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Born to a Ghanian father and Scottish mother in the latter's homeland in 1963, Helicopter Girl aka Jackie Joyce first took flight as a vocalist with folk
group Ambisonic and adopted her stage name from a song written with the group titled Helicopter Kinda Girl. Her solo debut album How to Steal the
World, released in the summer of 2000, found the singer ditching her precise, folk-inflected vocals for a more raspy, theatrical delivery a la Eartha Kitt.
Although the record's experimental trip hop and dance sound was met with poor sales, it did garner a Mercury Prize nomination. After an ex ...read more
Born to a Ghanian father and Scottish mother in the latter's homeland in 1963, Helicopter Girl aka Jackie Joyce first took flight as a vocalist with folk
group Ambisonic and adopted her stage name from a song written with the group titled Helicopter Kinda Girl. Her solo debut album How to Steal the
World, released in the summer of 2000, found the singer ditching her precise, folk-inflected vocals for a more raspy, theatrical delivery a la Eartha Kitt.
Although the record's experimental trip hop and dance sound was met with poor sales, it did garner a Mercury Prize nomination. After an extended
break from the business Joyce returned with a more pop rock-driven set on 2004's Voodoo Chic and electropop on 2008's Metropolitan. Her last record
Wanda Meant was self-released in April 2015. « hide |
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