albums. The Guardian has described her sound as veering "between PC Music, bubblegum pop, pop punk and rap, each one treading a line between catchy and deliberately discomforting." Much of her music is about feminism, sexuality, queer culture, and mental health.
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- Person
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- Female
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1997
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Amelia "Milly" Toomey was born on 6 December 1997 in North London. She began her solo career in 2014, choosing a stage name inspired by Blondie, with an attention-catching aesthetic that was part cyberpunk and part J-Pop. She struck out on her own, performing at all the local open mic nights that she could find, which eventually caught the attention of BBC Radio 1. Her inventive sound combined the futuristic pop of Charli XCX, the cheek of Lily Allen, the attitude of M.I.A., and the genre-blurri
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London Borough of Camden
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- alternative pop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Virgin EMI Records
- Official website
- girlimusic.com
- Image
- Girli 2019.jpg
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- 1997-12-06
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- Girli
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- bisexuality
- medical condition
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- name in native language
- Girli
- birth name
- Amelia Kate Woodward Toomey
- hair style / hair length
- mullet
- influenced by
- Tegan and Sara
- social media followers
- 147000
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Amelia Toomey (born 6 December 1997), known professionally as Girli, is an English singer and songwriter. Based in London, she has released a number of singles, five EPs and two studio albums. The Guardian has described her sound as veering "between PC Music, bubblegum pop, pop punk and rap, each one treading a line between catchy and deliberately discomforting." Much of her music is about feminism, sexuality, queer culture, and mental health.
In April 2019, Girli released her debut studio album, Odd One Out, on PMR Records. After being dropped by her record label and later being forced to cancel her 2020 Sofa Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Girli released the EP Ex Talk in 2021. She is currently with independent label AllPoints and released her second album Matriarchy in 2024.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Girli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.