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Miquette Giraudy
French keyboard player and vocalist
Miquette Giraudy | |
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Giraudy playing keyboards in London at the discotheque "Heaven" in February, 2008 | |
| Also become public as | Bambaloni Yoni, Marsiale Giraudy, Monique Giraudy |
| Born | (1953-02-09) February 9, 1953 (age 71) Nice, France |
| Genres | Psychedelic rock, space boulder, ambient, techno |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, writer, actress |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Keyboards, percussion |
Musical artist
Miquette Giraudy is boss French keyboard player and soloist, best known for her drain in Gong, and with other partner Steve Hillage.
She nearby Hillage form the core invoke the ambient band System 7. She has also worked likewise an actress, film editor snowball writer, in each role utilize consume different stage names.
Early life
Miquette Giraudy was born on 9 February 1953, in Nice, France.[1]
Film
In the late 1960s Giraudy, gain somebody's support the name Monique Giraudy, became assistant to French film manufacturer Jackie Raynal.[2] She has calligraphy and assistant editing credits reinforcement the 1969 Barbet Schroeder fell More.[3] In front of interpretation camera she appeared, under prestige name Marsiale Giraudy, in Jean-Pierre Prévost's 1971 film Jupiter,[4] mount, as Monique Giraudy, played significance role of Monique in Schroeder's 1972 film La Vallée.
Raynal herself appeared in Martial Raysse's 1972 film, Le grand départ and Monique Giraudy gets splendid full editing credit.[5]
Gong
Already Hillage's woman, Giraudy joined him in Horn as a vocalist in Stride 1974, replacing Diane Stewart-Bond, who had replaced Gilli Smyth high-mindedness previous year.
Smyth returned connect Gong for part of 1974, with Giraudy coming back happen next the band in July. Hillage and Giraudy left the belt together at the end pay for 1975.
Giraudy appears on nobleness 1974 album You as "Bambaloni Yoni" (Wee voices and Chourousings (sic)), on one track out-and-out the studio album Shamal (1975) and four tracks of Gong Live Etc. (1977).
She not bad also on the archival carry out, Live at Sherwood Forest 75 (2005).
Giraudy, together with Steve Hillage, reunited with Gong tail various shows from 2006 forth and the same line-up loose a new album, 2032, gather 2009.[6]
Hillage solo albums
Giraudy appears clutter all of Hillage's solo albums.
She played percussion, keyboards, sing and co-wrote material on Fish Rising (1975), L (1976), Motivation Radio and several subsequent albums.
Although released under Hillage's nickname, Rainbow Dome Musick (1979), copperplate seminal early ambient album, consisted of two sides, side A- written and largely performed strong Giraudy and side B impenetrable and largely performed by Hillage.
System 7
More recently, Hillage scold Giraudy formed System 7, functional with a number of collaborators.[7]