Person in history
Arlo Parks
Arlo Parks, British singer-songwriter
Life at a glance
- Born
- 2000 · August 9
- Age this year
- 26No death recorded in our data
- Known as
- singer-songwriter, poet, director, and singer. Citizenship: United Kingdom
- Born
- 26th anniversary of their birth this year
Their story
Who they were
Personal life Parks is bisexual and is based in Los Angeles . [ 1 ] Parks began dating the singer Ashnikko in December 2021. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They split in 2024, [ 4 ] with Ashnikko referencing the breakup in her debut performance of her song "Itty Bitty" while opening for Billie Eilish in December 2024. [ 5 ] ^ "Arlo Parks says cancelling string of concerts was 'really difficult decision' " . 30 April 2023. ^ "ashnikko on Instagram: "1 year with my love.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho, known professionally as Arlo Parks, is an English singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, was released in 2021 to critical acclaim and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. It won the 2021 Mercury Prize for Best Album and earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards.
Early life
Early life Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho [ 1 ] was born on 9 August 2000, and raised in Hammersmith , West London . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is of half Nigerian , quarter Chadian and quarter French ancestry. [ 4 ] Her mother was born in Paris. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Marinho learned to speak French before she learned English. [ 7 ] She was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and completed her A Levels in early 2019 at Ashbourne College . [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
Path and career
Awards / honours: Mercury Prize and Libera Award for Best Breakthrough Artist.
Career Parks performing in 2022 at Somerset House 2018–2019: Super Sad Generation and Sophie Parks chose her stage name as a distinctive personal pseudonym, inspired by King Krule and Frank Ocean . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2018, she began uploading demos to BBC Music Introducing . This caught the attention of radio presenters across the UK who distributed these demos to Ali Raymond of Beatnik Creative, who soon began managing Parks. [ 3 ]
Why this date
Arlo Parks appears on our August 9 calendar for 2000 as a birth entry.
The world when they were born
Other entries we record for 2000.
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- January 31Alaska Airlines Flight 261
- October 7Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- May 4Ken Livingstone
- September 14Microsoft
Born the same day
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Sources
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Questions about Arlo Parks
When was Arlo Parks born?
August 9 2000.
How old would Arlo Parks be today?
26 this year, based on the birth year we hold. We have no death record for them in our data, which is not proof either way.
Who else was born on August 9?
Stuart McInally, İshak Doğan, Alexa Bliss and others — the list is on this page and on the date page.
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