Dee Palmer is an English composer, arranger, and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the progressive rock group Jethro Tull from 1976 to 1980.
12 Facts About Dee Palmer
1.
2.
Dee Palmer later studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Richard Rodney Bennett, winning the Eric Coates Prize and The Boosey and Hawkes Prize and during her studentship taught clarinet to second study students.
3.
Dee Palmer was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 1994.
4.
Dee Palmer was then referred to Terry Ellis, then manager of the early Jethro Tull, which was making its first album at Sound Techniques Studio in Chelsea, London.
5.
At short notice, Dee Palmer came up with arrangements for the horns and strings on the Mick Abrahams composition, "Move on Alone" from the This Was album.
6.
Dee Palmer arranged string, brass, and woodwind parts for Jethro Tull songs in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before formally joining the group in 1976 and primarily playing electronic keyboard instruments.
7.
Dee Palmer formed a new group, Tallis, with former Jethro Tull pianist and organist John Evan.
8.
The new group was not commercially successful, and Dee Palmer returned to film scoring and sessions.
9.
In 2017, Dee Palmer announced the release of her first solo album, Through Darkened Glass, which was released in January 2018 and has the guest appearance of former band-mate Martin Barre.
10.
In 1998, Palmer came out as transgender and intersex, changing her name to Dee.
11.
Dee Palmer was born with genital ambiguity, assigned male at birth, and underwent several surgeries, the last in her late twenties.
12.
Dee Palmer said her gender dysphoria had been a part of her life since she had been young, and that the dysphoria "started to reassert itself again" in the year following the death of her wife Maggie in 1995.