MC Kinky
| MC Kinky | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Caron Geary |
| Also known as | Feral,[1] Feral is Kinky,[1] Feral aka MC Kinky,[2] Cantankerous,[1] The Infidel[1] |
| Origin | Kilburn, North West London, England[3][4] |
| Genres | Ragga |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels | More Protein |
| Associated acts | E-Zee Possee, Jesus Loves You, Erasure, Boy George, Flight, Natacha Atlas, Jam & Spoon, Gwen Stefani, Towa Tei, Endymion |
Caron Geary,[1] known by various stage names, is an English female raggamuffin toaster. (In Jamaican music, a toaster is someone who talks or chants to an instrumental accompaniment.) She was the first white female reggae/dancehall MC.[1][5]
According to Geary, her first recorded appearance was on a cover of Kid Ralph, a dancehall track by Little Twitch.[6][7][8] The song talks about a 'legendary' homosexual figure in Jamaica's prison system.[9] She has subsequently worked as a solo artist and with other musicians, including Erasure and Boy George, who described her music as "the dirtiest 'slackest' reggae I'd heard since the seventies".[10]
Contents
Background
Growing up in Marylebone,[11] Geary lived adjacent to an after-hours party which blasted out reggae music;[11] as a result, Geary was exposed to reggae from a very young age. It is these experiences which inspired her to write the controversial song Everything Starts With An 'E' as part of E-Zee Possee, which was banned by the BBC because of its lyrics[12] and made #69 in the UK Singles Chart in 1989, leaving the chart after only one week;[13] however it was re-released less than a year later in March 1990 and climbed to #15 on the UK chart,[13] spending eight weeks in the chart.[13]
Kinky's first solo single, the Apollo 440 produced "Get Over It",[14] reached #95 on the UK Singles Chart.[15] Her only solo top 75 hit, coming five years later, was Everybody, released under the name "Kinky", which charted at #71 on that chart.[16]
Kinky has been touring underground, occasionally providing vocals for other artists. In 1997, she took a residency in Ibiza as "the Infidel",[11] operating under the name for a week[17] before writing an album called Cantankerous and taking up the name for herself.[11] When a member of staff at Club Motherfucker described her sound as "feral pop",[6] she became "Feral" and finally ended up with "Feral aka MC Kinky"[2] and "FERALisKINKY"[18]
Artistry
Descriptions of Geary's sound have varied from a "bass driven, vitriolic sonic hybrid of grimy electronic ragga, manic house and punk rock"[5] to a "white female raggamuffin toaster".[19] Kinky has denounced these descriptions, saying "I can't be bothered with people who spend large amounts of time trying to place people and music into small and narrow categories. I do what comes naturally to me, and it usually has a combination of influences."[19]
Discography
Singles
Solo singles
| Year | Single | UK chart position |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | "Get Over It"[15] | 95 |
| 1991 | "Inna We Kingdom"[20] | — |
| 1992 | "Won Love"[20] | — |
| 1992 | "Twisting The Mind"[20] | — |
| 1996 (as "Kinky") | "Everybody"[16] | 71 |
As featured artist
| Year | Single | UK chart position |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | "Everything Starts With An 'E'" (E-Zee Possee ft. MC Kinky)[21] | 69 |
| 1990 | "Everything Starts With An 'E'" (re-entry) (E-Zee Possee ft. MC Kinky)[21] | 15 |
| 1990 | "Generations of Love" (Jesus Loves You ft. MC Kinky)[22] | 80 |
| 1991 | "Generations of Love" (re-entry) (Jesus Loves You ft. MC Kinky)[22] | 35 |
| 1992 | "Take a Chance on Me" (Erasure ft. MC Kinky)[23] | 1 |
| 1992 | "Flight" (Flight ft. MC Kinky)[24] | — |
| 1995 | "Yalla Chant" (She A Baad Gal Edit; Natacha Atlas ft. MC Kinky)[25] | — |
| 2000 | "The Chase" (Giorgio Moroder vs. Jam & Spoon ft. MC Kinky)[26] | — |
| 2001 | "We Love" (Storm ft. MC Kinky)[27] | — |
| 2006 | "Wind It Up" (Abashment Electro House Mix; Gwen Stefani ft. MC Kinky)[26] | — |
| 2013 | "Raging in the Dancehall" (Endymion & The Viper ft. FERAL is KINKY) | — |
| 2013 | "Bring Dat" (Daishi Dance ft. FERAL is KINKY) | — |
Other songs
| Year | Song |
|---|---|
| 1989 | "Kipsy" (Boy George ft. MC Kinky)[28] |
| 1995 | "Son of Bambi (Walk Tuff)" (Towa Tei ft. MC Kinky)[29] |
References
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