Club Fans Smile Allen

ESPAÑOL Lily nació en Hammersmith, al oeste de Londres, hija del comediante Keith Allen y de la productora de cine Alison Owen. Tiene una hermana mayor, Sarah y dos hermanos menores, Alfie y Rebeca. También tiene medios hermanos. En 1988, apareció en "The Yob" de "The Comic Strip Presents", co-escrito por su padre. Cuando tenía 4 años, su padre abandonó a la familia. Creció con su madre en distintos lugares con niños de su misma edad. Asistió a 13 escuelas distintas y fue expulsada de la mayoría de ellas por fumar y beber. Allen dijo a Loveline que a los 11 años estaba cantando una canción de Oasis en el patio del colegio cuando un profesor la escuchó y le dijo que tenía talento y le propuso hacer algo con él. Lily tomó lecciones de canto con el maestro y cantó en una obra escolar. Alegó que la audiencia se alegró ante la visión de una niña con problemas haciendo algo bueno. En ese momento ella supo que la música era algo que necesitaba hacer, ya sea como una vocación para toda la vida o para lo que fuera. Se convirtió en un miembro del Groucho Club a los 17 años y en su tiempo libre, escuchaba a artistas como The Specials, T. Rex, y Happy Mondays y también leía. Allen hizo una aparición en el film de 1998 Elizabeth, producido por su madre. Dejó la escuela a los 15 años, no quería "pasar un tercio de su vida trabajando para preparar el otro tercio". Después de que su familia se fue a Ibiza de vacaciones, donde le dijo a su madre que dormiría con amigos, pero permaneció en Sant Antoni de Portmany (San Antonio Abad), lugar donde ganó dinero trabajando en una tienda y en el comercio de éxtasis. ENGLISH Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London, daughter of Welsh-born comedian Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. She and her family eventually settled in the North London borough of Islington. She has an older sister, Sarah; a younger brother, Alfie Owen-Allen (who was the subject of her song "Alfie"); and a younger sister Rebecca. She also has a number of half-siblings. Lily Allen lived for a while with comedian Harry Enfield while her mother dated him. She is the goddaughter of Wild Colonials vocalist Angela McCluskey and is also the goddaughter of late Clash singer and guitarist, Joe Strummer. In 1988, Allen appeared on The Comic Strip Presents... episode "The Yob", which her father had co-written. When Allen was four years old, her father left the family. Allen claims to have grown up with her mother in a working class environment, living in a council house environment for most of her childhood. This certainly seems at odds with the fact that she attended some of England's costliest public schools; Allen attended 13 schools in all, including Prince Charles's junior alma mater, Hill House School and Bedales School, and was expelled from several of them for drinking, smoking and performing fellatio. Allen told Loveline that at age 11 she was singing an Oasis tune in the schoolyard when a teacher overheard her and told her she had talent and suggested she do something with it. She took singing lessons with the teacher. She sang at a school play and claimed that the audience was brought to tears at the sight of a troubled young girl doing something good. At that point Allen said she knew that music was something she needed to do either as a lifelong vocation or to get it out of her system. She became a member of the Groucho Club at the age of 17 and in her free time, she listened to artists such as The Specials, T.Rex, and Happy Mondays and read. Allen made an appearance as a lady-in-waiting in the 1998 film Elizabeth, produced by her mother. She dropped out of school at age fifteen, not wanting to "spend a third of her life preparing to work for the next third of her life, to set herself up with a pension for the next third of her life." After her family went to Ibiza on vacation, Allen told her mother that she was staying with friends but remained in Sant Antoni de Portmany instead. She earned money by working at a Plastic Fantastic record store and dealing in ecstasy. Allen's vocals appeared on the single "Who Invented Fish & Chips?" by Fat Les, in which her father was the lead singer of the band.

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