Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn ( born September 26, 1962 in Brookmans Park, England ) is a British singer and songwriter. Best known she was a singer of the duo Everything but the Girl, along with her boyfriend and later husband Ben Watt. She grew up in Hatfield ( Hertfordshire, England) and studied English at the University of Hull.
Tracey Thorn began her career in the group " Marine Girls" that she and her schoolmate Gina Hartman founded in 1980 and in 1983 broke up again. Then she released a solo mini-album, A Distant Shore, which was published in 1985 by the label animalized in Germany. Repeatedly collaborated with Massive Attack: A first for the Title Protection and Better Things from the album Protection, then among other things, for the soundtrack to Batman Forever: The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game.
She also sang for The Style Council, The Go- Betweens, Working Week, Lloyd Cole and 2005 for deep black. The song Damage is her first recording since 2002.
In March 2007, her second solo album Out of the Woods was released by Virgin. After the first single from the album It's All True Raise the Roof followed in June, the Grand Canyon in October and as the fourth single cover version of the Pet Shop Boys title King's Cross in December 2007.
In 2010 she published with Love And Its Opposite her third solo album, this time with a distinct return to her musical roots in the 1980s, which is more acoustic and less electronic music.
In October 2012, the album Christmas Tinsel and Lights, for which it has in addition to two original compositions included a number of Christmas songs by other authors followed.
Discography
Albums
- A Distant Shore (1985 )
- Out of the Woods ( 2007)
- Love and Its Opposite (2010)
- Tinsel and Lights (2012 )