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Miquette Giraudy is a French keyboard player and vocalist, best known for her work in
Giraudy appears on the 1974 album ''
Awave, system 7 website
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Gong
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, and with her partner Steve Hillage
Stephen Simpson Hillage (born 2 August 1951) is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s. Besides his solo sound recording and reprodu ...
. She and Hillage form the core of the ambient band System 7
System 7, codenamed "Big Bang", and also known as Mac OS 7, is a graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers and is part of the classic Mac OS series of operating systems. It was introduced on May 13, 1991, by Apple Co ...
. She has also worked as an actress, film editor and writer, in each role using different stage name
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s.
Early life
Miquette Giraudy was born on 9 February 1953, inNice
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, France.
Film
In the late 1960s Giraudy, under the name Monique Giraudy, became assistant to French film maker Jackie Raynal. She has script and assistant editing credits on the 1969 Barbet Schroeder film ''More
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Music Albums
* ''More!'' (album), by Booka S ...
''. Getting in front of the camera she then appeared, under the name Marsiale Giraudy, in Jean-Pierre Prévost's 1971 film ''Jupiter
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'', and, as Monique Giraudy, played the role of Monique in Schroeder's 1972 film '' La Vallée''. Raynal herself appeared in Martial Raysse
Martial Raysse (born 12 February 1936 in Golfe-Juan) is a French artist and actor. He lives in Issigeac, France. He holds the record for the most expensive work sold by a living French artist.
Biography
Raysse was born in a ceramicist family in ...
's 1972 film, '' Le grand départ'' and Monique Giraudy gets a full editing credit.
Gong
Already Hillage's girlfriend, Giraudy joined him in Gong as a vocalist in March 1974, replacing Diane Stewart-Bond, who had replacedGilli Smyth
Gillian Mary Smyth (1 June 1933 – 22 August 2016) was an English musician who performed with the bands Gong, Mother Gong, and Planet Gong and released several solo albums and albums in collaboration with other members of Gong. In Gong, she ...
the previous year. Smyth returned to Gong for part of 1974, with Giraudy coming back to the band in July. Hillage and Giraudy left the band together at the end of 1975.
Giraudy appears on the 1974 album ''You
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History
''You'' comes from the Proto- ...
'' as "Bambaloni Yoni" (Wee voices and Chourousings (sic)), on one track of the studio album '' Shamal'' (1975) and four tracks of '' Gong Live Etc.'' (1977). She is also on the archival release, '' Live at Sherwood Forest 75'' (2005).
Giraudy, together with Steve Hillage, reunited with Gong for various shows from 2006 onwards and the same line-up released a new album, ''2032'', in 2009.
Hillage solo albums
Giraudy appears on all of Hillage's solo albums. She played percussion, keyboards, sang and co-wrote material on ''Fish Rising
''Fish Rising'' is the debut solo album by English guitarist Steve Hillage, recorded and released in 1975.
The album was recorded just prior to Hillage's departure from the band Gong, and many of the players on this album are from that band: Ba ...
'' (1975), '' L'' (1976), ''Motivation Radio
''Motivation Radio'' is the third studio album by British art rock musician Steve Hillage. Whilst touring in the United States in promotion of his previous album '' L'' (1976), Hillage grew disillusioned with the progressive rock tag attached to ...
'' and several subsequent albums.
Although released under Hillage's name, '' Rainbow Dome Musick'' (1979), a seminal early ambient album, consisted of two sides, side A written and largely performed by Giraudy and side B written and largely performed by Hillage.
System 7
More recently, Hillage and Giraudy formedSystem 7
System 7, codenamed "Big Bang", and also known as Mac OS 7, is a graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers and is part of the classic Mac OS series of operating systems. It was introduced on May 13, 1991, by Apple Co ...
, working with a number of collaborators.
References
External links
Awave, system 7 website
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