Birdy’s quiet, but she isn’t fragile: On our cross-continental call one early August evening, the singer/songwriter makes this clear to me. Throughout our conversation, the 27-year-old musician—aka ...

A good book can make your day. A great book can make your third full-length studio album. "I was just really inspired by it," she said. "I've never actually been to Japan but I think it's the way the ...

Thanks to many years studying music, Birdy's songwriting is as sophisticated as ever, but in some ways, the 19-year-old singer says she approaches sounds and lyrics the same way she did when she was a ...

It only takes a few moments of speaking to Birdy before you realise where the nickname came from. Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde, to give her full title, has an unassuming, ...

Birdy’s Young Heart pulses with a familiar sorrow. Battered and bruised, the towering 16-track record, her first in five years, carries a faint whisper of Joni Mitchell’s transcendent Blue. Birdy ...