Everyone needs to check out Imogen Heap, She's absolutely reeking with musical talent. Here is some information I found out about her.

Born Imogen Jane Heap on December 9, 1977 in Essex England she grew up playing music from an early age, including the piano, cello and clarinet. By the age of eleven she had begun to write songs, and by seventeen she signed her first record contract with Almo Sounds. Heap's parents separated when she was twelve, and she went to a boarding school. There Heap clashed with her music teacher, and found the school lacking in students wishing to pursue music. Her teacher's idea of punishment was to leave Heap alone to learn for herself, teaching herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production on Atari computers. Following this, Heap went on to study at the Brit Music school. Heap's debut album, i Megaphone (an anagram of "Imogen Heap") was released in 1998 internationally via Almo Sounds, and garnered critical acclaim. The album was a mixture of self-penned, and self-produced tracks. Almo Sounds cut funding for the UK promotional tour, and gave Heap a deadline to deliver songs for her second album; upon delivering those songs she was told that they lacked "hit potential." Almo Sounds then announced that the record label had been sold to Universal and would be shut down and disbanded, with its repertoire of artists moving or leaving the label. Heap was one of the artists who was dropped from the label, leaving her without a record contract.

Heap then paired up with friend and co-producer Guy Sigsworth, and together they wrote and produced the album "Flicks." Later the duo released "Frou Frou," which saw a resurgence in popularity when the track "Let Go" was featured in the movie Garden State. In 2002 Heap and Sigsworth released and album called Details, but after the promotional tour were told that their record label, Island Records, would not be signing another contract for a second album. They offered Heap the option of signing as a solo artist, but she declined.

In December 2003, Heap announced on her web site that she was going to write and produce her second solo album. Heap set herself a deadline of one year to make the album, booking a session to master the album exactly one year ahead in December 2004. She re-mortgaged her flat to fund production costs, including renting a studio and purchasing instruments. During the year, demo versions of tracks were played on US radio station, KCRW, who had also supported the Frou Frou record. At the end of 2004, with the album completed, Heap premiered two album tracks online, enabling fans to purchase them prior to the album's release - "Just For Now" and "Goodnight And Go," which had been featured on the second season of The O.C. In April 2005, The O.C. featured another track, the sparse vocodered-vocal track, "Hide And Seek". Due to her bad experiences with record labels in the past, Heap made a decision to put out the album on her own in the UK, starting her own record company, entitled Megaphonic Records. The album, entitled Speak For Yourself - as Heap had produced, written and done 'everything in between' on the record, including designing the artwork. It was released in the UK on July 18th 2005 on CD and iTunes UK, where it entered the top 10 chart.

In concert, Heap is a one-woman band, controlling the sound through her Apple Powerbook laptop, as well as singing and playing the piano and mbira. She also performed the album's second single, "Goodnight And Go" on The Late Show with David Letterman and both "Hide And Seek" and "Goodnight And Go" on Last Call With Carson Daily. When she returned from the USA, having sold over 120,000 copies, she announced tour dates for the UK, where she played to crowds as big as 2000.