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Kim Deal
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| Kim Deal | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Birth name | Kimberly Ann Deal | |
| Also known as | Mrs. John Murphy | |
| Born | June 10, 1961 (age 45) Dayton, Ohio |
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| Genre(s) | Alternative rock | |
| Occupation(s) | Musician | |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals Bass guitar Guitar Drums |
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| Years active | 1985 — present | |
| Label(s) | 4AD | |
| Associated acts |
Pixies The Amps The Breeders |
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Kim Deal (born June 10, 1961 as Kimberly Ann Deal) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Deal first joined the Pixies in late 1985 as the band's bassist, adopting the stage name Mrs. John Murphy (after the name of her husband at the time) for the band's releases Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa. After Doolittle and the Pixies' resulting hiatus, she formed The Breeders, who soon released their debut album Pod. After the Pixies reconvened, her influence in the band lessened and she felt increasingly sidelined by the band's frontman, Black Francis; this lead to the Pixies' breakup in late 1992 and early 1993.
Deal then reunited The Breeders, who released their EP Safari, and then the studio album Last Splash, to critical and commercial success, but the band went into stasis after her identical twin sister, Kelley Deal, entered rehab. During the band's eight year hiatus, Deal formed The Amps, who then recorded their only album Pacer. She is currently touring and recording with the Pixies, who reunited in 2004.
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Kimberly Deal was born in Dayton, Ohio on 10 June 1961.[1] She and her identical twin sister Kelley were introduced to music at a young age; the two sang to a "two-track, quarter-inch, tape" when they were "four or five" years old. When Deal was 11, she learned Roger Miller's "King of the Road" on the acoustic guitar.[2] In high school, at Wayne High School, Huber Heights, Ohio, she was a cheerleader and often got into conflicts with authority.[2] She formed a band, The Breeders, with her twin sister Kelley in her teenager years, and became a prolific songwriter: she said "it was easier to make up your own songs." She later commented on her songwriting output:[3]
| “ | I got like a hundred songs when I was like 16, 17. I look at 'em and think, "Oh, you poor..." The music is pretty good, but the lyrics are just like, OH MY GOD. We were just trying to figure out how blues rhymes with you. When I was writing 'em, they didn't have anything to do with who I was. | ” |
Deal married and moved to Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, John Murphy.
She became a bassist and vocalist for the Pixies in 1986, after answering an advertisement for a bassist who was into Hüsker Dü and Peter, Paul & Mary. Initially she went under the stage name "Mrs. John Murphy," after her then husband. She is credited that way on 1988's Surfer Rosa. Deal recorded and performed with Pixies until 1992, when the group split, largely because of increasing tension between her and frontman Black Francis.
In 1989, in order to play a larger vocal role in a band, she teamed up with Tanya Donelly and Josephine Wiggs to form a band called The Breeders, who released their debut album, Pod, in 1990.
A year after the Pixies breakup, Kim's identical twin sister Kelley Deal joined the The Breeders on lead guitar and the band released its second album, Last Splash, to critical acclaim and considerable commercial success. The record went platinum within a year of its release.
At the height of The Breeders' popularity in the mid-1990s, they scored a number of MTV hits, including "Cannonball," "Divine Hammer," and "Saints." The band also released the vinyl-only "Head to Toe" 10" EP during the summer of 1994, when they appeared on the main stage of Lollapalooza. Although the band went into stasis in 1994 when Kelley Deal entered rehab for heroin addiction, they never officially split up, and in 2002 released Title TK. During this 8-year hiatus, Kim Deal kept busy by forming, recording, and touring with The Amps. She also produced albums for other groups, most notably fellow Dayton band Guided by Voices.
Kim contributed her voice to the Sonic Youth single, "Little Trouble Girl" from their 1995 album Washing Machine. She also appears in the Mark Romanek music video for the song.
In 2004, Kim Deal returned to a newly-reunited Pixies and toured North America with them. One notable performance included a live taping for public television's "Austin City Limits" in October of 2004. The Pixies also played the Coachella Festival in Indio, CA in 2004 and headlined Lollapalooza in 2005 at Chicago's Grant Park. The Pixies also toured the UK to massive acclaim including a headline appearance at the Reading Festival.
As of May 2006, Deal is working on new material with The Breeders with plans to release an EP late in the year and a full length album in early 2007. The working lineup at this point includes Kim and Kelley Deal, Jose Medeles and Carrie Bradley. The Pixies also plan to record a new studio album.
Kim's main bass guitar is a 1962 reissue coral-colored Fender Precision Bass, amplified though an Ampeg SVT. Sometimes Kim uses an Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay. She does not generally switch basses onstage as "There's just no time between songs".
Dandy Warhols' released a tribute song, "Cool As Kim Deal", on their 1997 album ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down. Japanese rock group The Pillows released a tribute song, "Kim Deal", on 1999's Happy Bivouac. The line "Here Comes Your Man" appears at the end of their song "Backseat Dog," and immediately precedes "Kim Deal" in the track listing.
References to her musical work have appeared in popular culture. Boston band Francine released a tribute song, "Pop Warner", on their 2000 album Forty on a Fall Day. It references some of her work with the Amps. French Indie-Rocker Julie Peel covered Kim Deal's "Divine Hammer" for a limited edition blue vinyl split single released by indie label American Laundromat Records in December 2006. American Laundromat Records announced plans to release a Kim Deal Tribute CD in late 2007 or early 2008. Bands from all over the world will cover Kim's work from the Pixies, The Breeders, and The Amps.
Jim DeRogatis' book Staring At Sound states that The Flaming Lips song "Kim's Watermelon Gun" is a "song that paints an impressionistic portrait of [...] Kim Deal", whom band member Steven Drozd befriended when they met at Lollapalooza.
- ^ Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. "Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies." Virgin Books, 2006. ISBN 0-312-34007-9 p. 4
- ^ a b Frank, Ganz, 2006. p. 5
- ^ Frank, Ganz, 2006. p. 6
- Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. "Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies." Virgin Books, 2006. ISBN 0-312-34007-9.
| Pixies |
| Black Francis | Kim Deal | Joey Santiago | David Lovering |
| Discography |
| Studio albums and EPs: Come on Pilgrim (EP) | Surfer Rosa | Doolittle | Bossanova | Trompe le Monde Pixies at the BBC | Complete 'B' Sides | Pixies (The Purple Tape) |
| Singles: "Gigantic" | "Monkey Gone to Heaven" | "Here Comes Your Man" | "Velouria" | "Dig for Fire" | "Planet of Sound" | "Letter to Memphis" | "Alec Eiffel" | "Head On" | "Debaser" | "Bam Thwok" |
| Compilation Albums: Death to the Pixies | Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies |
| Related bands |
| The Breeders | Frank Black and the Catholics | The Amps | The Martinis |
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Deal, Kimberly Ann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Deal, Kim; Murphy, Mrs. John |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Alternative rock musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dayton, Ohio, United States of America |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |