Birdy

Birdy’s ability to distill the pure emotion of a song—whether it’s someone else’s or her own—is her most magnetic quality.

This rare trait was evident from the start when, at 14 years old, the British vocalist covered Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love,” stripping down the already bare-bones ballad to its most fragile core.

At the time of its release, the young Birdy—born Jasmine van den Bogaerde in 1996 in Lymington, England—had been playing piano half her life and already proven her vocal prowess as the winner of the Open Mic UK talent competition at age 12.