(Marina and the Diamonds  

(Marina and the Diamonds

Marina Lambrini Diamandis was born on 10 October 1985 in Brynmawr and grew up near Abergavenny. She has one elder sister. Her Welsh mother and Greek father met at Newcastle University and separated when Diamandis was four years old. Following the separation, her father returned to Greece but would occasionally visit, while she remained in a bungalow in Wales with her mother; she described her childhood as "simple and idyllic" and "peaceful, very normal, poor". Diamandis admitted to being a "tomboy" as a child, playing football every day and spending more time with the opposite gender. As a child, Diamandis attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. She said, "I sort of found my talent there... I was the one who always skived off the choir, but I had an incredible music teacher who managed to convince me I could do anything."At the age of 16, she moved to Greece with her father "to connect with [her] heritage and learn to speak the language", and sang Greek folk songs with her grandmother.Having earned an International Baccalaureate at St. Catherine's British Embassy School in Athens, she returned to Wales two years later.She and her mother then moved to England, settling in Ross-on-Wye.Obsessed with becoming a singer "almost as if it was a disease", she worked at a petrol station for two months in order to earn money to move to London. Despite not having a musical background, Diamandis had a childhood love of writing. She first began writing music when she was 18 years old; she moved to London to attend dance school but quit after two months.She studied music at the University of East London and transferred to a classic composition course in Middlesex University the following year, but dropped out after two months.

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