Hannah Sian Topp (born 1990), known professionally as Aldous Harding, is a New Zealand
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singer-songwriter, based in
Lyttelton, New Zealand.
Biography
Harding comes from a musical family in
Lyttelton, New Zealand. Her mother is folk singer Lorina Harding.
One of the first musicians who came across her was New Zealand folk-pop singer/songwriter
Anika Moa. Moa asked Harding to play support for her that night after finding her busking outside the venue she was about to play at.
She has released music through independent record labels
Flying Nun, Spunk, and
4AD
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. She has collaborated with
Marlon Williams,
John Parish,
Mike Hadreas (also known as Perfume Genius), and
Fenne Lily
Fenne Lily (born 22 January 1997) is a Dorset-born, Bristol-based folk singer-songwriter. Her debut studio album, ''On Hold'', was released in 2018.
Early life
Fenne Lily was born in Dorset, United Kingdom. She has a brother, to whom her song ...
.
4AD announced Harding as a new signing in early 2017 just prior to the release of her second album, ''
Party
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.'' ''Party'' was nominated for
IMPALA
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's European Album of the Year Award.
The song "The Barrel", from her third album ''
Designer'' (Flying Nun, 4AD, 2019), won the 2019
APRA Silver Scroll award.
she is based in
Cardiff
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, Wales, where she had previously lived with partner and collaborator
H. Hawkline.
Discography
Studio albums
Other charted songs
References
External links
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Aldous Harding SubredditAldous Harding Flying Nun Records page
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1990 births
21st-century New Zealand women singers
4AD artists
Living people
New Zealand folk musicians
New Zealand singer-songwriters
People from Lyttelton, New Zealand