1. Tracey Thorn was born on 26 September 1962 and is an English singer, songwriter, and author.
21 Facts About Tracey Thorn
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Tracey Thorn is best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl, active from 1982 to 2000, and again from 2022.
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Tracey Thorn was in the band Marine Girls from 1980 to 1983.
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The youngest of three children, Thorn was born in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire.
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Tracey Thorn grew up in nearby Hatfield and studied English at the University of Hull, where she graduated in 1984 with First Class Honours.
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Tracey Thorn later took an MA degree at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Tracey Thorn began her musical career in the punk-pop hybrid group Stern Bops playing guitar and providing some vocal backing.
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Tracey Thorn then formed Marine Girls as primary songwriter, playing guitar and sharing vocals.
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Tracey Thorn met Ben Watt at the University of Hull where they were both students, and both signed as solo artists to Cherry Red Records.
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In November 2022, Watt and Tracey Thorn announced on social media that they had recorded a new album as Everything but the Girl.
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Tracey Thorn's first solo work was a mini-album entitled A Distant Shore.
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Tracey Thorn co-wrote and sings on the track "Better Things".
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Tracey Thorn sang "The Tree Knows Everything" on Adam F's debut album Colours and "Over the Rainbow" on James McMillan's 1993 Japan-only release Makin' Changes.
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Just prior to her return to recording in 2007, Tracey Thorn contributed vocals to the song "Damage" by the band Tiefschwarz on the album Eat Books.
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In March 2007, Tracey Thorn released her second solo album Out of the Woods on Virgin Records and on Astralwerks.
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In 2008, Tracey Thorn collaborated with the Hungarian acoustic downtempo group The Unbending Trees on their single "Overture", which featured on their album Chemically Happy, released by her partner Ben Watt.
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Tracey Thorn's fourth solo album was a Christmas album entitled Tinsel and Lights.
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In 2013 Tracey Thorn wrote and recorded the original music for The Falling, the debut feature film by filmmaker Carol Morley, which premiered at the London Film Festival 2014.
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In 2013 Tracey Thorn recorded two Molly Drake tracks for a documentary The Songs of Molly Drake, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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On 17 January 2018, Tracey Thorn announced the release of her album Record, which was released on 2 March.
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Tracey Thorn published a third memoir in 2019: Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia.