Nerina Natasha Georgina Pallot (born 26 April 1974)[1][2] is a British singer, songwriter and producer, who has released eight albums and over a dozen EPs.

Pallot was born in London and brought up in Jersey by a half-French father and a mother from Prayag, India, together with her sister.

She has identified seeing singer and pianist Kate Bush perform her hit song "This Woman's Work" on television series Wogan as a catalyst for her to pursue a music career.

Her then-manager Richard Ogden noted that his company spent "three years managing her while she had a huge record deal and was a massive priority for Polydor.

After the initial tracks were finished the rest of the record was apparently completed by Willing and Pallot flying back and forth from London to Los Angeles.

In April 2007, the song was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, while she toured around the UK and Ireland in January and February of that year.

Pallot worked with several big name co-writers in preparation for the follow-up to Fires, including Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful") and Rob Davis (Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head").

She also wrote an album's worth of material with Rick Nowels (Madonna's "Power of Goodbye", Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is A Place on Earth").

In July 2010, Pallot returned to Geffen Records and to the A&R that first signed her to Polydor while embarking on an eight-day tour around the UK and Ireland.

The album includes the track "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", which takes its title from Carson McCullers' debut novel of 1940 - and which Pallot herself has described as 'the best song I have ever written'.

Her first video for "Patience", directed by Swedish director Emma Hvengaard, features Pallot in various scenes, notably wearing white and barefoot, continually floating to and from earth.

Pallot's next performance, "Learning to Breathe", is more "abstract" and is computer-generated with her playing the guitar in a house with many pictures decorating the walls.

The video for "Put Your Hands Up", the lead single from Year of the Wolf, was shot in and around Lant Street in Southwark, London.

Pallot met fellow Jersey resident and Grammy Award-nominated record producer Andy Chatterley in January 2007.

[14] In 2010, she revealed that she was a member of the Labour Party, but expressed disillusionment with the leadership of Gordon Brown and accused former Prime Minister Tony Blair of war crimes.