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Bat for Lashes is the stage name of Natasha Khan (born 25 October

1979), a Brighton-based songwriter.
Born to the eminent Pakistani family of squash-playing Khans, her early

life was spent travelling the world, though she spent part of her

childhood in Pakistan. She had a strict religious upbringing until her

parents separated, when she was eleven years old.
Khan graduated in film and music; while at university her experimental

work was influenced by artists such as Steve Reich and Susan Hiller,

and she produced multi-media work centred on sound installations,

animations and performance. She went on to work as a nursery-school

teacher, and it was during this period that she began writing the

material for her first album.