Uffie

Anna-Catherine Hartley (born December 9, 1987), known professionally as Uffie , is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ, and fashion designer formerly signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with her labelmates and friends, such as Feadz, Quentin Dupieux(Mr. Oizo), and SebastiAn, as well as producer Mirwais. Uffie was born in Miami, Florida, to a Japanese mother and an English father. She moved to Hong Kong with her family at the age of four, where she spent her formative years. According to Hartley, Uffie is a nickname her father gave her, and comes from the French word "oeuf", which means "egg". During her teens, Uffie moved with her mother to Fort Lauderdale and then back to Miami where she was arrested for vandalism at the age of 15, causing her mother to send her to live with her father in Paris. Uffie studied fashion in Paris and attended the International School of Paris. In 2005 Uffie booked DJ Feadz for a party she was organizing, and the two began a relationship shortly after. Feadz constantly pressured Uffie to provide vocals for some of his tracks and finally in late 2005 Uffie wrote "Pop the Glock" while on holiday and released it as a Myspace demo. Record label Arcade Mode gave the song a limited promo release in January 2006 with the B-side "Ready to Uff" which Feadz's labelmate Quentin Dupieux produced. Soon after the release Uffie was signed to the French electronic music label Ed Banger Records by Busy P. Uffie then began dating graffiti artist and photographer André Saraiva, and the two were married in August 2008. The couple divorced in the summer of 2009, before the birth of their daughter Henrietta in October 2009. She took a brief hiatus from work, which gave her time to find herself and mature as an artist and finish her full-length debut album, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans. By 2013 she had retired from music.