About Florence Welch
Florence Leontine Mary Welch is an English singer and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The band's debut studio album, Lungs (2009), topped the UK Albums Chart and won the Brit Award for Best British Album. Their next five albums also achieved chart success. In 2018, Welch released a book titled Useless Magic, a collection of lyrics and poems written by her, along with illustrations. In Florence and the Machine's 2018 single "Hunger", she opened up for the first time about an eating disorder she had as a teenager. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot Is A Machine', before realizing that name was so long it'd drive me mad". In 2007, Welch recorded with a band named Ashok, who released an album titled Plans on the Filthy Lucre/About Records label.
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