Kate Nash Biography

Born in Dublin on July 6, 1987, Kate Nash moved to Harrow in North London while she was still a child. She learned to play the piano at school but although her first love was acting, she turned back to the possibilities of a career in music after she was rejected for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She booked herself a local gig to showcase the songs she had written, and performed these alongside covers of current hits. Eventually, Nash uploaded some of her own compositions to the MySpace website, where she began to receive support for the storytelling nature of her songs; they were told in a distinctive London accent in a very similar way to Lily Allen, who had broken through to the mainstream earlier in the year. Indeed, the two women became real friends via their respective MySpace sites, each recommending the other's music.