Gordon Sharp (born, 1961 in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, musician and producer who has led several music projects over the last 33 years.
Sharp started a punk band called The Freeze whilst attending Linlithgow Academy in 1976. The Freeze were active between 1976 and 1981. Sharp moved to London in 1982, changed the band's name to Cindytalk and signed to Midnight Music.[1] In 1983 Sharp sang with fellow Scots Cocteau Twins on one of their John Peel sessions and at selected live gigs, where he met 4AD executive Ivo Watts-Russell. This led to him being invited to participate as one of the featured singers with 4AD ambient collective This Mortal Coil.[2]
Sharp has gained a reputation for an unflinchingly experimental approach to music and ideas. He has often turned down more commercial offers whilst continuing to carve out a unique musical niche for Cindytalk.
Early in his career, Sharp was repeatedly asked by John Taylor of Duran Duran to join the latter's Birmingham based new romantic band after having met Taylor and Nick Rhodes at a London concert held by David Sylvian's band, Japan, which Sharp had travelled from Scotland to attend. Sharp briefly stayed at Nick Rhodes' parents house in Birmingham during Duran Duran's early rehearsals, but decided on his journey back to Scotland that Duran Duran's ambitions did not sit well with his own direction.
In 2002 Sharp started to write abstract electronic music using a laptop. Vienna based record label, Editions Mego, which is known for releasing cutting edge electronic music, will be releasing three of Sharp's primitive noise-poetry albums towards the end of 2009 and into 2010. No longer perceived only as a singer, this will help to reposition Sharp and Cindytalk within the musical establishment.