In January 2015 Billie Marten signed to Chess Club Records, a division of Sony Music and their RCA Records recording label.

She described her music in December 2014 as 'a mix between acoustic and quite folky and a little indie.' In August 2014 Marten played the BBC Introducing stage at the Reading Festival. According to Marten, one theme of 'Ribbon' is 'the elusiveness of the city, and how quickly you can lose something amongst the people and tube stations.' In June 2014 she released her debut EP Ribbon. She wrote the single with Fiona Bevan the previous year. In May 2014, just before her fifteenth birthday, Billie Marten released the single 'Ribbon' via Burberry's curation program. I was super young and it was crazy.' She was educated at Ripon Grammar School. In a later interview Marten said 'I didn't understand how quickly it could spread. Among the songs she performed was a cover version of Lucy Rose's 'Middle of the Bed', which quickly received thousands of views. When she was twelve she performed some music sessions for a local YouTube channel called Ont' Sofa.

By the age of nine she had her own YouTube channel on which she posted covers of pop songs, mostly for the benefit of her grandparents who live in France. She began playing guitar and singing when she was seven or eight, and started writing songs soon afterwards. Isabella (or 'Billie') Tweddle was born in Ripon in North Yorkshire.

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