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Piney Gir | |
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 Piney Gir, 2015 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Angela Dawne Penhaligon[1] |
| Origin | Kansas City, United States |
| Genres | Electronic, psychedelic, indie, Americana, rock, indie pop |
| Years active | 2003—present |
| Labels | Truck Records, Greyday Records, Hotel Records, Highline Records, Damaged Goods Records, |
| Members | Garo Nahoulakian, Nick 'Growler' Fowler, Mike Monaghan, Tom Greenhalf, Mike Smith, Harry Deacon, Emma Brammer, Amy Ashworth |
| Past members | Barny Rockford, Alex Mayor, Sarah Williams, Joe Smith, Ian Kellett, Dave Howell, Simon Byrt, Dave Fisher, Alex Gold, Jamie Lockhart, Leo Whetter, A Scholar and a Physician, Steve Dawson, Oli Horton, Ash Verjee, Anne-Marie Gilkes, Andrew 'Mitch' Mitchell |
| Website | Official Site |
Piney Gir (pronounced "gear"), often shortened to Piney, is an American musician and singer, born in Kansas but based in London, England since 1998. She has released seven studio albums.
Piney's musical style is predominately edgy indie-pop, although she has been described both as a musical "chameleon"[2] and as "the indie Dolly Parton"[3] and "Transatlantic Pop Guru" [[4]].
Piney was raised in the Bible Belt of Midwest America and was sheltered from most secular music and culture growing up. She took piano lessons from the age of four and sang every week in church. As a teenager, Piney rebelled against this upbringing embracing all types of music, which may later explain her ability to write and create all genres of music. She then went to UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance where she majored in music, firstly playing drums and pitched percussion, but then changing her major to voice. When she moved to London, she went to Central Saint Martins and took some night classes while doing temp jobs by day; working in bars and clubs at night, she then joined synth pop duo Vic Twenty. Vic Twenty released a single on Mute records sub label Credible Sexy Units and toured the UK and Europe with Erasure. It was at Truck Festival that Truck Records saw Piney play the Trailer Park Stage and offered her a record deal in 2003, the start of her prolific career as a solo artist.
- ^ "BLITHE SPIRIT". ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ^ Uncut magazine, 15 September 2006
- ^ Culture Deluxe 18 October 2010
- ^ "The Independent". 22 June 2018.