External links
- Tiger Hutchence-Geldof at IMDb
- Tiger Hutchence-Geldof discography at Discogs
Tiger Hutchence-Geldof | |
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| Born | Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence 22 July 1996 London, England |
| Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Works | Tragic Tiger's Sad Meltdown (2022) |
| Spouse | Ben Archer (m. 2025) |
| Children | 1 |
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Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence-Geldof [1] [2] (born 22 July 1996), known professionally as Tiger Hutchence-Geldof [a] (formerly Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof, Tiger Lily Hutchence-Geldof and Heavenly), is an English-Australian [3] singer-songwriter and art psychotherapist. She is the daughter of Australian singer-songwriter Michael Hutchence and British TV presenter Paula Yates. After her parents died when she was a young child, she was legally adopted and raised alongside her three half-sisters by her mother's former husband, Irish singer-songwriter and activist Bob Geldof. She made her stage debut as a singer in 2020 and released her debut album, Tragic Tiger's Sad Meltdown, in 2022.
Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence-Geldof [2] [1] (née Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence [4] [5] ) was born in London, England, on 22 July 1996, [4] to Michael Hutchence, the Australian lead singer of rock band INXS, and British TV presenter Paula Yates. [6] [7] She was born at home in the bathroom and her father helped with the delivery. [4] [8] Her half-sister Pixie chose the name "Heavenly"; [6] Hutchence chose the name "Hiraani" [6] after a family friend, [9] it also being his favourite Polynesian word, meaning "Princess of the beautiful sky"; [4] and Yates chose the name "Tiger Lily". [6] Her parents called her "Tiger" and "Tiger Lily". [2] [10]
When she was one year old, her father died by suicide in Sydney, Australia, on 22 November 1997. [11] [12] After Hutchence's death, Yates suffered from depression and drug addiction, and fought against Hutchence's family, who wanted to take custody of their daughter. [6] Her mother died of a drug overdose on 17 September 2000. [13] Yates's body was discovered in the presence of Hutchence-Geldof, who was then four years old and was alone with her mother when she died. [14]
The day after Yates's death, her ex-husband, Irish singer-songwriter and activist Bob Geldof, was granted temporary custody of Hutchence-Geldof so that she could be brought up with her three older half-sisters, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie. [15] Hutchence's sister, Tina, also applied for custody of Hutchence-Geldof soon after Yates's death, [16] but the judge rejected her counter-application to bring Hutchence-Geldof to live with her in California. [17]
On 14 December 2000, Geldof was awarded full custody of Hutchence-Geldof, and she remained in London with him and her older half-sisters. [17] Her paternal grandfather, Kell Hutchence, who had tried to gain temporary custody of Hutchence-Geldof in 1998 when Yates was being treated for depression at a clinic in London, supported the court's decision. [18] In 2007, she was adopted by Geldof, [19] [20] [21] who legally changed her surname, despite opposition from Hutchence's mother and sister. [22] In 2008, her full legal name became Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof. [23] [7] As of 2022, [b] her full legal name is Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence-Geldof. [1]
When she turned 18, she moved from London to New York to escape the spotlight on the Geldof family and to study drama. [24] [25] She postponed her acting studies following the death of her half-sister Peaches in 2014, under similar circumstances to their mother's death. [26]
In 2019, she graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London, [7] with a psychology degree. [2]
In 2015, Hutchence-Geldof appeared in the film The Rise of the Krays and was credited as Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof. [27]
In 2016, she made her modeling debut for a charity cause for a Fairtrade-registered shirt factory in Southern India. [26] She also worked as a photographer for the online fashion magazine Hunger. [24]
She started using the name Tiger Hutchence-Geldof circa 2019. [28]
In March 2020, she released on Bandcamp a 3-track EP titled Tragic Tiger's Sad Meltdown under the name "Heavenly". [3] [29] [30]
In September 2020, she made her stage debut at the East Perth venue Barbes, where she performed original, melancholic alt-folk songs under the stage name "Heavenly". [31]
In February 2022, she released her debut album, Tragic Tiger's Sad Meltdown, which features songs written after the 2014 death of her half-sister, Peaches Geldof. She recorded the album in Fremantle, Australia and released it under the name "Heavenly". [32] [33]
From April to May 2025, she held an art exhibition at the Big Yin Gallery in London under the name Tiger Hutchence-Geldof alongside Lily Gutierrez titled I Want More. [34] [35] [36] On the gallery's website, she was described as "a musician and art psychotherapist". [37]
Australian singer Nick Cave is her godfather. [38]
After graduating from university in 2019, Hutchence-Geldof moved to Fremantle in Western Australia where she lived with her then-boyfriend, Australian musician Nick Allbrook, with whom she was in a relationship from 2017 to 2022. [1] [28] [39] [40] She moved back to the UK in 2023. [41] [42]
Hutchence-Geldof started dating British film director and model Ben Archer in 2023. They married on 12 April 2025 in London while Hutchence-Geldof was pregnant with the couple's first child, [38] born a few months later. [42]
Michael Hutchence's 1999 posthumous self-titled solo album was dedicated to her. [43]
INXS's 2006 single "God's Top Ten" was written by Andrew Farriss as a tribute to Hutchence and a gift for his daughter. [44] [45]
She was mentioned in the 2014 Australian biographical miniseries INXS: Never Tear Us Apart . [46] [47]
the English-Aussie released her album Tragic Tiger's Sad Meltdown in 2020 which she recorded in Fremantle
I thought back to when Michael was trying to come up with a name for his little Tiger Lily. His favourite was Hiraani, after a family friend. That was the name he chose.
he had been dating Tiger Hutchence-Geldof since mid-2017
The album was dedicated to Hutchence's daughter Tiger Lily
