Daisy Martey is a British singer, songwriter, playwright and screenwriter. She is the lead

vocalist Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

for Noonday Underground. Late in 2004, Martey left the band to become the lead singer of

Morcheeba Morcheeba is an English electronic band formed in the mid-1990s with founding members vocalist Skye Edwards and the brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey. They mix influences from trip hop, rock, folk rock and downtempo, and have produced ten regula ...

, replacing their former singer,

Skye Edwards Skye Edwards (born Shirley Klaris Yonavieve Edwards; 27 May 1974), sometimes simply Skye, is a British singer-songwriter. Her career began in 1994 when she and the Godfrey brothers (Paul Godfrey, a DJ, and Ross Godfrey, a multi-instrumentalist ...

. Martey recorded the vocals for Morcheeba's fifth studio album, The Antidote, which was released in May 2005. In 2007, she was named in

Sonia Boyce Sonia Dawn Boyce, (born 1962) is a British Afro-Caribbean artist and educator, living and working in London. She is a Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London. Boyce's research interests explore art as a social pract ...

's Devotional series celebrating iconic Black British singers alongside distinguished artists such as

Sade Sade may refer to: People * Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French aristocrat, writer, and libertine * Sade (singer) (born 1959, Helen Folasade Adu), British Nigerian musician and lead singer of the eponymous band * Sade Baderinwa (born 1969), WAB ...

and Shirley Bassey in an exhibition by the National Portrait Gallery.

References

External links

Official Daisy Martey Page
on Myspace
Official Noonday Underground Page
on Myspace Living people Year of birth missing (living people) British women singers {{UK-singer-stub