Beth Gibbons

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Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965, in Exeter, Devon, England) is the vocalist for the trip-hop band Portishead.

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[edit] Career

She met bandmate Geoff Barrow in a government business start-up scheme. Barrow and Gibbons joined jazz guitarist Adrian Utley, and the sessioners John Baggott, Jim Barr and Clive Deamer to record two successful and critically praised Portishead albums. Admired by artists as diverse as Dr. Dre and Robert Plant, the latter used Gibbons's musical associates in his own projects.

Gibbons has also collaborated on a separate project with Paul Webb, aka Rustin' Man. In October 2002, the album, Out of Season, was released in the UK, and in October 2003 it was released in the U.S.

Her Piafesque singing (partly due to her heavy smoking habit) makes her especially popular in France. [citation needed]

"Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity." —Beth Gibbons.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Portishead

[edit] Solo

[edit] Other Works

  • "Orang" in .O.rang's album Herd of Instinct (1994)
  • "Jalap" in .O.rang's album Fields and Waves (1996)
  • "Lonely Carousel" in Rodrigo Leao's album Cinema
  • "Strange Melody" in Jane Birkin's album Rendez-Vous
  • "Killing Time" in Joss Stone's Mind, Body & Soul
  • "Stranger In This Land" in Fried's album Fried
  • She also has contributed writing the score for the French film L'Annulaire, in which she contributed a song also entitled "L'Annulaire". It was not officially released.

[edit] External links

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