Beth Gibbons’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British singer
Is Musician 
Singer 
Guitarist 
Songwriter 
From United Kingdom 
Type Music 
Gender female
Birth 4 January 1965, Exeter
Age: 55 years

Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965) is an English singer and songwriter. She is the singer and lyricist for the English band Portishead.

Early life

Gibbons was born in Exeter, Devon, and raised on a farm with two other sisters. Her parents divorced when she was young. At 22, she moved to Bath, then Bristol to pursue her singing career, where she met Geoff Barrow, her future collaborator in Portishead. She sings in the contralto range.

Career

With Adrian Utley, Gibbons and Barrow released the first Portishead album Dummy in 1994 and have produced two other studio albums, a live album, and various singles in the years since. She has also collaborated on a separate project with former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb (Rustin Man). Before she joined Geoff Barrow in Portishead, she had auditioned for the singer’s slot in .O.rang, the group formed by Webb after Talk Talk’s late-Eighties departure from EMI, but Portishead’s sudden success pre-empted matters. In October 2002, they released the album Out of Season in the United Kingdom under the name Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man. The album peaked at number 28 in the UK Albums Chart. It was released in the United States a year later.

She has cited Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Sugarcubes, Pixies and Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins as musical influences.

Gibbons was also a judge for the 10th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists’ careers.

In June 2013, Gibbons announced plans for a new solo album with Domino Records. She contributed vocals to a cover of the song “Black Sabbath” with the British metal band Gonga, entitled “Black Sabbeth”, released 24 April 2014.

Discography

Portishead

  • Dummy (1994)
  • Portishead (1997)
  • Roseland NYC Live (1998)
  • Third (2008)

Solo

  • Out of Season (2002) with Rustin Man

Other works

  • “Orang” on .O.rang’s album Herd of Instinct (1994)
  • “Jalap” on .O.rang’s album Fields and Waves (1996)
  • “Lonely Carousel” on Rodrigo Leão’s album Cinema
  • “Strange Melody” on Jane Birkin’s album Rendez-Vous
  • “Killing Time” on Joss Stone’s Mind Body & Soul
  • Soundtrack for Diane Bertrand’s film “L’Annulaire” (unreleased, 2005)
  • “My Secret” on Jane Birkin’s album Fictions
  • “Stranger in this Land” on Fried’s album Fried
  • “Sing” with Annie Lennox from Songs of Mass Destruction
  • Soundtrack for Diane Bertrand’s film Baby Blues
  • “Requiem for Anna” on Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited – performed as Portishead
  • Soundtrack for Julie Taymor’s film “The Tempest (2010 film)” – “Prospera’s Coda” by Elliot Goldenthal
  • “Mysteries” with Rustin Man from “The Russian Dolls” soundtrack
  • “Black Sabbeth” with Gonga
  • “GMO” on JJ DOOM’s Key to the Kuffs
  • Gordon, Jeremy (24 April 2014). “Portishead’s Beth Gibbons Covers Black Sabbath’s “Black Sabbath” With Metal Band Gonga”. Pitchfork. Retrieved 6 May 2014. 
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