Mowgli's Road was re-released as Marina and the Diamonds' debut album's lead single in November 2009. ❞ĭiamandis' debut single was a double A-side, consisting of Obsessions and Mowgli's Road, which was released in the United States on 19 November 2008, through Derek Davies' newly formed label, Neon Gold Records, on her request. I had no manager, was doing all the meetings alone, was extremely confident and driven and knew exactly what i wanted. I think everyone saw me as a project that had a lot of potential but also as someone very risky: I looked like a wild card to them. I met over 14 labels and only really took 2 seriously. Everyone else just wanted to look like they were about to offer.
679 where the only people to have the guts to offer a contract.
In 2012, Marina spoke about this period of her life in an interview with PopDirt, recalling: An estimated seventy copies were sold overall. Sailor was released on the 23rd of November 2007, created on hand-made CD-Rs and sold through her MySpace page. She believes her producing her own music got people to listen to her. Marina credits discovering the music of Daniel Johnson for giving her the confidence to start composing her own music, and notes it was her student loan that gave her the financial freedom to be able to buy a laptop. Sometime in 2007, Marina decided she would start producing her own songs. Marina's MySpace was made on the 13th of June 2006, where she uploaded some of the songs produced by this unknown man. Marina said in an 2010 interview that she had been writing since 2005, and in 2006 hired a producer but did not like the "awful prog rock band" sound. I was terribly awkward for a long time! I really craved to be part of one thing because I never felt too connected to anybody and now I feel I have that all around me. A space for people with similar ideals who could not fit into life's pre-made mold. I saw a simple group made up of many people who had the same hearts. ❝ I never envisaged a character, pop project, band or solo artist. She did a year on her Music and Culture course, earning a first, but was bored of the course and transferred from the University of East London to Middlesex University for Music Composition, only staying for two months. Her Vocal Tech course was at Tech Music Schools, but said she was there less than three months. Marina went to a stage school for three months in London for her dance course. She did not want to have a job such as waitressing because she believed it would tire her out too much to be creative. Marina said university to her was a "way to buy time, and get better as a songwriter" as she "wasn't good enough in the beginning" and she had to do something with her life. She stated she quit because she did not want to be in university, she wanted to be in the business learning everything first hand. Marina moved to London at eighteen where she started and dropped out of four different university courses: Dance, Vocal Tech, Music and Culture and Music Composition. She went to St Catherine's British Embassy School, taking the International Baccalaureate, Marina said she got 'excellent grades'. Her parents divorced when she was sixteen, and she moved to Athens, Greece to live with her father and "to connect with my heritage and learn to speak the language" as she was bored and unstimulated where she was, in 2010 she called it the two best years of her life. Diamandis said she would get up at 2am to study for her GCSEs until 7am, then do even more studying when she got back from school.
She learnt flute to grade 5 and violin to grade minus 2. Self-described as "the one who always skived off choir, but I had an incredible music teacher who managed to convince me I could do anything", Marina was musical from an early age and expressed a desire to become a performer from as early as age nine. She attended school at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, the school she accredits for allowing her to "find her talent there". I spent summers in Russia, in the Ukraine, my dad worked in Japan for a long time, it's part of my growing up. During her school holidays, Marina travelled to be with her father. Marina and her family lived in Greece for a time, however after her parents separated, moved to a small bungalow in the village of Pandy, Wales, when she was four. The three lived in Japan before Marina was born, and she was conceived in Nagasaki, and was born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. Marina's mother, Esther, is Welsh, and her father, Dimos, is Greek, she has one older sister, Lafina. 1.9 2020-present: Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land.1.5 2011-13: Electra Heart and international breakthrough.1.4 2008–10: Breakthrough and The Family Jewels.
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