Gay-Yee Westerhoff

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Gay-Yee Westerhoff, from Hull, Yorkshire in England, is the Chinese-English cellist of the all female string quartet bond and holds an Honours Degree in music from Trinity College of Music in London. Gay-Yee has performed with groups including Primal Scream, Spice Girls, Talvin Singh, Embrace, Sting, Bryan Adams, Barry Manilow and Vanessa-Mae.

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• Star Sign: Gemini

• Favourite Color: Red

• Favourite Animal: Unicorn

• Favourite Film: Altered States

• Favourite Music: She was a Big Freak performed by Betty Davis (Miles Davis's ex-wife)

• She was born on June 14th, 1974 in Hull, England.

• Her father is half-German, half-English and her mother is Chinese.

• She was a musician for Vanessa Mae's band, where she was nicknamed "Gay-Yee 'Ships Ahoy' Westerhoff".

• Gay-Yee plays cello, bass guitar and piano.

• She has written many pieces, including "Kismet" and "I'll Fly Away".

• Westerhoff provided vocals for "Wintersun", "Viva!", "Fly Robin Fly", "Samba" and "Hungarian".