Charlie Deakin Davies
British musician
Charlie Helen Deakin Davies (born 9 June 1995) is a British musician from Walkern. They have released multiple EPs including Green under the name DIDI and Dog Bowl under the name Charlieeeee. They have also co-written the Gary Barlow song "Let's Get Drunk" and the Ellie Dixon song "Swing", the Kate Dimbleby album Songbirds and the compilation album The F Spot Femme Fatales, directed the Piri & Tommy tour Froge.tour, and supported China Crisis. They joined Loud LDN in August 2024.
Life and career
Early life, The Folk, and Delora
Charlie Helen Deakin Davies was born on 9 June 1995 in Walkern, and attended Freman College. They got into music after being given an electric guitar by their father aged ten; around this time, they formed a band which played funk, indie, and grunge music, which they were in for around five years. Aged fifteen, they formed the Folk, a band composed of lead singer Lucy Holmes, ukulele player Rose Goodship, and violinist Sam Saward, for which Deakin Davies played guitar; all four spent time busking in Hertford, during which time they were spotted by Martin Lumsden of Cream Room, a recording studio in Dane End in Hertfordshire which closed in 2021. The band released a single, "When It Rains", and then an EP.
Deakin Davies, Holmes, Goodship, and Saward later attended Freman College, with Deakin Davies studying music technology at AS-level and dropping out after a year. Saward later left the Folk; the remaining members later changed their name to Delora, after discovering the word while googling at 3am and discovering a Latin word that meant "by the seashore", and released a single, "Come Alive", inspired by the sensation of being cheered up by music. They later released an EP, Superglue, and then another single, "Sober", by which time Goodship had also left.
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