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| occupation = | years_active = 2004–present (hiatus)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Duffy to take a break from the music business )〕 | label = | associated_acts = Bernard Butler | website = (iamduffy.com ) | notable_instruments = }} Duffy (born 23 June 1984 as Aimee Ann Duffy) is a Welsh singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, she was introduced to Jeannette Lee of Rough Trade Records, which led to her signing a recording contract with A&M Records in 2007. Following the release of the singles "Rockferry" (2007) and "Mercy" (2008), the latter reaching singles charts worldwide, Duffy released her 2008 debut album ''Rockferry''. The album entered the UK Album Chart at number one, and became the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold. The album was certified several times Platinum and sold over 7 million copies worldwide, spawning further successful singles. With "Mercy", Duffy became the first Welsh woman to achieve number-one on the UK Singles Chart since 1983, while ''Rockferry'' was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album amongst further nominations at the 51st Grammy Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The 51st Annual Grammy Awards Winners List )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brits on top: Duffy, Adele and Coldplay clinch top awards as they lead British winners at Grammys )〕 In 2009, she won three Brit Awards for British Breakthrough, Best British Female and Best British Album. In 2010, Duffy released her second album ''Endlessly''. Following its relative critical and commercial failure, in February 2011, Duffy announced she would take an extended hiatus from music before beginning work on her third album,〔 and made her acting debut in the film ''Patagonia''.〔Andre Paine. (16 September 2010) (Duffy Teams With Roots, Albert Hammond ). ''Billboard''. 16 September 2010. Billboard.biz. Retrieved 26 May 2012.〕〔 She has since appeared in, and contributed music to, the films ''Secret Love'' and ''Legend'' (both 2015), in the latter playing American singer Timi Yuro. == Early life == Duffy was born in Bangor, Gwynedd to an English father John Duffy, who was born in Liverpool and brought up in Rock Ferry, Wirral; and a Welsh mother, Joyce Smith (née Williams), born in Bangor, Caernarfonshire and brought up in Nefyn, near Pwllheli. She was partly raised in Nefyn with her twin sister, Katy Ann, and older sister Kelly Ann, who was born in 1980. Duffy's parents divorced when she was 10 and she moved to Letterston, near the Pembrokeshire town of Fishguard with her mother and sisters. Duffy attended Ysgol Nefyn (Nefyn School), Gwynedd on the Llyn Peninsula and Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire as a child. At the age of 17, she attended the Pwllheli campus of Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor to study for her A levels. She subsequently went to the University of Chester and studied for Commercial Music Production on the Warrington campus. From 2004, she studied Performing Arts at the Parkgate campus. In September 1998, at the age of 14, Duffy was briefly put in a police safe house when authorities uncovered a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay an assassin £3,000 to kill her stepfather, Philip Smith. Smith's ex-wife, Dawn Watson, was sentenced to a 3½-year jail term for soliciting to murder. Smith had previously beaten up Watson's new husband Marc Watson, who had also accused Smith of being violent towards his ex-partner whilst they were together. "I was so terrified. I felt so ill," Duffy recounted in 2008, as reported by the ''NME'' and ''the Sun''.〔''Duffy in teen 'kill plot' hell''. ''The Sun'' (London); 31 March 2008; p. 3 (Online at Proquest UK ) (subscription or library card required,) Retrieved 8 September 2008.〕〔''(I smoke my head off )''. Guardian Unlimited 31 March 2008〕〔Ward, Sharon "The woman I'd loved paid a hitman £3,000 to blast my head off; Husband tells of death-threat terror." Daily Mirror 3 October 1998, p.8. (Highbeam ) and (Proquest NewsUK ). Retrieved 8 September 2008.〕 Duffy describes living in the safe house as a dog-eat-dog, claustrophobic and isolating experience. At age 15, she ran away back to her father's home in Nefyn. Duffy said in retrospect, "It was a horrendous thing to do." Her mother and her sisters did not speak to her for about a year afterward. In reaction to her parents' break-up, the following three years were a rebellious period that included binge drinking and stealing a rowing boat. 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「Duffy (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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