Martina Topley-Bird

ICE QUEEN: Martina Topley-Bird
BAND: Tricky, Solo artist
ORIGIN: Bristol, England
GENRE: Trip Hop
ACCOMPLICES: Tricky
DISCOGRAPHY: Tricky: "Maxinquaye" (1994), "Nearly God" (1996), "Pre-Millenium Tension" (1996); Solo: "Quixotic" (2003).
INFLUENCES:

IMHO: "What's the point of being alive if you are not sensual?" I read these words coming from Martina's mouth in this interview and I think they totally define her style and her sound. Martina and Tricky have made the sexiest music I have ever heard to date. The combination of their voices and the smoothness of the music make it so sensual it's dangerous if you're alone in a room with someone else (and there's some kind of attraction, of course). If you know any other band that is sexier than them please let me know, because I can't think of it. "Maxinquaye" is such a jewel, not only for the reason I was just mentioning but also because it is one of the first albums from the trip hop genre which imploded from Bristol in the mid-nineties thanks to DJ Shadow, Tricky and Massive Attack and then spread like a disease (a good one, if there is such a thing) and made possible historic bands like Portishead, Lamb and Moloko amongst others. You are welcome to find out about these bands in this same category by checking out the different queens.

Martina's first album "Quixotic" was released in the US in a different format under the name of "Anything". If any employee of the record industry is reading this, can you tell me why things like this happen? Why can't they just release the album in its original format? Is it because it is too hard to spell? Thanks in advance for your explanation.

FAVOURITE SONGS: "Black Steel", "Ponderosa", "Hell is Round The Corner", "Slowly"
FAVOURITE ALBUM: "Maxinquaye"

WHAT OTHERS SAY: "Anyone familiar with Tricky's ground-breaking early work, most notably the still mesmerising debut album Maxinquaye, from 1994, will know all about the singular qualities of Martina Topley Bird's singing voice. It is an instrument of rare and offbeat beauty, achingly tender and oddly broken, exotic and yet emphatically, endearingly English. The perfect cracked vessel, in fact, for carrying Tricky's dark odes to urban disaffection." taken from the article "Girl Interrupted" from The Guardian (sorry, my English isn't good enough to describe as well as this journalist her voice)