Birdy’s ability to distill the pure emotion of a song—whether it’s someone else’s or her own—is her most magnetic quality. This rare trait was evident from the start when, at 14 years old, the British vocalist covered Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love,” stripping down the already bare-bones ballad to its most fragile core.

Jasmine van den Bogaerde, more commonly known as Birdy, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She rose to stardom in 2011 for her cover of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love.”

Birdy was born on 15 May 1996, in Lymington, England. [6] Her father is Rupert Oliver Benjamin van den Bogaerde, a writer; her mother is Sophie Patricia (née Roper-Curzon). She stated that listening to classical music and the songs her mother played has been a big influence on her sound. [7] Her parents were married in 1995 and have two other children: Jake, born in 1997, and Caitlin in 1999 ...

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Birdy was born on 15 May 1996, in Lymington, Hampshire. Her mother is a concert pianist, and Birdy learned to play piano at the age of seven, and began writing her own music at the age of eight. Birdy currently studies at Brockenhurst College in Brockenhurst, a sixth form college in the New Forest; she sings and plays the piano. Her great uncle...