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Lady Gaga - 'Paparazzi'

BBC - Found Jul. 1, 2009
... at best and didn't really understand why everyone was hailing her as the second coming of Alison Goldfrapp, but then 'Poker Face' appeared and...
Gaga's Yoda leads buyout of Usen - Variety
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Lady Gaga Inspires Andy Murray - MaleFirst Mens Magazine
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Posted on July 1, 2009, 4:20 am

The Rokettes

Music-News - Found Jun. 27, 2009
The rough edge of her voice has all the best trappings of Patti Smith and she can put over emotion like a cross between Pink and Alison Goldfrapp.

Posted on June 27, 2009, 12:13 pm

Indie Rock's Bewitching New Siren

Daily Beast - Found May. 7, 2009
... of new female artists trying to capitalize on an outrageous fashion sense- Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Alison Goldfrapp-or an aura of innate witchy...

Posted on May 7, 2009, 4:45 am

Immodesty Blaize: Scandalous life

The Independent - Found May. 29, 2009
Since she first appeared in 2003, dancing in Alison Goldfrapp music videos and knocking several million MTV viewers dead, she has extended her...

Posted on May 29, 2009, 6:21 am

Immodesty Blaize: Sex, scandal and naked ambition

The Independent - Found May. 29, 2009
Since she first appeared in 2003, dancing in Alison Goldfrapp music videos and knocking several million MTV viewers dead, she has extended her...

Posted on May 29, 2009, 5:44 am

Immodesty Blaize: Sex, scandal and naked ambition

The Independent - Found May. 29, 2009
Since she first appeared in 2003, dancing in Alison Goldfrapp music videos and knocking several million MTV viewers dead, she has extended her...

Posted on May 29, 2009, 5:42 am

Immodesty Blaize: Sex, scandal and naked ambition

The Independent - Found May. 29, 2009
Since she first appeared in 2003, dancing in Alison Goldfrapp music videos and knocking several million MTV viewers dead, she has extended her...

Posted on May 29, 2009, 5:29 am

'Pop Idol snub made me tough'

The Sun - Found May. 28, 2009
... certain for Victoria, 25. The electro-pop of her debut album Hands has been compared to the likes of Alison Goldfrapp, Roisin Murphy and Kylie.

Posted on May 28, 2009, 3:00 am

Sweet dreams are made of this 1980s style with La Roux

The Times - Found May. 17, 2009
However, as with Alison Goldfrapp, all eyes are firmly fixed on Jackson. And what an accomplished performance she can give.

Posted on May 17, 2009, 6:53 am

Best CDs of 2008

London Evening Standard - Found May. 14, 2009
GOLDFRAPP Seventh Tree (Mute) Having out-Kylied Kylie on its predecessor, Supernature, the fourth album by professional vamp Alison Goldfrapp...

Posted on May 14, 2009, 3:57 am

Alison Goldfrapp Biography

Alison Goldfrapp
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Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp performing at the Wireless Festival in June 2006
Alison Goldfrapp performing at the Wireless Festival in June 2006
Background information
Born 13 May 1966 (1966-05-13) (age 43)
Enfield, London
Origin England
Genre(s) Electropop
Electronica
Synthpop
Ambient
Folktronica
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter
Voice type(s) Soprano
Years active 1988–present
Label(s) Mute Records
Associated acts Goldfrapp
Website www.goldfrapp.com

Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp1 (born 13 May 1966) is an English singer-songwriter with the duo Goldfrapp.

Goldfrapp was born in Enfield 2, London, the youngest of six children. She was raised in Alton, Hampshire where she went to Alton College. At age 19, she moved to Belgium to work as a singer for a theatrical composer and on her return to England, attended Middlesex University's School Of Art, where she studied Fine Art.

After acquiring her degree from Middlesex, Goldfrapp toured internationally with British rapper Tricky, appearing on his album Maxinquaye. Her mainstream success began when she started collaborating with film composer Will Gregory under the name Goldfrapp.

Goldfrapp (with cropped peroxide blonde hair) made an early acting appearance in Your Night Tonight, the 1988 graduation film of colleague Paul Gilbert.

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Work outside of Goldfrapp

  • Goldfrapp sang the harmony vocals on Paul Castle's theme song for Jane Hissey's Old Bear Stories, a children's TV series originally on ITV, but later seen on Five.
  • She is credited as contributing to the Add N to (X) album Avant Hard. Although no specific track is mentioned on the album credits, the sleeve for the single "Revenge of the Black Regent" credits her as vocalist. She also sang vocals on "Total All Out Water" from Loud Like Nature.
  • Her earliest studio recordings are with the band Dreadzone on the 1993 album 360°.
  • Goldfrapp provided vocals for several of Orbital's albums, including the single "Are We Here?" featured on Snivilisation and the single "Belfast".
  • She also recorded the lead vocal track for "Pumpkin," a Smashing Pumpkins-sampling track on Tricky's 1995 album Maxinquaye.
  • She provided additional vocals on the Peter Gabriel soundtrack album OVO
  • Goldfrapp sang vocals on the track "Bodo" on the soundtrack for The Princess and the Warrior.
  • Goldfrapp also sang vocals on 3 songs on Spacer's Sensory Man released in 1997 and 3 songs on Juryman's the Hill, released in 2000.

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