Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965, in Exeter, Devon) is the vocalist for
the English
trip-hop
band Portishead.
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Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Discography
- 2.1 Portishead
- 2.2 Solo
- 2.3 Other
Works
- 3 External
links
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Career
She met bandmate Geoff Barrow in a government business start-up
scheme. Barrow and Gibbons joined jazz guitarist Adrian
Utley, and the sessioners John Baggott, Jim Barr and Clive Deamer to
record two successful and critically praised Portishead
albums.
Admired by artists as diverse as Dr. Dre and Robert
Plant, the latter used Gibbons's musical associates in his
own projects.
Gibbons has also collaborated on a separate project with Paul
Webb, aka Rustin' Man. In October 2002, the album, Out
of Season, was released in the UK,
and in October
2003 it was released in the U.S.
Her Piafesque singing is partly due to her
heavy smoking habit.
"Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated
but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to
deal with my paranoia and insecurity." —Beth Gibbons.
Discography
Portishead
- Dummy (1994)
- Portishead
(1997)
- Roseland NYC Live
(1998)
- Third Portishead studio album.
Solo
- Out of Season (2002) with Rustin' Man
Other Works
- "Orang" in .O.rang's album Herd of Instinct
(1994)
- "Jalap" in .O.rang's album Fields and Waves
(1996)
- "Lonely Carousel" in Rodrigo Leao's album Cinema
- "Strange Melody" in Jane Birkin's album Rendez-Vous
- "Killing Time" in Joss Stone's Mind,
Body & Soul
- "Stranger In This Land" in Fried's album Fried
- She also has contributed writing the score for the French film L'Annulaire,
in which she contributed a song also entitled "L'Annulaire". It was not
officially released.
External links
