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Biography
BLP sources|date=November 2010Infobox musical artist | name = Tracey Thorn| image =Tracey_Thorn.jpg| caption =| image_size = 125| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Tracey Anne Thorn| alias =| Born = birth date and age|1962|9|26|df=yes, Brookmans Park , Hatfield, Hertfordshire , England, United Kingdom| death_date =| origin =| instrument = Human voice|Vocalist | genre = Pop music|Pop Folk music|Folk Electronica|Electronic House music|House | occupation = Singer-songwriter | years_active = 1982–present| label = Cherry Red Records 1980–1983 Blanco Y Negro 1983-1994
Virgin Records 1995-2007
Strange Feeling 2010-
Merge Records 2010- | associated_acts = Everything but the Girl Marine Girls | website = http://www.traceythorn.com/ traceythorn.com| current_members = | notable_instruments = Tracey Anne Thorn (born 26 September 1962) is an English Pop music|pop singer and songwriter . She is best known as being one half of the duet (music)|duo Everything but the Girl , who are currently on extended hiatus.
Personal life
Thorn was born in Brookmans Park , Hatfield, Hertfordshire . She grew up in Hatfield and studied English at the University of Hull , where she graduated in 1984 with First Class Honours.
After 28 years as a couple, Thorn married her partner Ben Watt in 2009 at Chelsea Registry Office. http://www.salon.com/ent/music/int/1999/09/28/everything/index.html Salon.com They live in Hampstead , North London.cite web|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/things_to_do/newsid_8595000/8595499.stm |title=BBC - Pop singer Tracey Thorn on the best and worst of London life |publisher=BBC News |date=30 March 2010 |accessdate=13 January 2012 The couple have twin daughters born in 1998 and a son born in 2001.
Thorn will release her autobiography in early 2013.cite web|url= http://www.thebookseller.com/news/virago-signs-everything-memoir.html |title=Virago signs Everything But the memoir |publisher=The Bookseller |date= |accessdate=13 January 2012
Career
Stern Bops (1979–1980)
Thorn began her musical career in the punk-pop hybrid group Stern Bops playing guitar and providing some vocal backing.
Marine Girls (1980–1983)
Thorn then joined Marine Girls playing guitar and sharing vocals. The band released two albums ( Beach Party in 1981 and Lazy Ways in 1982) and several singles. The group disbanded when Thorn decided to concentrate on her studies at Hull, and on Everything but the Girl .
Everything But the Girl (1982–2000)
Thorn met Ben Watt at the University of Hull where they were both students, and both signed as solo artists to Cherry Red Records . Their first album together was Eden , released in 1984. Everything But The Girl released a body of work that spanned two decades. Their biggest chart success came in 1995, when DJ Todd Terry remix ed a song from their Amplified Heart album. " Missing (Everything but the Girl song)|Missing " became a huge hit all over the world, especially in the U.S., where it reached number two in the Billboard Hot 100 .
Everything But The Girl have been on extended hiatus since 2000, while Ben Watt has concentrated on his DJ work, and Thorn has been a full-time parent and, most recently, writing and recording her solo material.
They released compilation albums in 2002 and 2005, and Watt has played on some filmed performances of Thorn's solo work and on her 2011 recording of the xx 's Night Time.cite web|last=Battan |first=Carrie |url= http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44341-listen-everything-but-the-girl-reunite-to-cover-the-xxs-night-time/ |title=Listen: Everything But the Girl Reunite to Cover the xx's "Night Time" & #124; News |publisher=Pitchfork |date=18 October 2011 |accessdate=13 January 2012
Solo career and collaborations
Thorn's first solo (music)|solo work was a mini- album entitled A Distant Shore (1982). A re-recorded version of the track " Plain Sailing (song)|Plain Sailing " was released as a single, and was included on the Pillows & Prayers Cherry Red records compilation album.
In the 1980s, Thorn contributed guest vocals and backing vocals for The Style Council on the track "Paris Match" (from the album Café Bleu ), The Go-Betweens on their track Head Full of Steam , Working Week (band)|Working Week on the single "Venceremos (We Will Win)", Lloyd Cole and the Commotions on the track "Big Snake", and Adam F on "The Tree Knows Everything", from Colours .
In the 1990s, she collaborated with Massive Attack on several projects, including the soundtrack for the film|motion picture Batman Forever where she contributed with " The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game ". Their first project together was the song " Protection (Massive Attack song)|Protection " from the album by Massive Attack of the same name. She also sings on the track "Better Things".
Just prior to her return to recording in 2007, Thorn contributed vocals to the song " Damage (Tiefschwarz song)|Damage " by the band Tiefschwarz on the album Eat Books .
In March 2007, Tracey Thorn released her second solo album Out of the Woods on Virgin Records (Worldwide) and on Astralwerks (USA). Thorn cited her peers Terry Hall (singer)|Terry Hall and Siouxsie Sioux in the song "Hands Up To The Ceiling". The record includes contributions from Cagedbaby , Ewan Pearson , Charles Webster (musician)|Charles Webster , Sasse (musician)|Sasse , Darshan Jesrani , Vector Lovers|Martin Wheeler and Alex Santos . Thorn's MySpace page includes several mixes of the single and the music video .
The first single from the album, " It's All True (song)|It's All True ", accompanied by remixes from the likes of Kris Menace & Martin Buttrich, was released on 7 February and the second single, " Raise the Roof (Tracey Thorn song)|Raise the Roof " was released on 18 June. The third single, " Grand Canyon (song)|Grand Canyon " was released on 30 October. A fourth single, " King's Cross (song)|King's Cross " (which is a cover version of a Pet Shop Boys song) was released on 12 December.
In 2008, Thorn collaborated with the Hungarian acoustic downtempo group The Unbending Trees on their single "Overture", which also featured on their album Chemically Happy (Is The New Sad) , published by her partner and husband Ben Watt .
In 2009, Thorn collaborated with the Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman for a cover of The Magnetic Fields ' "Yeah& #33; Oh Yeah!" for a compilation album commemorating twenty years of Merge Records , Score& #33; 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! .
Thorn's third solo album Love and Its Opposite was released in May 2010 on Ben Watt's Strange Feeling Records in the UK, and on Merge Records in the US. Recorded in London and Berlin and produced by Ewan Pearson , it contains eight new songs and two cover versions, "Come On Home To Me" by Lee Hazlewood , and "You Are A Lover" by The Unbending Trees .
Thorn is currently recording a Christmas album as of February 2012. The album is expected later in the same year.
Discography
Studio albums
Year
Album details
Peak chart positions
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1982
A Distant Shore
Released: September 1982
Label: Cherry Red
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2007
Out of the Woods
Released: 5 March 2007
Label: Virgin Records|Virgin / Astralwerks
38
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44
172
2010
Love and Its Opposite
Released: 17 May 2010
Label: Strange Feeling/ Merge Records|Merge
51
16
22
144
EPs
2010& nbsp;– Opposites EP (contains experimental remix es of tracks from Love and Its Opposite )
2011& nbsp;– You Are A Lover EP (10" green vinyl released for Record Store Day)
Score& #33; 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!
2010
"Without Me" with Tevo Howard
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.traceythorn.com/ Official Tracey Thorn website
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