In 2009, Birdy performed live on piano for BBC Radio 3's Pianothon in London. She performed her own song, called "So Be Free", at the competition in front of 2,000 people. She won both the under-18s category and the Grand Prize, against 10,000 other competitors. In 2008, while still a 12-year-old pupil at Durlston Court Prep School, Birdy won the UK talent contest Open Mic UK, a spinoff of the Live and Unsigned competition. īirdy's stage name comes from the nickname her parents gave her as a baby, because she opened her mouth like a little bird when being fed. īirdy's second given name, Lucilla, was the name of her father's stepmother. She has English, Belgian (Flemish), Dutch and Scottish ancestry. Her great-uncle was the actor Sir Dirk Bogarde. Her maternal grandfather was Captain John Christopher Ingram Roper-Curzon, the 20th Baron Teynham, and she grew up on the family estate near Lymington, Hampshire. īirdy studied at Durlston Court Prep School in Barton on Sea, at Priestlands School, and at Brockenhurst College, a sixth form college in the New Forest. She also has two elder half-brothers, Moses and Sam, from her father's first marriage. Her parents were married in 1995 and have two other children: Jake, born in 1997, and Caitlin in 1999. She stated that listening to classical music and the songs her mother played has been a big influence on her sound.
Birdy learned to play the piano at the age of seven, and began writing her own music at the age of eight. Her father is Rupert Oliver Benjamin van den Bogaerde, a writer (including of Daybreak Into Darkness under the name Rupert Bogarde) her mother is Sophie Patricia (née Roper-Curzon), a concert pianist. Birdy was born on, in Lymington, England, United Kingdom.
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