Laura Marling

Her work has earned major recognition. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in 2011 and received nominations in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. Four of her albums have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, and two were nominated for Grammy Awards in the Best Folk Album category. Beyond her solo output, Marling has also released two albums as part of the folktronica duo Lump.

Her songwriting often explores themes like sex and relationships, psychoanalysis, loss, modern womanhood, and trauma. Critics have consistently praised her albums, and she is widely seen as one of the most accomplished songwriters in the British nu folk scene. Away from music, Marling completed a master's degree in psychoanalysis in 2024 and is a full-time stay-at-home mother. In a 2024 interview with The Times, she described the five-album record deal she signed as a teenager as "dreadful," noting that neither she nor her daughter own the rights to her first five albums, which she called "devastating." Her boyfriend runs a charcuterie restaurant in East London. She was previously vegan but became a vegetarian in 2024.