Candida Mary Doyle (born 25 August 1963) is an English musician who is

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and occasional backing vocalist with the band

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, which she joined in 1984. She joined her brother, drummer Magnus Doyle in the line-up replacing the previous keyboard player, Tim Allcard who had left the band.

Biography

Doyle attended piano lessons from age 8, but did not practise despite finding the experience enjoyable. At age 16 Doyle was diagnosed with

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. During Doyle's first few years in the group, Pulp were not enjoying financial success; she has been recorded as saying that she spent more money on the band than she made from it. She kept jobs in two

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s in

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, before being sacked from one for a "lack of dedication". Although Pulp "sort of split up" in the period around 1986, they went on to release ''

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'' in 1987 with Doyle on board for her first album. When playing live with the band Doyle has used Farfisa Compact Professional and Roland XP-10 synthesizers as well as Akai S3000 samplers. Other artistic members of her family include her mother

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, an actress who has appeared in ''

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'', and two musician brothers. Her grandfather owned a fishing factory in the

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. Doyle has lived in many places, including Belfast (where she was born), Manchester,

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from the age of ten and where Pulp formed, and

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, her current home. Since Pulp began a hiatus in 2002, Doyle has occasionally appeared live with

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, playing keyboards. Following this period, with Pulp's 2011 reunion, Doyle joined the rest of the ''

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'' line-up on stage in concert for their UK comeback gig at the

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on 11 June 2011.

References

External links

Unofficial Pulp website
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