Goldie released a variety of singles under the pseudonym Rufige Kru and co-founded the label Metalheadz.
19 Facts About Goldie
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Goldie later released several albums under his own name, including the 1995 album Timeless, which entered the UK charts at number 7.
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Goldie's acting credits include the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, Guy Ritchie's Snatch and the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
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Goldie has appeared in a number of celebrity reality television shows, including Celebrity Big Brother 2, Strictly Come Dancing, Come Dine with Me and Maestro.
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Goldie was put up for adoption at the age of three, and raised in childcare homes and by several foster parents.
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Goldie later joined a breakdance crew called the Birmingham Bboys, and made his name as a graffiti artist in the West Midlands.
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Goldie is mentioned for his graffiti in the book Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff, which contains several examples of his art.
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Goldie moved to the United States owing to graffiti projects, and started selling grills in New York and Miami; he continued this business after his return to the UK in 1988.
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Goldie's track "Terminator", released under the name "Metalheads" in 1992, was a hit in the jungle scene and is noted for pioneering the use of time stretching.
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In 2020, Goldie launched his new record label, Fallen Tree 1Hundred.
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Goldie played gangster Angel Hudson in the British soap opera EastEnders.
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Goldie had a small documentary made about his own art on Central TV's Here and Now programme featuring Pogus Caesar's photographs of New York.
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Goldie has appeared on various young people's TV shows as part of a breakdance crew, the Bboys from Wolverhampton.
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Goldie presented the documentary series The World's Deadliest Gangs on Bravo in 2002.
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On 31 July 2009, the first of a two-part television programme Classic Goldie was broadcast, showing how in the wake of his success in the Maestro programme he learns to write a score for a large orchestra and choir.
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Goldie appeared on Celebrity Mastermind on 27 December 2009 and came fourth behind Paul O'Grady, Gail Emms and Loyd Grossman.
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Goldie then went on to say that when he crossed this with digital breakbeat, the sound evolved from jungle into drum and bass.
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Goldie was romantically involved with Icelandic singer Bjork in 1996.
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Goldie was convicted of stabbing a rival gang member to death in Wolverhampton town centre on 24 August 2008.