Arlo Parks
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho[1] (born 9 August 2000),[2][3] 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 earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards. It won the 2021 Mercury Prize for Best Album.
Arlo Parks
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho
9 August 2000
London, England
Singer, songwriter
2018–present
- Beatnik
- Transgressive
Early life[edit]
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho[4] was born on 9 August 2000, and raised in Hammersmith, West London.[5][6] She was educated at Latymer Upper School.[7] She is of half Nigerian, quarter Chadian and quarter French ancestry.[8] Her mother was born in Paris.[9][10] Marinho learned to speak French before she learned English.[11]
Personal life[edit]
Parks is openly bisexual and is based in Los Angeles.[58] She was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and completed her A Levels in early 2019 at Ashbourne College.[59][60][61] In the autobiographical text on her Spotify profile, Parks claimed that she spent most of secondary school "feeling like that black kid who couldn't dance for shit, listening to too much emo music and crushing on some girl in her Spanish class."[62] Parks's partner is the singer Ashnikko.[63]
Parks has named Elliott Smith, Sylvia Plath, Radiohead and Joni Mitchell as among her influences.[64][65]