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Duffy

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Born 23 June 1984.

Welsh female soul singer-songwriter

Duffy is a performance name for the person Aimée Anne Duffy.

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Biography

Aimée Ann Duffy (born 23 June 1984), better known by her stage name Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold. The album was certified several times Platinum and sold over 6 million copies worldwide, spawning the hits "Mercy" and "Warwick Avenue". With "Mercy", Duffy became the first Welsh female in 25 years to achieve number-one on the UK Singles Chart.

In 2008, she won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry, and she was nominated for two other Grammy awards. In 2009 she won three BRIT Awards, British Breakthrough, Best Female Solo and Best British Album.

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  1. Warwick Avenue
    BBC Radio 2 | Wake Up to Wogan 07/12/2009
     
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