Biography
Who is Paloma Faith?
Early life and background
Paloma Faith Blomfield was born on July 21, 1981, in the Hackney area of London. Her parents were an English mother and a Spanish father, both raised in Norfolk. Her parents separated when she was two years old and later divorced, after which she was raised by her mother in Stoke Newington.
As a child, she took ballet classes in Dalston and later completed her A-levels at City and Islington College. She studied contemporary dance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds and earned an MA in theatre directing from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Career beginnings and debut
Before finding mainstream success in music, Paloma worked in various jobs, including as a sales assistant at Agent Provocateur, a bartender, a life model, a magician's assistant, and a singer in a burlesque cabaret. While performing with her band Paloma and the Penetrators, she was scouted by an Epic Records representative.
She signed with the label and released her debut album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, in 2009. The record produced the UK top-twenty singles "Stone Cold Sober" and "New York" and eventually peaked at number nine on the UK Albums Chart.
Albums and chart success
Her second studio album, Fall to Grace, came out in 2012 and reached number two on the UK Albums Chart, featuring the top-ten single "Picking Up the Pieces". She followed this with her third album, A Perfect Contradiction, in 2014, which included the hit single "Only Love Can Hurt Like This". That same year, she collaborated with Sigma on the chart-topping single "Changing".
Her fourth album, The Architect, was released in 2017 and became her first number one album in the UK. She subsequently released the albums Infinite Things in 2020 and The Glorification of Sadness in 2024, both of which reached the top five in the UK charts.
Acting and television work
Alongside her music career, Paloma has worked extensively as an actress, appearing in films such as St Trinian's, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Dread, and Youth. She also played a role in the television series Pennyworth between 2019 and 2022.
She has taken on television coaching roles, serving as a coach on The Voice UK in 2016 and on its spin-off show The Voice Kids in 2020. In 2024, she published her memoir, MILF, and in 2025 she appeared as a contestant on the reality television series The Celebrity Traitors.
Birthday and age
Paloma Faith was born on July 21, 1981, which makes Paloma 45 years old today. That birthday falls under the Cancer sign. Paloma shares the date with 33 other famous people.
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