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Sarah Anne Nixey (born 21 December 1973 in
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, England) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the vocalist in
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. Her debut solo album, '' Sing, Memory'', was released on 19 February 2007, followed by ''Brave Tin Soldiers'', released on 9 May 2011. Her latest album, ''Night Walks'', was released on 5 October 2018. Nixey currently lives in London with her husband, music producer
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, whom she married in late 2010 and has one son, Reuben (born late 2007) and a daughter, Lola (born late 2012). Nixey has a daughter, Ava (born 2001) from her previous marriage with John Moore.


Biography

Nixey's mother has said that she knew that her daughter would become a vocalist since she was merely a baby. Whilst working as a backing vocalist for the folk band Balloon, Nixey was approached by John Moore (who had been the drummer for
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) and
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(frontman of
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), who had formed a duo and were looking for a vocalist. The duo convinced Nixey to join them by promising her that she would become famous, and in 1998,
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released their first album, '' England Made Me'' to critical acclaim. Their second album, '' The Facts of Life'', followed in 2000, and spawned a top 20 single of the same name, which saw the group perform on
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''. A further single followed, and in 2001, Nixey married John Moore, and they had a daughter together (Nixey and Moore divorced in 2006). In 2003, Black Box Recorder released their third album, ''Passionoia''; their first and only album for
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records, following the demise of
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. In 2004, Black Box Recorder went on hiatus; not officially splitting, but with all three members deciding to pursue solo projects. In late 2005, Nixey announced she was working on a solo album, to be produced and co-written by James Banbury (a producer, programmer, writer and string arranger, as well as former member of
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). In mid-2006, two songs were made available on legal download services, entitled "The Collector" and "Love & Exile". A third song was made available in September, entitled "Strangelove", backed by remixes of "The Collector". Nixey's debut full-length solo album, entitled '' Sing, Memory'', was released on 19 February 2007, following the release of her third single, "When I'm Here With You", which was released on 29 January 2007, backed with non-album track, "Watching Over You". Drowned in Sound awarded Sing, Memory 8/10 and MusicOMH gave it 4 stars. The album was given 7/10 by the
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and 6.3 by Pitchfork In December 2007,
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teamed up with Art Brut to create the single "Christmas Number One" under the collaborative title of The Black Arts. In October 2008 Black Box Recorder appeared at the Nick Sanderson (
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) tribute concert. It was subsequently announced that the band would play their first headlining gig for five years at The Luminaire, Kilburn, London in February 2009. They then played their last gig at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London's Southbank, on 23 July 2009. A final statement was issued just prior to the 2010 UK general election stating ″on Thursday 6 May, Black Box Recorder go to the country for the last time″. Their last two recordings were "Do You Believe in God?" and "Keep It in the Family", and are available as a download. Nixey appeared as a guest vocalist on the track "Water Drops on Burning Rocks" on the autumn 2009 EP ''Blips Don't Lie'' by American electronic du
Microfilm
as well as appearing on their 2013 third album ''AggroPastels'' providing vocals for the tracks "Pretty Revolutionaries" and "Penthouse." She will also feature on their fourth studio album to be released in 2015. In April 2011, it was announced that Nixey had written and produced a new album, ''Brave Tin Soldiers'' to be released 9 May 2011 on her own label Black Lead. The press release described the album as such: "lush piano, string and choral arrangements envelop her vocal which reveals family secrets, erotic entanglements and tragic love stories". A week prior to the album, ''Brave Tin Soldiers'' EP was released with remixes by dadahack and Kids Love. The Freelance Hellraiser also released a bootleg mix entitled ''Brave Tin Lovers''. The album ''Brave Tin Soldiers'' was given four stars by ''
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'' and '' Scottish Sunday Express'', very favourable reviews in ''
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'' and radio support from
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. Following this, on 18 July 2011 ''The Homecoming'' EP was released with remixes by Microfilm and Kids Love, plus a further reworking of Black Rose by Half Cousin. A music video was also made available via YouTube, directed and produced by Black Lead Films. Later that year "Nixey's Merry Christmas" single was released on 12 December 2011 with accompanying music video on YouTube. The seductive third and final single from ''Brave Tin Soldiers'' was released on 23 April 2012. ''Silk Threads'' EP included remixes by Kids Love and Microfilm and a B-side "Devil's Playground". Subsequently, a music video for the single was published on YouTube. Towards the end of that year, Nixey released another alternative seasonal anthem, "Christmas Without You", with radio support from BBC Radio 6 music.


Discography


Black Box Recorder


Singles

*"Child Psychology" – 1998 *"England Made Me" – 1998 *"The Facts of Life" ( UK #20) – 2000 *"The Art of Driving" – 2000 *"These Are The Things" – 2003 *"The School Song" – 2003


Albums

*'' England Made Me'' – 1998 *'' The Facts of Life'' ( UK #37) – 2000 *'' The Worst of Black Box Recorder'' – 2001 *''
Passionoia ''Passionoia'' is the third and final studio album by British pop band Black Box Recorder, released in 2003. Reception ''Passionoia'' was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating ...
'' – 2003


Solo


Singles

*"The Collector" Single (download only) – 2005 *"Strangelove" EP (7" vinyl & CD) – 2006 *"The Collector" Remixes EP (download only) – 2006 *"When I'm Here With You" (download only) – 2007 *"The Black Hit of Space" (download only) – 2007 *"Le Temps de L'Amour" (download only) – 2008 *"Brave Tin Soldier" EP (download only) – 2 May 2011 *"The Homecoming" EP (download only) – 18 July 2011 *"Coming Up For Air" EP (download only) – 13 July 2018 *"The Zeppelin" EP (download only) – 14 September 2018 *"Dancing At The Edge Of The World" EP (download only) – 21 December 2018


Albums

*'' Sing, Memory'' (CD and download) – 17 February 2007 *'' Brave Tin Soldiers'' (CD and download) – 9 May 2011 *'' Night Walks'' (CD, Vinyl and download) – 5 October 2018


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nixey, Sarah 1973 births Living people English women singer-songwriters English women in electronic music English women pop singers