Early life
Raised in Nefyn on the LlÅ·n Peninsula in North Wales, with her twin sister, Katy, and older sister Kelly, Aimee Duffy's parents divorced when she was 10, and she moved to Pembrokeshire with her mother and sisters. She dropped her first name at the age of 19, calling herself Duffy professionally and personally.
Duffy's early interest in singing was apparently inspired by her father John Duffy's videotape of the 1960s television rock show Ready Steady Go! - she says she grew up without a record collection of her own. Duffy started singing at age 6 and at that age carried around a notebook in which she scribbled lyrics. She was booted from her school choir because her voice was "too big; I didn't fit in".
Duffy was put in a safe house in 1998 when police uncovered a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay a hitman £3000 to kill her stepfather, identified as Philip Smith. Her stepfather's ex-wife served a 3 1/2 year jail term for the incident. A 1998 article in another Bri
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Early Life
Raised in Nefyn on the LlÅ·n Peninsula in North Wales, with her twin sister, Katy, and older sister Kelly, Aimee Duffy's parents divorced when she was 10, and she moved to Pembrokeshire read more...
Early Career
After finishing her GCSEs in Pembrokeshire, Duffy returned to Nefyn when she was 15, and started singing in various local bands. Following an unsuccessful music project in Switzerland, read more...
Breakthrough
Contracted to A&M Records during 2007, on 23 November 2007, together with another rising star, Adele, Duffy was the most prominent of the so-called "new Amys" (a reference to read more...
Rockferry
Butler and his musical partner David McAlmont, and a number of other musicians have formed the backbone of Duffy's band for her debut album entitled Rockferry, which was released read more...
Aimee Anne Duffy (born 23 June 1984 in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales), known professionally as Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter.
read more...At the June 2008 MOJO Awards Duffy claimed that while walking past Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten after picking up an award she said "Hi" to him and he reacted by pinning read more...