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Noughties indie icon reveals she’s retired from touring at 34 as she joins TikTok to show off ‘new life’
Laura Marling first started performing her music when she was 16
LAURA Marling has opened up about her new approach on her music career.
The singer released her first album when she was just 18 years old.
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Since then she's studied a masters degree in psychoanalysis, trained as a yoga teacher and has welcomed a daughter into the world.
The Ghosts singer, who was a huge hit throughout the early 2000s, announced that she wouldn't be touring anymore.
Taking to TikTok, which she called her "favourite social media" she said that she's had to re-think how she creates music.
"So I'm going to explain very briefly why I'm on TikTok because in the comments people seem quite shocked to see me here," she told fans in a video.
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"But I prefer TikTok to all other social media because I think it gives really amazing perspectives from really different people's lives.
"And I found it incredibly beneficial in early motherhood to see other people doing like quirky things that I was doing in early motherhood that I found very reassuring.
"But also because I've been touring since I was 16 and I'm now 34 and now a mother, that's not the headlines of my existence.
"But I'm not going to be going on tour anymore and I still want to share music and I think this is the best was of doing that."
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Noughties indie icon reveals she’s retired from touring at 34 as she joins TikTok to show off ‘new life’
"I'm also starting a Substack which I'll keep people updated about. But I think it's amazing that I get to do TikTok and Substack and I look forward to telling you more."
Substack is a platform that allows writers and content creators to publish newsletters.
In May last year, she shared a snap of her with her daughter, revealing advice for fellow creatives.
"If you've ever been worried that your creativity will suffer if you have a baby - it won't," she wrote in the caption.
She also moved to LA to train to be a yoga teacher after struggling with the pressures of performing music following an album release.
"It [the album] actually took a strange toll on me, performing it every night for a year, like it was an incantation I was reliving each time - I toured it in a car, alone, mostly around America," she said.
"It was a real adventure. After it was done I felt like I would never be able to do it again. I moved to Los Angeles and trained as a yoga instructor - thinking, I guess that I wouldn’t be able to give anymore musically. I was, perhaps, being a tad dramatic."
"But listening to it again today, I get glimpses of what it felt like to be in that total flux of early adulthood. I’m glad I have it as a reminder of being completely lost with every possibility still ahead."
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Laura moved to London when she was 16 to pursue a career in music.
She released her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim in 2008 and won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in 2011.
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