Beth Orton was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit, Andrew Weatherall, Red Snapper and the Chemical Brothers in the mid-1990s.
21 Facts About Beth Orton
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Beth Orton returned with Sugaring Season in 2012, which moved towards a purer acoustic sound, followed by a return to electronic music with Kidsticks, released in 2016.
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Beth Orton's music has been featured in the movies How to Deal and Vanilla Sky, and in the TV series Felicity, Charmed, Dawson's Creek, Roswell, Grey's Anatomy and Manifest, providing her with exposure to a more mainstream American audience.
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Beth Orton was born in Dereham, Norfolk, but moved to Dalston, East London, at age fourteen.
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Beth Orton's mother died from cancer in 1989, when Orton was aged 19, which led to her travelling to Thailand for a short period, living with Buddhist nuns.
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On returning to London, Beth Orton worked at jobs such as a waitress at Pizza Hut, and she even briefly owned her own catering company.
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Beth Orton was an actress before becoming a musician, initially enrolling at the Anna Scher Theatre School.
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Beth Orton toured in an experimental stage adaptation of Une Saison en Enfer with a theatre company touring throughout the UK, Russia and Ukraine, playing Rimbaud's lover.
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Beth Orton began working with William Orbit on an LP together as Spill, entitled Burn Blind.
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Beth Orton provided a one-word vocal to the first Red Snapper EP in 1994, then co-wrote and sang on "In Deep" on The Swank EP.
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Central Reservation, her second album, helped Beth Orton build on the success of her debut.
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In July 2002, Beth Orton released the album Daybreaker, which again blended the early electronica style, with uptempo pop songs and acoustic ballads.
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Beth Orton contributed a song to the War Child charity, for their Hope compilation album that year.
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Beth Orton set up steady, mantralike picking patterns, a backdrop of serene constancy for the turmoil of ache and determination in her vocals.
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Beth Orton was criticised over her music video for the song "1973" in which she is shown spray painting a federally protected Joshua tree and other desert plant life.
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However, this had changed by 2008, with Ali and Ted having moved on to form their own band Clayhill, and Ted having pursued his own projects, with Beth Orton guesting on his solo debut album, Short Scenes.
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Beth Orton gave birth to a daughter, Nancy, in mid-December 2006.
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Beth Orton cancelled her September 2006 UK tour because of her pregnancy.
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Beth Orton is married to musician Sam Amidon and the two have a son, Arthur, born in 2011.
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Beth Orton played at the One Big No concert in March 2003 at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, organised by Emily Eavis, and has participated in concerts hosted by producer Hal Willner, including the 2006 concert film Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, and performing a duet with Nick Cave as part of Willner's Allen Ginsberg Tribute at the Ace Theater in Los Angeles, in spring of 2015.
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Beth Orton played the lead female in the independent film Southlander in 2001, and returned to acting with a leading role in the British independent film Light Years, directed by Esther May Campbell.