At the age of 17, Polly Jean P.J." Harvey, who was raised on a small sheep farm in Corscombe, Dorset, finished school and began writing her own songs.
She contributed saxophone, guitar, and backing vocals to her earliest Somerset bands Bologna, the Polekats, and the Stoned Weaklings, but it was with Bristol's Automatic Dlamini where she gained extensive experience playing in a band.
She formed her self-named band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver (later replaced with Steve Vaughan.) The trio released their first album Dry in 1992. Ellis and Vaughan left the band after the release of Rid of Me in 1993 and Harvey continued as a solo artist.
Among the accolades she has received have been the 2001 Mercury Music Prize, seven BRIT Award nominations, five Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Music Prize nominations.
Rolling Stone named her 1992's Best New Artist and Best Singer Songwriter and 1995's Artist of the Year, and placed two of her albums (Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love) on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. She was also rated the number one female rock artist by Q magazine in a 2002 reader poll.
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