Laura Marling

About Laura Marling

Laura Marling is an English folk singer-songwriter. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards and was nominated for the same award at the 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 Brit Awards.

Prior to her solo career, she was a member of the indie folk band Noah and the Whale, but left after the dissolution of her romantic partnership with the band's leader. She released her debut solo album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, in 2008. Her first album, her second album I Speak Because I Can, her fourth album Once I Was an Eagle, and her seventh album Song for Our Daughter were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2020, respectively. Her sixth record, Semper Femina, was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Album category, as was Song for Our Daughter. In 2024, Marling released her eighth solo record, Patterns in Repeat.

Her songwriting is associated with sex and relationships, psychoanalysis, loss, the modern concept of womanhood, and trauma.Marling's eight studio solo albums have all been met with critical acclaim and she is widely considered to be one of the most accomplished songwriters of the nu folk music scene in Britain.

In 2018, she released her first album as part of the folktronica duo Lump, with a second album, Animal, releasing in 2021.

She completed her master's degree in psychoanalysis in 2024 and is a full-time stay-at-home mother, in addition to her career as a singer-songwriter. Her boyfriend owns a restaurant specialising in charcuterie in East London. Marling was previously a vegan but is a vegetarian as of 2024. In a 2024 interview with The Times, Marling described the initial five-album record deal she signed as a teenager as "dreadful"; neither she nor her daughter own the rights to her first five albums, which Marling further explained is "devastating".