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FKA twigs
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English singer and dancer (born 1988)
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FKA twigs, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett in 1988 in Cheltenham, is a British singer, singer-songwriter, drummer, and record producer. She began her work period in 2004 and is a citizen of the United Kingdom. Her musical fields include electronic dance music, pop music, and alternative music, with trip hop as a primary genre. She performs on keyboard instruments and voice.
Educated at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology, she resides in Tewkesbury. Her record labels include Young and XL Recordings. She has received a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album. Her pseudonyms include twigs and FKA twigs. She has had unmarried partnerships with Robert Pattinson, Shia LaBeouf, and Matty Healy.
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Film & TV
Acting · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 16 January 1988), known professionally as FKA twigs, is an English singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, director and actor. Her father is Jamaican, and her mother is English, who is of part Spanish descent. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England she became a backup dancer after moving to London when she was 17 years old.
Known for
- Mother Mary — Imogen2026
- The Carpenter's Son — The Mother2025
- The Crow — Shelly Webster2024
- FKA twigs: THE BODY IS ART2024
- Therapuss — Self2024
- PLAYSCAPE2022
- Madame X Presents: Madame Xtra Q&A — Self2021
- Dua Lipa: Studio 2054 — Self2020
- Honey Boy — Shy Girl2019
- FKA Twigs Live at Maida Vale — Self(as FKA Twigs)2019
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- England
- Active from
- 1988
Discography
- EP12012
- EP22013
- Water Me2013
- FKA × inc.2014
- Give Up2014
- LP12014
- Two Weeks2014
- Two Weeks / Pendulum2014
- Video Girl2014
- Wet Wipez2014
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,695,341
- Total plays
- 158,002,361
Tags
Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 16 January 1988), known professionally as FKA twigs, is an English singer, songwriter, and dancer. Born and raised in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, she became a backup dancer for numerous famous musicians after moving to London at the age of 17, and made her own musical debut with EP1 (2012) and EP2 (2013). Barnett's debut studio album, LP1 (2014), reached number 16 on the UK Albums Chart and number 30 on the US Billboard 200. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/FKA+
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Investigations and Measures to Guarantee the Safety of a Pressurized Water Reactor's Pressure Vessel Against Brittle Fracture
· 1986 · cited 5x
- Advances in Catalyst Technology for Light Duty Diesels for South American and European Emission Levels
· 1998 · cited 4x
- Analisis Ketahanan Fisik Jamur Tiram oleh Paparan Medan Magnet Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Intensitas 600 μT dan 900 μT
· 2022 · cited 2x
- Standard pleural interventions are not high-risk aerosol generating procedures
· 2021 · cited 1x
- origin: Explicitly Qualifying Namespaces by Automatically Adding 'pkg::' to Functions
· 2021
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Key facts
- Born
- Tahliah Debrett Barnett , ( 1988-01-17 ) 17 January 1988 (age 38) , Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , England
- Genres
- Avant-pop electronic art pop R&B trip hop techno
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter record producer dancer
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Works
- FKA Twigs discography
- Years active
- 2004–present
- Labels
- Young XL Atlantic
- Website
- fkatwigsofficial .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 17 January 1988), known professionally as FKA Twigs, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, and dancer. She was a backup dancer for numerous musicians, and made her musical debut with EP1 (2012). Barnett's debut studio album, LP1 (2014), reached number 16 on the UK Albums Chart and number 30 on the US Billboard 200. It was nominated for that year's Mercury Prize. She then released the EP M3LL155X (2015).
Barnett took a four-year hiatus before releasing her second studio album, Magdalene (2019). After signing with Atlantic Records, she released the mixtape Caprisongs (2022). Her third and fourth studio albums, Eusexua and Eusexua: Afterglow, were released in 2025. At the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, Eusexua received the award for Best Dance/Electronic Album. Her work has garnered critical acclaim and has been described as "genre-bending", drawing on various genres including electronic music, trip hop, R&B, hyperpop, and the avant-garde.
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