Anne-Marie facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie performing in 2017
Born	Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 34) East Tilbury, Essex, England
Occupation	Singer songwriter
Years active	2013–present
Works	Discography
Spouse(s)	Slowthai ​ (m. 2022)​
Children	1
Musical career
Genres	Pop R&B dance-pop
Instruments	Vocals
Labels	Asylum Warner Music Atlantic

Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (born 7 April 1990) is an English singer and songwriter. She has attained various charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, including Clean Bandit's "Rockabye", which peaked at number one, as well as "Alarm", "Ciao Adios", "Friends", "2002", "Don't Play" and "Kiss My (Uh-Oh)". Her debut studio album, Speak Your Mind (2018), peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. Her next two studio albums, Therapy (2021) and Unhealthy (2023), both peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart.

Anne-Marie was nominated for four awards at the 2019 Brit Awards, including Best British Female Solo Artist. To date she has been nominated for ten Brit Awards and has also received a nomination for a Billboard Music Award and a Grammy Award. In 2015, she signed a record deal with Asylum Records and began releasing her work through the label. From 2021 to 2023, Anne-Marie appeared as a coach on the television singing competition The Voice UK.

Early life

Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson was born on 7 April 1990 in East Tilbury, Essex. While her mother is a local teacher, her father, a builder and handyman, is from the East End of London. She has an older sister named Samantha.

When she was five, Anne-Marie went to stage school. She appeared in two West End productions as a child: she auditioned for Les Misérables aged six, without telling her parents, and performed in Whistle Down the Wind with Jessie J when she was twelve.

Anne-Marie attended St Clere's School at Stanford-le-Hope, where she also involved herself in performing arts. Her initial popularity there ended when she was fourteen—she was shunned and bullied by her classmates after being accused of cheating on her boyfriend, when she had only spoken to another boy on the phone late at night. Anne-Marie also said she regrets being a difficult child—exacerbated by her grandmother's death when she was twelve—and was advised by Ed Sheeran to "call [her] mum and dad every day". She began filming herself singing in her room as a teenager. Anne-Marie went on to go to Palmer's College in Thurrock.

Anne-Marie is a black belt in Shotokan karate. She began taking lessons aged nine, and became a triple world champion, winning double gold in the Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Association World Championships in 2002, and further gold and silver in 2007; as well as gold in the United Kingdom Traditional Karate Federation National Championships. She credits karate with teaching her the "discipline and focus" necessary for her singing career, but tours have made it difficult for her to find time for the sport.

Career

2013–2015: Career beginnings and Karate

Anne-Marie performing with Rudimental at V Festival 2014

Anne-Marie was picked up by Rocket Music and released the demo "Summer Girl" in 2013. It attracted attention when Ed Sheeran linked to it on his Twitter account. A possible solo career was curtailed for her to develop herself as an artist. Guest appearances on songs by Magnetic Man, Gorgon City and Raized by Wolves drew Anne-Marie to the attention of the band Rudimental, and in 2014 they asked her to replace a vocalist who left the band.

Anne-Marie spent two years touring with Rudimental as a vocalist. She also featured on four tracks on their second album We the Generation (2015), including co-features with Dizzee Rascal and Will Heard, and "Rumour Mill", which reached number 67 on the UK Singles Chart and gave her enough confidence to go solo. She said that she was writing daily while touring.

Anne-Marie's debut extended play (EP), Karate EP, was released on June 10, 2015 under Rudimental's then-new label Major Tom's. Produced by Josh Record and Two Inch Records, it contained three tracks and a remix. Debut single "Karate" and "Gemini" led to Anne-Marie making her first solo live performances. The Guardian favorably reviewed "Boy" and opined that Karate "proves she's ready to step out alone". She released the single "Do It Right" in November, which peaked at number 90 on the UK Singles Chart and was certified platinum in Australia.

2016–2018: Speak Your Mind

Her debut album had the working title of Breathing Fire. On 20 May 2016, Anne-Marie released "Alarm", the first single from her debut album. It spent one week at number 76 in June before resurfacing a month later; it later peaked at number 16 and was certified Platinum in the UK. In October 2016, Anne-Marie was confirmed to play at the thirty-first edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen, Netherlands. On 10 October 2016, Anne-Marie featured on Illy's song "Catch 22". The same month, Clean Bandit released their song "Rockabye", with Anne-Marie as main vocalist and featuring Jamaican rapper Sean Paul. It spent nine consecutive weeks at number one and gained the coveted Christmas number one. The song has since been certified multi-platinum across most of Europe, North America and Oceania.

Anne-Marie performing at the SWR3 New Pop Festival in 2017

On 10 March 2017, Anne-Marie released "Ciao Adios", which she had previously performed live at KOKO on 28 November 2016. The single became a top 10 hit in the UK, charting at number nine and being certified double platinum by the BPI. In May 2017, Anne-Marie teamed up with Nick Jonas and Mike Posner on the single "Remember I Told You". ..... On 21 September Anne-Marie released "Heavy", followed by "Then" on 15 December. In 2018, Anne-Marie collaborated with Marshmello on "Friends". The song was released on 9 February 2018, and was Anne-Marie's second top five UK hit as a lead artist. On 22 February, Anne-Marie announced that her debut studio album, Speak Your Mind, would be released on 27 April 2018. Prior to the release of her album, Anne-Marie released the single "2002" on 20 April in response to constant urging by Ed Sheeran, the co-creator of the song. The song has been streamed more than 1.5 billion times on Spotify. In July 2018, Anne-Marie featured on a David Guetta song titled "Don't Leave Me Alone", which peaked at 18 on the UK Singles chart.

