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Martina Topley-Bird
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Biography
Martina Topley-Bird (born 7 May 1975, St. Pancras, London) is an English vocalist and songwriter who first gained fame as the featured female vocalist on trip hop pioneer Tricky's debut album, Maxinquaye (a printing error credited her as "Martine"). She worked with him on his follow-up albums and, in 2003, released her own solo album, Quixotic. Biography: Martina Topley-Bird is the daughter of well-known British direct marketing specialist, Drayton Bird, and her mother is Salvadoran, Seminole Indian and the rest is untraceable African American. Her first contact with public performance was as a choir singer at Clifton College. It was while she was a teenager at the school that she met trip hop pioneer Tricky, with whom she worked on his first album Maxinquaye. She continued her collaboration with Tricky on his follow-up albums Nearly God, Pre-Millennium Tension and Angels with Dirty Faces.She gave birth to Tricky's daughter around the release of Maxinquaye. Following a falling-out...
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Discography
- Quixotic, 2003
- Anything, 2004
- The Blue God, 2008
- Some Place Simple, 2010
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Recently Played on Dig Music.
| Song | Soul Food |
| Artist | Martina Topley-Bird |
| Album | Quixotic |
| Label | Independente/Sony |
| Year | 2003 |
| Song | Too Tough To Die |
| Artist | Martina Topley-Bird |
| Album | Quixotic |
| Label | Independente/Sony |
| Year | 2003 |
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- YouTube Martina Topley Bird Lying Festival Fnac Indtendances 3:43
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Links
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On the ABC
- Big Brother Is Listening, Fear of a Brown Planet | The Doctor ...
- Deep End - 24 September 2003 - Music Played
- Massive Attack explain Martina Topley-Bird collaboration ...
- Sound Quality - 24/10/2003: #43 24 10 2003
- DIG Internet Radio - News - The Late Elliott Smith On New Jon ...
- Radio National Summer Favourites Music
- Deep End - 28 October 2003 - Music Played
- Deep End - 15 September 2003 - Music Played
- triple j music specials: Tricky
- Radio National The Deep End
Elsewhere on the Web
- Martina Topley-Bird on Yahoo! Music
- Martina Topley-Bird Biography - Yahoo! Music
- MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD (music artist) - music, MP3s, songs ...
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Comments
Stylish voice. Need to hear more. Hope the material is worthy of her voice.
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