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Bat for Lashes
Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), better known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released three studio albums, ''Fur and Gold'' (2006), ''Two Suns'' (2009) and ''The Haunted Man'' (2012), and received Mercury Prize nominations for ''Fur and Gold'' and ''Two Suns''. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey.
==Early life==
Khan was born to an English mother, Josie, and Pakistani father, squash player Rahmat Khan. A member of the Khan family, she is the granddaughter of squash player Nasrullah Khan and the niece of squash players Jahangir Khan and Torsam Khan, and the stepdaughter of singer and actress Salma Agha and half-sister of actress Sasha Agha. Khan is of Pashtun descent and British and Pakistani ancestry. Khan moved to Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire with her family when she was five years old. She attended many of her father and uncle Jahangir's squash matches, which she felt inspired her creativity: "The roar of the crowd is intense; it is ceremonial, ritualistic, I feel like the banner got passed to me but I carried it on in a creative way. It is a similar thing, the need to thrive on heightened communal experience."〔 After her father left the family when Khan was 11, she taught herself to play the piano, which became "a channel to express things, to get them out".〔
Khan was subject to racial abuse during secondary school, played truant, and was suspended after swearing and throwing a chair at a teacher. She told the ''Telegraph:'' "'I was an outsider at school. When I came back from being suspended they had told the small group of friends that I did have there that they weren't allowed to talk to me because I was a really bad influence. Then it got quite lonely."〔 After completing her GCSEs and A-Levels, Khan took a job in a card-packing factory where she would work while listening to songs she had made. She said: "My internal imaginary life was really fruitful at that time. I remember packing cards and just listening to songs that I had made the night before on my mini-disc player. All day long just listening and dreaming, while counting the cards to be packed."〔 With money saved from the job, she embarked on a three-month road trip through USA and Mexico.〔
After returning to the UK, Khan settled in Brighton in 2000 to study music and visual arts at the University of Brighton,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=interview with Natasha Khan )〕 where she produced sound installations, animations, and performances influenced by artists including Steve Reich and Susan Hiller.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet Natasha Khan, the alluring songstress behind Bat for Lashes )〕 After finishing her degree, Khan completed an NVQ in play work and childcare and worked as a nursery school teacher, dedicating her spare time to developing songs, recording demos and gigging in Brighton.
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