Florence Welch

About

Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986) is an English singer. 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.

Florence Leontine Mary Welch was born on 28 August 1986 in Camberwell, London, England, to Nick Russell Welch, an advertising executive and Evelyn Welch (née Samuels), an academic originally from the United States. Through her mother, Welch has both British and American citizenship. Her maternal grandfather was lawyer and coal magnate John S. Samuels III. Florence was raised as a Catholic.
Welch is the niece of satirist Craig Brown via Brown’s wife and Welch’s aunt, Frances Welch, and granddaughter of Colin Welch, former deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph and former Daily Mail parliamentary sketchwriter. Welch’s maternal uncle is actor and filmmaker John Stockwell. She has a younger sister…