中文名：Aldous Harding 国籍：新西兰 职业：歌手、词曲作者 生日：1990年 简介：Hannah Harding (born 1990), known professionally as Aldous Harding, is a New Zealand folk singer-songwriter. She has been represented by independent record labels Flying Nun Records and Spunk Records. 4AD announced Aldous Harding as a new signing in early 2017 just prior to the release of her second album. Harding comes from a musical family: her mother is folk singer Lorina Harding, and she was discovered while busking on a street by fellow musician Anika Moa. She has also collaborated with many musicians including Marlon Williams, John Parish, Mike Hadreas and Fenne Lily. Her album Party was nominated for IMPALA's European Album of the Year Award. 从艺历程：Kiwi singer/songwriter Hannah Harding, better known by her nom deplume Aldous Harding, first drew praise for the gothic indie folk andstarkemotionalityof her 2015 debut that brought about comparisonsto both Kate Bush and Scott Walker. Later outings like Party(2017)Designer (2019), and Warm Chris (2022) adopted a more off-kilterindie pop approach that evoked names like Cate Le Bon and Nico Harding grew up in the town of Lyttelton near Christchurch in NewZealand to musician parents.Her mother was folk singer LorinaHarding, and it was on her Tui Farm Folk Festival-winning record CleanBreak that the 13-year-old Harding made her recording debut. Despitethis early forayinto the music business, the young Harding had nointerest in pursuing a career as a musician, believing it to be aprecarious existence.Just a couple years later, she began to let go ofher dreams of becoming a vet when she started singing and writingsongs alongside friend and fellow musician Nadia Reid. By 2008, shewas performing backup vocals for the traveling string band theEastern, and she got an early break when she was spotted busking byAnika Moa, who, on the basis ofthat performance, invited the youngmusician to open for her at her show that same night. In 2012, Harding changed her first name to Aldous and asked MarlonWilliams and Ben Edwards to co-produce what would become herdebut record.The self-titled release garnered much critical acclaimand Harding toured extensively behind the album. For her follow-upshe signed to British independent label 4AD, and enlisted the help ofJohn Parish (Sparklehorse, PJ Harvey) to co-produce the record. Hersophomore album, Party, arrived in 2017 and was nominated for Albumofthe Year at the New Zealand Music Awards. After completing a 100-date tour in support of the LP, Harding headed back into the studiowith Party producerJohn Parish to begin laying down tracks for herthird full-length effort.The resulting Designer was released in April2019 and included the APRA Music Award-winning single "The Barrel.Two years later, Harding returned with the ebullient track"Old Peel"and in early 2022 she issued"Lawn" and"Fever," thelead singles fromher fourth full-length effort, Warm Chris, which appeared later thatMarch,The LP included contributions from H, Hawkline, Seb Rochford.Gavin Fitzjohn,John and Hopey Parish, and Jason Williamson (SleafordMods).