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Little Boots
Musical artist

Victoria Hesketh (born 1984), known professionally as Little Boots, is an English electropop musician. She sings, plays synthesizers, Japanese electronic instrument the Tenori-on, piano and the stylophone.

Biography

Hesketh was born in Blackpool on the Fylde coast in Lancashire and now lives in London. Her father is a businessman and her mother is an author of children's books. She has three younger brothers. She attended Rossall School, Blackpool Sixth Form College and then the University of Leeds, where she gained a first-class honours degree in cultural studies, with a dissertation on the concept of originality in jazz, which referenced Jamie Cullum amongst others.

At the age of 16, Hesketh took part in the ITV television talent show Pop Idol, being eliminated after three rounds. She went on to form a Jazz trio, toured Europe with a big band, and later formed the dance-pop band Dead Disco. Her solo stage name comes from a nickname given to her by a friend after watching the film Caligula (the Latin name Caligula translates as "little boot"). She appeared on Later... with Jools Holland in November 2008. She has collaborated with electropop band Hot Chip.

In January 2009 she came top of the BBC's Sound of 2009 and second in the BRITs Critics' Choice Award behind Florence and the Machine. In an interview in January 2009, Hesketh explained that she originally wrote "Stuck on Repeat" with the intention that Kylie Minogue would sing it.

On 4 March 2009 Little Boots was the subject of the entire late night talk show program Last Call with Carson Daly in the US. Hesketh was interviewed by Daly and several clips from a Los Angeles nightclub performance were shown.

In March 2009 Little Boots played the SXSW event in Austin, Texas. She is scheduled to many of major festivals in the UK during the summer of 2009.

Hesketh has confirmed that she will collaborate with American rapper Kid Cudi on a new version of his single "Day 'n' Nite" to be used to promote his debut album.

Hesketh is a self-professed pop musician:

I wanted to make a pop record. I don’t care about being cool or edgy. I wanna reach people and I wanna make music that people have fun to and have a good time.

Hesketh says that she retains creative control over her music by choosing her own producers and putting tracks on MySpace. She was linked by The Observer to a wave of female pop musicians in their 20s, including Lady Gaga, Ladyhawke, and Elly Jackson from the synth duo La Roux, who have "distinctive fashion sense, saturated by 80s references and insouciant androgyny".

Discography

Albums

EPs

Singles

  • "Stuck on Repeat" (2008)
  • "Meddle" (2008)
  • "New in Town" (25 May 2009) (first CD release)

References

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  2. ^ "Little Boots". MTV. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
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  4. "Little Boots: the Tenori-On, the video and the interview". The Guardian. 2009-01-11. Retrieved 2009-04-13. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. Wolfson, Sam (2008-10-12). "Flash forward: Little Boots". The Observer. Retrieved 2008-12-09. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ "Later With Jools Holland - Little Boots". BBC Online. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
  7. Ettridge, Lisa (2009-01-08). "Fylde singing star tipped as next big thing". Blackpool Gazette. Retrieved 2009-01-08. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. Duke, Robin (2008-11-06). "Little Boots' Big Break". Blackpool Gazette. Retrieved 2008-12-30. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. Alexis, Petridis (2009-01-10). "'I've done so much embarrassing stuff it's untrue'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-01-10. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. Monger, James Christopher. "Little Boots - Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
  11. Heawood, Sophie (2009-01-10). "Little Boots is the big sound for 2009". The Times. Retrieved 2009-01-12. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  12. Clarke, Paul (2008-09-17). "Little Boots: queen of geek chic". Metro. Retrieved 2008-12-12. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. "Little Boots tops music tips list". BBC News. 2009-01-09. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
  14. "Critics' Choice". The Brits. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
  15. Heller, Josh (2009-01-18). "Little Boots Interview". The Comment Tree. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
  16. "Last Call with Carson Daly - Little Boots Interview". NBC. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
  17. "Little Boots: 'I'm doing nearly all the UK festivals this summer!'". NME. 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2009-04-13. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  18. Gregory, Jason (2009-04-06). "Little Boots And Kid Cudi To Re-Work 'Day N' Nite' - Exclusive". Festivalwise. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
  19. Lash, Jolie (2009-03-25). "Rising Star: Little Boots". Access Hollywood. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  20. Day, Elizabeth (2009-04-19). "Pop's new wave: quirky, stylish girls fashioned from the 80s". The Observer. Retrieved 2009-04-20. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  21. Ganz, Caryn (2009-03-25). "Breaking: Little Boots". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-04-13. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  22. "Madonna Plans Another Greatest Hits Plus Beastie Boys, Little Boots and Florence and the Machine". albumvote.co.uk. 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  23. Hesketh, Victoria (2009-03-09). "Hi from the sky". Little Boots (Mailing list). Retrieved 2009-03-11. {{cite mailing list}}: Unknown parameter |mailinglist= ignored (|mailing-list= suggested) (help)

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