Gilli smyth biography samples
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June 1st, 1933 - August 22, 2016
Gilli grew up in musical household, took three degrees at Kings College, London University, where she edited college magazine, wrote controversial political stuff that hit the tabloids, did readings and musical and theatrical performances, as she had from an early age.
Published a couple of books of poetry.
Gilli smyth biography samples
However it was not until she went to Paris, started living with Daevid Allen, and eventually Gong I spontaneously arose around them, that she really started to develop the potential of her voice, and the lifetime habit of constant gigs.
In late l967 and 68 in Paris, they played every night at club "La Vielle Grille" and it was during this time, with another singer Zizka Baum, that Gilli developed the ethereal method of atonal singing, vocalising and "musical landscaping" that she is famous for.
This band was dispersed by the May l968 revolution but Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth returned to France in late l969 to gather an