Lucy Rose

Lucy Rose Parton (born 20 June 1989) is an English singer-songwriter.

Her career as a musician began in 2012 with her first studio album Like I Used To and she has released four more records since, with her fifth studio album due out in April 2024.

Born in Camberley, Surrey, England, Rose's musical origins began with her playing drums in her school orchestra; her songwriting started with her writing tunes on her family home's piano.

She is the youngest of three sisters.

She later bought a guitar from a shop she passed on the way to school, taught herself and began writing material at around the age of sixteen.

Rose never played her material for anyone until she left home after completing her A-levels.

At eighteen, she moved to London; instead of taking her place at University College London to study geography, she began experimenting and performing with other musicians.

It was at this time when she met Jack Steadman, the frontman of Bombay Bicycle Club.

After becoming friends, Steadman asked if she would like to perform vocals on a song he had written and was recording.

The acoustic album Flaws came out with Steadman on lead vocals, and Rose performing backing vocals, most notably on the title track "Flaws", as well as others on the album.

She went on to perform some backing vocal duties on Bombay Bicycle Club's third album, A Different Kind of Fix, and features in their fourth, So Long, See You Tomorrow.

Rose also performs some backing vocal duties on the track This Sullen Welsh Heart by the Manic Street Preachers on their album Rewind the Film.

In 2012, Rose started recording her debut album Like I Used To, with producer Charlie Hugall at her parents' house in Warwickshire.

On 12 May 2012, she was signed to the record label Columbia Records.

The album was released on 24 September.

Vogue magazine stated that she was "one of indie music's breakout stars for 2012".

Her song, "Don't You Worry" appeared on the TV show Skins on the second episode of the sixth season.

"Be Alright" was featured in the finale episode of series five of The Vampire Diaries.

Rose then began touring the UK, the United States and Canada with Bombay Bicycle Club and Noah and the Whale in February and March 2012.

She played at the Live at Leeds festival in May 2012.

She played a set at the Bread & Rose's stage at Kent's Hop Farm Festival on 30 June, the same day as Bob Dylan.

She played at The Magic Loungeabout (Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire) in July 2012.

She also played at Latitude Festival in July 2012, Y Not Festival and Green Man Festival in August 2012, plus Bestival in September 2012.

She played Reading/Leeds Festival 2012, and performed an acoustic version of "Bikes", a single from the album, on BBC Three, during their coverage of the festival.

Rose headlined the main stage on Friday of Fieldview Festival near Chippenham, Wiltshire.

"Night Bus" appeared on the MTV reality TV show Catfish: The TV Show on the tenth episode of the first season.

Later in 2013, Sony Mobile chose Rose to perform the soundtrack of the official TV advertisement of Sony's Flagship mobile phone Sony Xperia Z1; the song "Movin' On Up" was composed and arranged by Gillespie/Young/Innes, courtesy of Columbia Records/Sony Music.

In 2014, "Shiver" was used as the opening theme for the second season of the anime series Mushishi.

In December 2013, Rose confirmed via Twitter that she had begun recording her second studio album, Work It Out, that was released on 13 July 2015.

In February 2015, "Shiver" was used as the closing song of Girls season 4 episode 5 starring Lena Dunham.

In May 2015, Rose announced that her second studio record, Work It Out, showed her "development as a person".

Her album was recorded in London's Snap Studios and produced by Rich Cooper, notable for his work alongside Mumford & Sons and Tom Odell.

In December 2015 Rose recorded three tracks for BBC Radio 1 at Maida Vale with Rae Morris.

A version of one of these covers, Shakin' Stevens' "Merry Christmas Everyone", was used a year later on the BBC's promotional video for their seasonal programming.

In the spring of 2016, Rose was inspired by the number of tweets and Spotify streams coming from Latin America and decided to give something back to her fans in those territories.

Rose offered a deal to her fans: "If you book me a gig, I'll come and stay."

For two months in 2016, Rose took her guitar and backpacked around Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Mexico, playing free shows and staying with fans.

While on this tour, she made a documentary, 'Something's Changing', of her experiences.

In 2018 she provided backing vocals for Paul Weller's fourteenth studio album True Meanings, and appeared on stage with him in 2019 for his Royal Festival Hall concert, Other Aspects.

A fan of tea, Rose began selling her own blend named "Builder Grey" (two part English Breakfast and one part Earl Grey) at her shows as a substitute for merchandise or CDs.