Lady June

June Campbell Cramer ( born June 3, 1931 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England; † June 7, 1999 in Deia, Mallorca, Spain ), better known as Lady June, was an English painter, poet and musician. She stood in connection to the Canterbury scene, recorded two albums and joined at their performances often her paintings, poetry and music to multimedia events.

Biography

The daughter of a Scottish- Russian couple, her father was a fashion retailer, initially grew in Plymouth on in a strict religious environment. Your youth spent Lady June - the title was only part of her stage name, she was not noble - in Mallorca. In the 1950s she worked as a model, first in London, then in Palma.

In Mallorca, they plunged into the current art scene. Among the musicians and artists with whom she met, was Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth whose wife was her best friend. With the Frenchman Michel Albert, a psychedelic painter, she met the love of her life know. She moved to Deia and also began to paint.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s lived Lady June in London, where she was home -coming artists in their homes and parties organized, which gave the underground culture boost. At one of these parties Birthday Gilli Smyth 1973 Robert Wyatt fell from the window and broke his spine.

In the 1970s, Lady June began with their multimedia performances. She had, among other performances at the International Carnival of Experimental Sound and at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1974 their first album Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy, on which she recited her poems, accompanied with music by Brian Eno, and Kevin Ayers.

In 1975, his Lady June back to Deia, where she remained active as an artist. The mid-1990s, she had a mild stroke. In 1996 their second album Hit and Myth. She died in 1999 while working on their third album rebela.