English singer Beth Gibbons was born on January 4, 1965 in Exeter, Devon. At 22, she went to Bristol to try her luck as a singer, performing in pubs. At Bristol, Gibbons met Geoff Barrow. In 1991, both of them and Adrian Utley formed Portishead, one of the most relevant bands to emerge in the United Kingdom during the 1990s and associated with trip hop, a style of experimental pop music that emerged in the late 1980s in Bristol, England, characterized by tempos slow and flirting with different styles, such as jazz, rap, soul, funk, reggae and dub, resulting in atmospheric-sounding songs. And it was in the atmospheric sounds of Portishead that she created her voice, intensely charged with emotions.
His first work away from his bandmates was the album Out of Season (2002), a work in partnership with former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb, who used the pseudonym Rustin Man.
However, her first solo album, Lives Outgrown, only arrived in 2024, to a good critical reception. This work brings together material that the artist had been working on over the last few years.
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