Initially, she had intended to take a year out from her studies to "see where the music would go and then it started going somewhere so never went back".
Upon leaving secondary school and "just bumming around Camberwell where I lived, working at a bar and thought that I should start doing something with life", Welch studied at Camberwell College of Arts before dropping out to focus on her music. I was shy and sensitive, and so reading gave me a safe space." Music and books gave her a reprieve from what she felt made her different from others. ĭespite an early love of reading and literature, she was also diagnosed with mild dyslexia due to problems with spelling, alongside dyspraxia, a developmental coordination disorder that does not affect her reading ability, but caused issues with organization. However, Welch often got in trouble in school for impromptu singing and for singing too loudly in the school's choir. Welch was educated at Thomas's London Day School, Battersea then went on to Alleyn's School, South East London, where she did well academically. "I learned ways to manage that terror – drink, drugs, controlling food." She has also spoken of being a highly imaginative and fearful child. In Florence and the Machine's 2018 single " Hunger", she opened up for the first time about a teenage eating disorder. Around this time, her maternal grandmother, who had bipolar disorder, died by suicide. Welch's parents divorced when she was thirteen, and her mother eventually married their next-door neighbour, Professor Peter Openshaw. Aged ten, she performed the song of Yum-Yum from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan at Colin Welch's memorial service. In her youth, Welch also sang at family weddings and funerals. Welch's deceased grandmothers inspired numerous songs on Florence and the Machine's debut album Lungs. ĭuring her youth, Welch was encouraged by her Scottish paternal grandmother, Cybil Welch (née Russell), to pursue her performing and singing talents.
She also has a sister, Grace, who inspired Welch’s song by the same name. Welch's maternal uncle is actor and director John Stockwell. Welch is the niece of satirist Craig Brown via Brown's wife and Welch's aunt, Frances Welch, and granddaughter of Colin Welch (James Colin Ross Welch), former deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph and former Daily Mail parliamentary sketchwriter, originally of Cambridgeshire. Through her mother, Welch has both British and American citizenship. Evelyn is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Provost, and Senior Vice President (Arts & Sciences) at King's College London and incoming Vice Chancellor at the University of Bristol. 2.2 2011–12: Ceremonials and solo endeavoursįlorence Leontine Mary Welch was born in Camberwell, London on 28 August 1986 to parents Nick Russell Welch, an advertising executive and Evelyn Welch (née Samuels), an American immigrant from New York City who was educated at Harvard University and the Warburg Institute, University of London.2.1 2006–2010: Florence and the Machine and Lungs.
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