In November 2018, Anne-Marie released the single "Perfect To Me", which was a remixed and retitiled version of her song "Perfect" from her debut album. The same month, Anne-Marie and James Arthur recorded "Rewrite the Stars" from The Greatest Showman for the re-recording of its soundtrack, The Greatest Showman: Reimagined.

Anne-Marie in 2019

2019–2021: The Voice UK, single releases and Therapy

..... The single was released on 1 August. Anne-Marie released the song "Birthday" on 7 February 2020. On Mother's Day 2020, Anne-Marie released the song "Her". "To Be Young", was released on 17 July, featuring American rapper Doja Cat. On 28 August, Anne-Marie featured on the Rudimental song "Come Over". On 12 November, Anne-Marie released the single "Problems". On the same day, her documentary, How To Be Anne-Marie, was released on YouTube Originals. The documentary gives light to the fans and a closer look about her personal life and her "time away from the limelight". Her documentary also features fellow celebrities, including Little Mix.

On 2 January 2021, she made her first appearance as the newest coach for the tenth series of The Voice UK, replacing Meghan Trainor. A member of her team, Craig Eddie, won series 10, giving Anne-Marie her first win on her first series as a coach. Anne-Marie spent the next two years as the coach, with the twelfth series, aired in 2023, being her last.

On 15 January, Anne-Marie released the single "Don't Play" in collaboration with British YouTuber and rapper-singer KSI and English DJ and producer Digital Farm Animals as the lead single from her second studio album. Anne-Marie contributed vocals on the song "Way Too Long" in collaboration with Nathan Dawe and MoStack on 9 April. The same month, she teamed up with Singaporean singer JJ Lin on a song "Bedroom" from his EP, Like You Do. On 13 May, Anne-Marie announced the single "Our Song" with Niall Horan as the third single from her upcoming second studio album. The song was released on 21 May. On 12 July, Anne-Marie released the track "Beautiful". The music video for the song retold the life of the Syrian refugee and parathlete Dima Aktaa. On 23 July, Anne-Marie released the single "Kiss My (Uh-Oh)" as the fourth single, featuring Little Mix. On the same day her album Therapy was released.

On 30 September, Anne-Marie released her first book "You Deserve Better: An Imperfect Guide To Finding Your Own Happiness". The book was published by Orion Spring and was a Sunday Times bestseller. As of 8 February 2022, the book has sold over 10 000 copies. The Korean version of the book was published on 23 February 2022 and was the only official translation.

In November 2021 it was announced she would dance with Graziano Di Prima in the 2021 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special, which she went on to win.

2022–present: Unhealthy, features in other artists' songs

On 27 May 2022, Anne-Marie collaborated with Swedish DJ duo Neiked and American rapper Latto on the song "I Just Called". On 19 August, Anne-Marie appeared on the remix of Diljit Dosanjh's single "Peaches", while on 26 August, she featured in K-pop boy group Seventeen's new version of their song "_World". On 16 September, Anne-Marie released the single "Psycho", in collaboration with British rapper Aitch, as the lead single from her third studio album.

In an interview with FM104 regarding her third studio album, Anne-Marie explained that "I've been writing a lot of new stuff... and I feel like I've figured out what I want to say. I feel like from the first and second album I've learnt a lot about myself, and know this is now who I am."

..... On 9 March, Anne-Marie collaborated with Thai singer Minnie, a member of South Korean girl group (G)I-dle, on the song "Expectations". On 7 April, Anne-Marie teamed up with David Guetta and Coi Leray on the song "Baby Don't Hurt Me" which samples Haddaway's hit "What Is Love". On 27 April, Anne-Marie announced that her third album Unhealthy would be released on 28 July. The title track from the album, featuring Shania Twain, was released on 18 May 2023. On 5 July, Anne-Marie released "Trainwreck". On August 16, Anne-Marie collaborated with Haitian DJ Michaël Brun and American singer Becky G on the single "Coming Your Way". "Christmas Without You" was released exclusively on Amazon Music on 7 November as part of the soundtrack for Your Christmas or Mine 2. The same month, Anne-Marie earned her first Grammy nomination for the song Baby Don't Hurt Me.

Following the conclusion of the first leg of The Unhealthy Club Tour, Anne-Marie took a break from her career commitments for several months as she welcomed her first child in February 2024. In May, she teamed up with Nicholas Galitzine on the song "The Idea of You", which was featured on the soundtrack of the film of the same name. On 9 August, Anne-Marie released the single "Cry Baby" in collaboration with Clean Bandit and David Guetta.

Personal life

In 2018, Anne-Marie revealed that she is attracted to both men and women, but that she does not identify with the label bisexual. She said, "I just feel like I'm attracted to who I like."

Anne-Marie has been a vegetarian since 2018, however she stated that she will "try to eat vegan [food] as much as possible". On the Off Menu podcast she revealed that she suffers from emetophobia - a fear of vomiting - and that the vegetarian diet helps reduce her anxiety around food, as she fears getting sick from eating meat.

Anne-Marie has opened up about her struggle with anxiety. She said that therapy helped her "face her demons during lockdown". She also stated that she has ADHD, dyslexia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

In 2022, Anne-Marie started dating British rapper Slowthai. Their relationship, while mostly private, was confirmed by Slowthai in an interview with Rolling Stone in February 2023. The couple secretly married in July 2022 in Las Vegas. In February 2024, Anne-Marie gave birth to their daughter.

Discography

Studio albums

• Speak Your Mind (2018)
• Therapy (2021)
• Unhealthy (2023)

Filmography

Film

Tours

Headlining

• Speak Your Mind World Tour (2018–19)
• Dysfunctional Tour (2022)
• The Unhealthy Club Tour (2023–24)

Supporting

• ÷ Tour (Europe and North America legs) (2017–18)

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Anne-Marie para niños