|
Mc kinky was born on 15th of October 19....
(none of you business!!).She is a rarity in music:
She is a white female raggamuffin toaster.Just
do not try to pigeonhole her as a reggae artis."I
cant be bothered with people who spend large
amounts of time trying to place people and music Into small and narrow", says the woman also known as Caron Geary."I do what comes natrually to me, and It usually has a combination of influences".She grew up in North London, on a diet of reggae, David Essex,Marc Bolan and KateBush.After being expelled from sixt-form college she worked in children's play centres by day and in nightclubs after dark.Altough her initial foray into music was as a drummer, her love of bob marley inspired her to try "chatting" over music.
She did a demo called "Kinky reggae" wich she had the of giving to Boy George when she met him in a London nightclub. He encouraged her to develop her talent.Shortley after rapping on "Kipsy" a track on George's "High hat" album, he signed her to More protein.That led to an appearance of the first E-zee posse single "Everything startswith an E" wich was the big break for her.Reaching the top 20 in the Uk and becoming an Anthem for a "Summer of love" generation.The song was written as an instrumental by Jeremy... Read More ... Healy, a long time friend of Boy George.George thought it needed some vocals and thought of Kinky right away.When delivered to the record company they tried to get rid of the rap, saying it wasn't working, but George stood firm and said that without Mc Kinky there was no record left.Virgin didn't wnt to put money into an "E" record so George financed the first pressing himself, wich were sold out in no time at all.Dj's started to play the record in the clubs,Famous DJ Paul Olkenfold heard the record and asked George why even he wasn't able to get a copy George replyed with " why don't you asked your girlfriend". His own girlfriend was working at Virgin and was blocking the release of the record!!Then Virgin started to notice it and probably smelled money as they suddenly were keen to release it.But with no radio promotion (except for the illigal dance channels) it was destined to fail.But with demand still very high Virgin re-re-released it again, and with even more DJ support it finally went on to become the sucsess it desereved.Taking Kinky all over the world promoting the song.Virgin finnaly saw the potential of Kinky and send her into the studio to record solo singles "Get over it" and "Inna we kingdom". But although Virgin put a lot of money into studio time, re-mixers etc, they didn't do a good job at promoting the records. They all failed to chart.She did make an appearance on "Generations of love" by Jesus loves you (Kinky sung lead vocals at some live performances!!)which again took her well into the top 20 world wide and on Erasure's ABBA EP wich took her even higher even to numebr 1 in the UK (and many other countries!!). But after a big row with George she thought it was time to leave. Virgin was not keen to let her go and she did have a contract so she released some white labels with disguised names like minnie the minx for example, but Virgin soon saw there was no way Kinky would work for them again and let her go.
She was soon snapped up by EMI and released a single called Everybody under the name of Kinky but even with a multiple of mixes it didn't gain the intrest Kinky and the record company hoped it would gain and she left EMI right after the single. Since then she has done many colaborations with different artists with just as many different kind of musical styles for example she did vocals on Jam & Spoons mix of the chase by Giorgio Moroder and on Jah Wobbles Forever (although I have located that Cd I havent heard Kinky on the song, but Ive been guaranteed that there is a version with her on it), or Natasha Atlas a worldfamous Arabic singer.She also did some Demos, some under different names, and also Dj-ed and performed at various places (Twilo, New York, Love Parade 98, Berlin and many more places)Then in 1999 she teamed up with Wayward soul for a track called "Real wild child" when remixed and re-released in 2001 it was a massive club hit.Also in 2001 she teamed up with Storm (who are Jam & Spoon under another name and have had Hits with >Storm and Time to burn<)) on a remix of a track called "we love" first released in Germany but soon picked up by different labels worldwide.Caron also is a photgrapher these days (So Ive been told).But don't think she has stopped doing music, she's still doing various projects, so Kinky is still going as strong as ever!!!
|
