Tracey Thorn

Bio

Tracey Thorn is a singer, songwriter and writer. After forming her first band, Marine Girls, while still at school, she delivered her breakthrough debut mini solo album, A Distant Shore in 1982. She then spent 17 years with partner-now-husband Ben Watt in Everything But The Girl. After a self-imposed hiatus to focus on family life in 2000, she returned to her solo work in 2007. Since then she has released three further solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a clutch of singles, and two books, including the best-selling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen. She currently writes a twice-monthly column for The New Statesman. Her new record, Record, was released this year.