Bat for Lashes于1979年10月25日出生于巴基斯坦,直到成年Bat for Lashes才脱离这个宗教色彩浓厚的国度开始自己的环球旅行,最后落脚于欧洲进行深造并开始创作自己的音乐.在Bat for Lashes的音乐中你可以轻易找到宗教色彩的音乐元素,整盘专集都在轻轻的舒缓的唱着,你甚至可以想像的到Bat for Lashes唱歌时轻闭双眼演唱的摸样,似乎在表达着某种只有她自己能看到的境界.没有刻意去营造某种冷酷,一切都只是淡淡的,轻轻的,极强的穿透力就这样抓紧你的听觉神经而使你不想再去做其他事情! 　　Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released four studio albums, Fur and Gold (2006), Two Suns (2009), The Haunted Man (2012) and The Bride (2016), receiving Mercury Prize nominations for Fur and Gold, Two Suns and The Bride. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey. 　　Khan was born to an English mother, Josie, and Pakistani father, squash player Rehmat Khan. A member of the Khan family, she is the granddaughter of squash player Nasrullah Khan and the niece of squash players Jahangir Khan and Torsam Khan, and the stepdaughter of singer and actress Salma Agha and half-sister of actress Sasha Agha. The family moved to Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, when she was five years old. She attended many of her father's and her uncle Jahangir's squash matches, which she felt inspired her creativity: "The roar of the crowd is intense; it is ceremonial, ritualistic, I feel like the banner got passed to me but I carried it on in a creative way. It is a similar thing, the need to thrive on heightened communal experience." After her father left the family when Khan was 11, she taught herself to play the piano, which became "a channel to express things, to get them out". 　　Khan was subject to racial abuse during secondary school for being Pakistani, played truant, and was suspended after swearing and throwing a chair at a teacher. She told The Daily Telegraph: "I was an outsider at school. When I came back from being suspended they had told the small group of friends that I did have there that they weren't allowed to talk to me because I was a really bad influence. Then it got quite lonely." After completing her GCSEs and A-Levels, Khan took a job in a card-packing factory where she would work while listening to songs she had made. She said: "My internal imaginary life was really fruitful at that time. I remember packing cards and just listening to songs that I had made the night before on my mini-disc player. All day long just listening and dreaming, while counting the cards to be packed." With money saved from the job, she embarked on a three-month road trip through the United States and Mexico. 　　After returning to the UK, Khan settled in Brighton in 2000 to study music and visual arts at the University of Brighton where she produced sound installations, animations and performances influenced by artists including Steve Reich and Susan Hiller. After finishing her degree, Khan completed an NVQ in play work and childcare, and worked as a nursery school teacher, dedicating her spare time to developing songs, recording demos and gigging in Brighton.