1. Rose Kemp was born on 11 December 1984 and is an English singer and guitarist who performs in a variety of musical genres.
11 Facts About Rose Kemp
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Rose Kemp is the daughter of Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp of the folk-rock band Steeleye Span.
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Rose Kemp wrote, and sang lead vocals on, several of the album's tracks.
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Rose Kemp subsequently toured with The Oyster Band as part of The Big Session, appearing with them across the UK and Europe.
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Rose Kemp recorded a mini-album, originally entitled The Free To Be Me EP, but later renamed simply Mini-Album, at Warehouse Studios in Oxford with members of The Fourers.
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The new recording was very much a rock record, with Rose Kemp playing electric guitar and taking charge of the arrangements and production for the first time in her career.
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Rose Kemp signed an album deal with One Little Indian Records in July 2005, and recorded her second full-length album, A Hand Full of Hurricanes, at studios in Bristol and Cardiff with producer Charlie Francis.
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Rose Kemp released a fourth album, Golden Shroud, in 2010, and promoted it on a tour with Mono and Grails.
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In December 2010, a Rose Kemp cover version of the Cardiacs song "Wind and Rains is Cold" - recorded in collaboration with electronic musician Rarg - appeared on Leader Of The Starry Skies: A Tribute To Tim Smith, Songbook 1, a fundraising compilation album to benefit the hospitalised Cardiacs leader Tim Smith.
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Rose Kemp has been known to cover another Cardiacs song, "Fairy Mary Mag," in concert as an a capella version.
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In February 2006 Rose Kemp joined an instrumental Post-rock band called Snakes on a Plane as their lead guitarist.