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Caron Liza Geary (born 15 October 1963 in
Paddington
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,
London
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),
known by various stage names, is an English female
ragga
Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music. The instrumentals primarily consist of electronic music. Similar to hip hop, sampling often serves a prominent role in raggamuffin music.
Wayne Smi ...
muffin
toaster
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Types
Pop-up toaster
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. She was the first white female reggae/dancehall MC.
According to Geary, her first recorded appearance was on a cover of "Kid Ralph", a dancehall track by Little Twitch.
The song talks about a "legendary" homosexual figure in
Jamaica
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's prison system.
She has subsequently worked as a solo artist and with other musicians, including
Erasure
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and
Boy George
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, who described her music as "the dirtiest 'slackest' reggae I'd heard since the seventies".
Background
Growing up in
Marylebone
Marylebone (usually , also , ) is a district in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster. Oxford Street, Europe's busiest shopping street, forms its southern boundary.
An ancient parish and latterly a metropolitan borough, it me ...
,
Geary lived adjacent to an after-hours party which blasted out reggae music;
as a result, Geary was exposed to reggae from a very young age. It is these experiences which inspired her to write the controversial song "
Everything Starts with an 'E'" as part of
E-Zee Possee, which was banned by the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...
because of its lyrics and made No. 69 in the
UK Singles Chart
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in 1989, leaving the chart after only one week;
however it was re-released less than a year later in March 1990 and climbed to No. 15 on the
UK chart,
spending eight weeks in the chart.
Kinky's first solo single, the
Apollo 440
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produced "
Get Over It",
reached No. 95 on the UK Singles Chart.
Her only solo top 75 hit, coming five years later, was
Everybody, released under the name "Kinky", which charted at No. 71 on that chart.
Kinky has been touring
underground
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Underground may also refer to:
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, occasionally providing vocals for other artists. In 1997, she took a residency in Ibiza as "the Infidel",
operating under the name for a week
before writing an album called Cantankerous and taking up the name for herself.
When a member of staff at Club Motherfucker described her sound as "feral pop",
she became "Feral" and finally ended up with "Feral a.k.a. MC Kinky"
and "FERALisKINKY"
Artistry
Descriptions of Geary's sound have varied from a "bass driven, vitriolic sonic hybrid of grimy electronic ragga, manic house and punk rock"
to a "white female raggamuffin toaster".
Kinky has denounced these descriptions, saying "I can't be bothered with people who spend large amounts of time trying to place people and music into small and narrow categories. I do what comes naturally to me, and it usually has a combination of influences."
Discography
Singles
Solo singles
As featured artist
Other songs
References
External links
Official websiteYouTube channel
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1963 births
Living people
English women rappers
British reggae musicians
British dancehall musicians
People from Paddington
People from Marylebone
Rappers from London
Singers from London
20th-century English musicians
21st-century English musicians
20th-century English women singers
20th-century English singers
21st-century English women musicians