Name: Aimée Ann DuffyAge: 27 (born 23rd June, 1984)Height: 5' 2" (approx.)Eye color: BlueNationality: WelshBest known for: Her solo singing career. Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold.Links:Mini biography:Duffy was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, and brought up in Nefyn on the Llŷn Peninsula, in Gwynedd, Wales, with her twin sister, Katy Ann, and older sister Kelly; she would later write songs about both sisters. She grew up speaking Welsh as her mother tongue but soon learned English as well. Duffy’s parents divorced when she was 10 and she moved to Pembrokeshire with her mother and sisters.
Duffy attended Ysgol Nefyn, on the Llyn Peninsula and Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, as a child.
In September 1998, at the age of 13, Duffy was briefly put in a police safe house when authorities uncovered a plot by her stepfather’s ex-wife to pay an assassin £3000 to kill her stepfather, identified as Philip Smith. Smith’s ex-wife, Dawn Watson, was sentenced to a 3½-year jail term for soliciting to murder. “I was so terrified. I felt so ill,” Duffy recounted in 2008, as reported by the NME and The Sun. A 1998 article in the Daily Mirror, another British tabloid, quotes a man identified as Philip Smith describing similar circumstances, though the stepdaughter’s name is spelled Aimy — not Aimée — and the surname Duffy is not mentioned. 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 breakup the following three years were a rebellious period that included binge drinking and stealing a rowboat.
Duffy’s early introduction to soul music and inspiration to get into the music industry occurred while watching Whoopi Goldberg’s performance in the movie Sister Act. It is known that Duffy did not hold a large record collection in her youth, instead being inspired by her father’s videotapes of the 1960s television rock show, Ready Steady Go! Duffy was interested in music from an early age, beginning to sing at age 6, carrying a notebook that she filled with scribbled lyrics. Despite this, she was later asked to leave her school choir because her voice was “too big” and she “didn’t fit in.”
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