- Born
- Birth nameCharlotte Emma Aitchison
- Nickname
- Charli
- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Born in Cambridge as Charlotte Emma Aitchison, Charli XCX is a singer, songwriter, model and actress. Daughter of a Scottish father and Indian mother, she studied at UCL's Slade School of Fine Art in London. Charlotte kept her MSN Messenger alias for her stage name and started writing songs at 14 years old. Her talent was spotted in 2008 after she shared on MySpace songs and demos from her first album that was recorded thanks to the financial help of her parents. She took a break from music in 2010. Aitchison contributed vocals and co-writing for numerous hit singles before debuting her studio album True Romance in 2013. International success followed quickly with a second studio album and several collaboration with other artists such as Iggy Azalea. In 2017, before releasing a new mixtape, she directed the music video of the lead single from her upcoming third studio album.- IMDb Mini Biography By: AX Up
- Curly hair
- Midriff clothing
- Leather jackets and sunglasses
- Platform heels
- Curvy figure
- Born to an Indian mother and a Scottish father.
- Her stage name was taken from her MSN Messenger screen name when she was much younger.
- She has Synesthesia which causes her to see music as colors.
- Has described Siouxsie Sioux from Siouxsie and The Banshees as her hero.
- Charli's influences include Britney Spears, Shampoo, No Doubt, t.A.T.u., The Donnas, Bikini Kill, Martika, The Cure, The Feminine Complex, Donna Summer, Bread, the Spice Girls, Uffie, Brooke Candy, Lil Wayne, Kate Bush, Twin Peaks, Paris Hilton, Justice, Crystal Castles, Calvin Harris, Björk, Quentin Tarantino and Siouxsie Sioux.
- [observation, 2014] I can see pop music changing into something I can really run. There's only a few more years left of the whole plastic, overproduced bad lyric, throwaway pop. It's dying out because audiences are clever. Artists are running their own careers now, and that means it has to come from them. It has to come from their brain.
- When I make my music, I'm looking to fulfill a very selfish need to just make what I want to hear. I'm really just in the moment with it, and I really just want to make songs that I want to hear in the club, and I want to make them in a very spontaneous way.
- [on her creative process] I just don't really like to think too much. For me, the second I start thinking about the decisions I'm making is when it begins to feel a bit contrived, and the songs just become not special.
- I feel like, as a creative person, especially if you're doing what you want to do for a living, no matter what area of creativity, it's like we are so lucky to be creative, because some people really try all their life to make their creative passion their actual job and don't succeed, even though they're probably extremely, extremely talented and deserve that. But some people just can't manage to do it for whatever reason.
- I don't feel pressure to be perfect or strong or whatever. I mean, I definitely am a strong person. But I think I have learned that what's best for me is I just want to feel my feelings. I think it's okay to be vulnerable.
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