Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp performing at the Wireless Festival in June 2006
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genre(s)	Electropop Electronica Synthpop Ambient
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	1994–present
Label(s)	Mute Records
Associated acts	Goldfrapp
Website	www.goldfrapp.com

Alison Goldfrapp is an English singer-songwriter. Goldfrapp was born in Enfield, London and raised in Alton, Hampshire, the youngest of six children. At age 19, Goldfrapp moved to Belgium to work as a singer for a theatrical composer. Upon her return to England, Goldfrapp attended Middlesex University's School Of Art, where she studied Fine Art. It was at Middlesex that she was discovered by Orbital during a now infamous show in which she milked a cow while yodelling.

After acquiring her degree from Middlesex, Goldfrapp toured internationally with British rapper Tricky, appearing on his album Maxinquaye. Her mainstream success began after her collaboration with film composer Will Gregory.

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

Age

Alison is famously reluctant to reveal her true age, although speculation has put her date of birth as early as 1960 or as late as 1971. Her birthday is thought to be May 13. In a 2006 interview with Q Magazine, she said she was 37. In an interview on TRL UK in 2005, Alison said she was born in the Chinese year of the horse. 1966 and 1978 both fell upon the year of the horse (It is very unlikely that it is 1978 as she appeared in "Your Night Tonight" in 1988, when she appeared to be in her 20s; if she was born in 1978 this would mean that she would have been 10 when the film was made).

Trivia

• Alison sung the harmony vocals on Paul Castle's TV theme song for Jane Hissey's "Old Bear Stories", a Kids TV series originally on ITV, but now occasionally on Channel 5.
• Alison is credited as contributing to the Add N To X album Avant Hard. Although any specific track is not mentioned, it is most likely to be the vocals on 'Revenge of the Black Regent' and the song 'Oh Yeah, Oh No'.

Sources

• Interview from Q, issue 231, October 2005

• Old Bear Stories TV Theme Song

External links

• Goldfrapp.co.uk – official website.
• Alison Goldfrapp at Discogs
• Alison Goldfrapp at MusicBrainz
• Goldfrapp at All Music Guide
• Alison Goldfrapp at the Internet Movie Database