Miquette Giraudy

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Miquette Giraudy is a keyboard player best known for her work in Gong and with her partner Steve Hillage. She and Hillage currently form the core of ambient band System 7.

[edit] Gong

Already Hillage's girlfriend, Giraudy joined him in Gong as a vocalist in March 1974, replacing Diane Stewart-Bond, who had replaced Gilli Smyth the previous year. Smyth returned to Gong for part of 1974, with Giraudy coming back to the band in July. Hillage and Giraudy left the band together at the end of 1975.

Giraudy appears on one track of the studio album Shamal (1976) and four tracks of Gong Live Etc. (1977). She is also on the archival release, Live at Sherwood Forest 75 (2005).

[edit] Hillage solo albums

Giraudy appears on all of Hillage's solo albums. She played percussion as well as singing on his first two, Fish Rising (1975) and L (1976), but it was with 1977's Motivation Radio that she started taking on a more significant role, playing keyboards and co-writing material, as she did on several subsequent albums.

Although released under Hillage's name, Rainbow Dome Musick (1979), a seminal early ambient album, consisted of two sides, side A written and largely performed by Giraudy and side B written and largely performed by Hillage.