Kirsty McGee(II)
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
From activist beginnings, singer-songwriter Kirsty McGee has solidly toured around the UK and Europe for 20 years, releasing 8 albums and a number of side-projects. Collaborators in her Hobopop Collective have included New York jazz legend Marc Ribot (Tom Waits), Nick Blacka & Rob Turner (Gogo Penguin).
With a voice that has been described as having the texture of 'smoke and velvet' her ever-evolving sound has been described as 'filmic, joyful and dirty with hints of gospel and blues'. An innate curiousity, a DIY ethic and with an abiding love of the Great American Songbook, have produced music that's hard to categorise but difficult to ignore.
In 2013 her song Sandman was featured on UK filmmaker Danny Boyle's movie Trance. Ever in search of the authentic, the real and the honest, McGee continues to plough her own furrow and to work with the kind of musical visionaries that, of themselves, give kudos to her art.