![]() She won both the under-18s category and the Grand Prize, against 10,000 other competitors. In 2008, as a 12-year-old, Birdy won the UK talent contest Open Mic UK, a spin-off of the Live and Unsigned competition. Other members of the public call her O'Doyle. ![]() Her whole family calls her Birdy while friends, especially at school, call her Jasmine, her given name. Her stage name comes from her nickname her parents gave her as a baby because she opened her mouth like a little bird when fed. She has English, Belgian (Flemish), and Dutch ancestry. Her great uncle was the actor Sir Dirk Bogarde. Birdy currently studies at Brockenhurst College in Brockenhurst, a sixth form college in the New Forest she sings and plays the piano. Her mother is a concert pianist, and Birdy learned to play piano at the age of seven, and began writing her own music at the age of eight. ![]() ![]() Birdy was born on, in Lymington, Hampshire. ![]()
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