Beth Orton | OohYeah

Beth Orton is an award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist who plays folk and acoustic pop on albums like Comfort of Strangers and Sugaring Season.Born on December 14, 1970 in East Dereham, England, Beth Orton went on to collaborate with electronic music producer William Orbit before releasing her debut LP, Trailer Park, in 1996. Hailed for her "folktronic" sounds, Orton won a Brit Award and released several albums over the next decade, including Daybreaker. She started a family before releasing her fifth studio album, Sugaring Season.Elizabeth Caroline Orton was born on December 14, 1970 in East Dereham, part of Norfolk County, England. Orton developed a love of nature and enjoyed the rural beauty of her upbringing, though she moved to London at the age of 14, after her parents had split. Orton was also an avid book lover who enjoyed writing and for a time pursued theatrical work as an actress, not really thinking that she would be a good match for a music career.Both of Orton’s parents had died by the time she’d reached 19. She went off to Thailand to live in a Buddhist community for a time. There she explored concepts of solitude and self-reliance that would inform her later work.