Biography of goldie musician

Biography

Goldie started his career as a member of a breakdance crew in Wolverhampton, and made his name as a graffiti artist in the West Midlands.

The album fused the hypersyncopated breakbeats and reggae chic common in jungle music with a provocative bassline and soulful diva vocals. That album's title track, a 21-minute symphonic piece, was a masterstroke, and the lively "Inner City Life" was a smash. The album fused the breakbeats and basslines common in jungle with orchestral textures and soul vocals, and its title track was a 21-minute symphonic piece.

For the last few years, Goldie has DJd all over the world.

He moved to New York for a while and started selling gold teeth, a business he continued when he returned to England in 1988 and turned into his trademark. With it, he became one of few electronic musicians to ever achieve such an award.

This period proved equally fruitful music-wise, particularly in terms of Goldie’s production catalogue.

The album's opening track, "Mother" a 60-minute orchestral/drum-n-bass piece, is a haunting track and serves as the companion piece to "Timeless." The remainder of the album, featuring cameos by David Bowie, Noel Gallagher of Oasis, and rapper KRS-One, is a mishmash of Goldie's signature sound. He recorded his first single as Ajax Project, then debuted on Reinforced as Metalheadz with two 1992 singles, “Killermuffin” and “Menace.” The 1993 single “Terminator” broke him into the jungle scene — besides pioneering the crucial jungle concept of time-stretching (basically extending a sample without altering its pitch) the single evinced the growing separation between the uplifting rave scene and its emerging dark side, reliant on breakbeats and restless vibes.

The name was later taken for his influential Metalheadz Records, which released material from a legion of crucial jungle artists: Photek, Doc Scott, Dillinja, Source Direct, Peshay, J Majik, Alex Reece, Lemon D, and Optical, among others.

His debut album, "Timeless", followed two years later, and was hailed by critics as a masterpiece. He bounced around child-care homes and several sets of foster parents during his childhood years, and became fascinated with the rise of hip-hop, breakdancing, and graffiti art. After spending several years working on his production skills at Reinforced Records (the home of 4hero), he founded Metalheadz Records, which released seminal dark yet intelligent singles by Source Direct, Photek, J.

Majik, Optical, Lemon D, Wax Doctor, and Peshay, among others. He also starred in Snatch (2000) and The Ninth Gate (1999) with Johnny Depp. He began hanging out with two fellow heads from the British hip-hop scene, Nellee Hooper and 3-D (later of Massive Attack), and by 1991 he’d been introduced to the breakbeat culture that birthed jungle; at the seminal club night Rage, DJs Grooverider and Fabio pitched ancient breakbeats up to 45 rpm, blending their creations with the popular rave music of the time.

7 and sold over 250,000 copies. In 1995, Goldie released Timeless, one of jungle’s first and best full-length works of art. He also spent time in New York and Miami (working in a market stall selling customized gold teeth), but returned to England by 1988. He gained additional fame in early 1996, when an American tour supporting Björk sparked a relationship between the two and led to a brief engagement period before they called off a wedding.

He was knighted as a Member of the British Empire (MBE) not long after, for services to music and young people. The duo’s Reinforced Records and recordings as 4hero were fostering an increasingly artistic attitude to the music, and Goldie learned much about breakbeat production and engineering at their studios.

The album tanked with critics and fans, leading to a return to the underground later that year with the Ring of Saturn EP.

The beginning of the millennium ushered in a new era for Goldie’s musical production. He began a seven-week residency at long-running London nightclub XOYO, selling out the venue multiple times in the process; he performed at global festival stages, including Glastonbury (UK), Tomorrowland (Belgium) and Primavera Sound (Spain); and he ventured into the classical music realm, hosting and performing full orchestral shows at two of London’s premiere concert halls: the Royal Albert Hall and Southbank Centre.

In most recent times, Price has also ventured into the modelling world, making his catwalk debut for high-end luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton in their SS22 menswear collection.

In 2001 Goldie played Angel in EastEnders.

In 2002 Hodder & Stoughton published Goldie’s autobiography Nine Lives, which he wrote with Paul Gorman.