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Florence Leontine Mary Welch〔 (mirror )〕 (born 28 August 1986)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Florence Welch )〕 is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the indie rock band Florence + the Machine. Florence + the Machine's debut album, ''Lungs'', was released in 2009; on 17 January 2010, the album reached the top position in the UK after being on the chart for 28 consecutive weeks. ''Lungs'' won the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2010. The group's second studio album, ''Ceremonials'', released in October 2011, debuted at number one in the UK and number six in the US. The band's third album, ''How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful'' was released in 2015 to very positive reviews on Metacritic, and topped the UK and US charts.〔("Florence + the Machine scores third No 1 album in the UK" ). The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2015〕 ==Early life== Florence Leontine Mary Welch was born in Camberwell, London on 28 August 1986. Her father is Nicholas Russell "Nick" Welch, a British advertising executive.〔 Her mother, Evelyn Welch (née Evelyn Kathleen Samuels), is an American immigrant from New York〔 who was educated at Harvard University and the Warburg Institute, University of London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview with Evelyn Welch )〕 Evelyn is currently Professor of Renaissance Studies and Vice-Principal for Arts and Sciences at King's College London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Vice-Principal for Arts & Sciences at King's )〕 Nick and Evelyn later divorced in 1990, and both remarried.〔 When she was 13 years old, Welch, her mother, and her two younger siblings moved in with their next-door neighbour and his three teenage children. According to Welch, "We get on brilliantly now, but it was a nightmare then. I just used to stay in my room and dance around". Welch is the niece of the satirist Craig Brown〔 via Brown's wife and Welch's aunt, Frances Welch, and granddaughter of Colin Welch (James Colin Ross Welch), former deputy editor of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and former ''Daily Mail'' parliamentary sketchwriter, originally of Cambridgeshire.〔 Welch's uncle (her mother's brother) is actor John Stockwell. Welch's fascination with terror and doom was intensified by the death of her grandparents within a few years of each other.〔 At 10 years old, Welch witnessed her paternal grandfather Colin's deterioration following a stroke and death on 28 January 1997; at 14 years old, her maternal grandmother, an art historian who had suffered from bipolar illness,〔 committed suicide.〔 During her youth, Welch was encouraged by her Scottish paternal grandmother, Sybil Welch (née Russell),〔 to pursue her performing and singing talents;〔 Welch sang 'The Skye Boat Song' at her paternal grandmother's funeral, following her death from a stroke. Welch sang at her maternal grandmother's funeral as well. Welch's deceased grandmothers inspired numerous songs on Florence and the Machine's début album, ''Lungs''. Although she has an American passport via her mother, growing up, she did not spend much time in the United States.〔 Florence was educated at Thomas's London Day School then went onto Alleyn's School, South East London, where she did well academically,〔 despite her diagnoses of dyslexia and dyspraxia. Welch often got in trouble in school for impromptu singing.〔 Upon leaving secondary school and "just bumming around Camberwell where I lived, working at a bar and thought that I should start doing something with life", Florence studied at Camberwell College of Arts before dropping out to focus on her music.〔 Initially, she had intended to take a year out from her studies to "see where the music would go and then it started going somewhere so I never went back".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florence Welch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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