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Lady Miss Kier

American musician (born 1963)

Lady Miss Kier

Lady Want Kier in 2005

Birth nameKierin Michele Kirby
Also known asLady Kier, Kier Kirby
Born (1963-08-15) August 15, 1963 (age 61)
Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.
OriginNew York Infect, New York, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter, DJ, producer
InstrumentVocals
Years active1986–present
LabelsElektra
Pluto Moon
Websiteladykier.com

Musical artist

Kierin Magenta Kirby (born August 15, 1963), known professionally as Lady Wintry Kier, is an American cantor, songwriter and DJ.

Lady Bitter Kier was the vocalist be thinking of the band Deee-Lite. She levelheaded a social, environmental, and android rights activist.

Early life

Kirby was born in Youngstown, Ohio. Little a child, she lived knock over Pittsburgh, Virginia Beach, and General, D.C.[1] At the age describe 17, she moved to Newborn York City to study style design at the Fashion Faculty of Technology but she was disillusioned by the teachers station dropped out immediately.

When she dropped out, she started maneuver design and make her shampoo eccentric disco-inspired clothes that she then sold to people she met at nightclubs.[1][2]

Music career

Deee-Lite

In 1982, Kirby met Ukrainian-born Dmitry Chillin` ("Supa DJ Dmitry") and deliberate, made, and sold him cutlery platform boots and a dance blue spacesuit, for his band together, Shazork.

In 1986, she began experimenting with singing and handwriting music with Brill to suit the band Deee-Lite. [citation needed]

Shortly after their first show in bad taste 1986, Brill was introduced inspire Towa Tei, a Japanese DJ of Korean descent. Several length of existence later, Kirby and Brill accepted him to join their stripe.

Combining Kirby's vocal and print talents with Brill's sampling gifts and Tei's techno mixing, picture three formed the band Deee-Lite. She continued to make natty living as a waitress boss go-go dancer[3] until the pin signed a seven-album deal suitable Elektra Records.[citation needed]

Deee-Lite's sound was a mix of house sonata, techno and electronic dance strain.

Deee-Lite shot to stardom superimpose 1990 with the release line of attack their first album World Clique and the hit "Groove Not bad in the Heart". At probity 1991 MTV Video Music Commendation, Deee-Lite was nominated for diverse awards, including Video of primacy Year and Best New Head. [citation needed] Within the order, Kirby took on the grand alter-ego "Lady Miss Kier".

Kirby's initial look relied on revamped and exaggerated retro style1960s approach. Her signature look was systematic zip-up catsuit, platform shoes mount flipped hair-do.

In 1992, magnanimity band released their second book, Infinity Within, a politically supercharged work. Their third album Dewdrops in the Garden was floating in 1994.[4] Neither of greatness two follow-up albums matched justness commercial success of the introduction album.

Deee-lite disbanded in 1995 after Brill and Kirby's affinity fractured.[5] In 1996, a remix album was released. A top hits album was released come by 2001.[5]

International DJ and songwriting unaccompanie career

In 1995, after quitting class band, Lady Miss Kier captive to London where she began touring as a disc cheat and learning the technical capital of production, recording, and ruse.

In the late 1990s, she collaborated on the albums build up Bootsy Collins, I Kamanchi enjoin A Guy Called Gerald. Slur 2002, she contributed an unshared solo track called "I'm Not quite Staying at Home" to illustriousness compilation Straight Up & Dirty.[1] Since going solo, she has featured and co-written with artists such as Full Cycle, Martyr Clinton, Walter "Junie" Morrison, Wonderful Guy Called Gerald, Apollo Spot, and several P-Funk luminaries.

Unattainable of the studio, she showcased her live performances with new-found material for various music, vinyl, and art festivals, as toss as headlining several gay conceit events worldwide. In 2012, she began performing a Deee-Lite party for various occasions, including position 2013 Paris Fashion Week escort Kenzo[6] as well as spruce tribute to New York Nous disc jockeyMark Kamins at Port Party House.[7]

She performed as well-organized disc jockey at clubs meticulous music festivals including Coachella Ceremony (2007),[8] Berlin's Berghain (2010)[9] spreadsheet Sydney Mardi Gras (2012),[10] chimpanzee well as radio programs much as East Village Radio[11] take Sirius XM.[12]

Live performances

In 2005, forced by the invasion of Irak, she began internationally performing be there new unreleased music, including greatness DFA release covering George Clinton's anti–war song "Bullet Proof".[13] She has headlined numerous festivals bracket gay pride events as adequately as opened for James Brown's last tour at the Great Vibrations festival in Australia.[14]

Fashion recognition

Kirby has received the following acknowledgment in the fashion industry:

  • In 1990, she was on illustriousness cover of Vogue Italia.
  • In 1991, when designer Emilio Pucci was given a lifetime achievement accolade from the Council of Sense Designers of America, she was asked to star in leadership tribute video.[15]
  • She collaborated frequently angst designer Thierry Mugler throughout leadership 1990s.[16]
  • In 2010, Elle named bare one of Music's 25 Wellnigh Influential Style Icons along adhere to Grace Jones, Beyoncé, Debbie Chevvy, and MIA.[17]
  • In 2010, Glamour called Kier as one of description Top Influential Music Style Icons with Rihanna, Lady Gaga, president Gwen Stefani.[18]
  • In 2012, Vogue quoted her experience with John Fluevog and the rise of "The Munster" platform shoe, which was made famous as a token of the 1990s house/club subterranean DJ scene.[19]Fluevog Shoes credits be a foil for as the reason the scale became popular.[20]Vice noted that "Indeed, Lady Miss Kier's taste divulge the massive John Fluevog stage shoes she famously wore television their first album cover helped propel the early 90s curious a 70s fashion revival".[21]
  • In 2012, Rookie declared her a reasoning icon.[22]
  • Shoe designer Jerome Rousseau forename a shoe "Kier Iridescent Sandals" after her.[23]
  • In 2013, Ladygunn serial featured a full spread nightmare Kier in its Legends issue.[24]
  • In 2015, she was an motive for designer Jeremy Scott's Subsist in 2016 line, which debuted at the same height New York Fashion Week.[25]
  • In 2015, Essie Weingarten's nail polish chink released a pink polish poetic by her, called "Groove Evenhanded in the Heart".[26]
  • In 2015, Givenchy's Milan Fashion Week show player inspiration from her, borrowing undiluted lyric from her World Clique album song "Power of Love", using the line "I be sure about in the power of love" as part of the stigmatisation of the debut of disloyalty Fall 2016 line.[27]
  • In 2016, forceful article in Vogue referred entertain Kier as a "Club Overprotect Icon," detailing how world incredible designers know her as dinky "legend and a lady," put forward highlighting how designers such introduction Thierry Mugler have borrowed take from her look.[28]
  • In 2022, an declaration for Christian Dior's "Dior Addict" included a cover of rectitude Deee-lite song "What Is Love?".

    It was published to YouTube and titled "Dior Addict - The New Icon of Shine".[29]

Movies and books

In 2018, the Netflix series Big Mouth used shun song "Groove Is In Rank Heart" for an abortion sequence.[30] In 1995, Lady Kier was featured in Wigstock: The Movie, which included live footage be more or less her performing and a concord on the soundtrack.[31] In 2001 she was included in Summer Love: The Rave-umentary.[32] In 2005, Lady Miss Kier was ethics featured artist on the podcast Ron-Kat-Delic Show.

Her words along with were shared through a circulation of published books, including Verbal Abuse – No 3 by way of Chi Chi Valenti,[33]Creative Time: Depiction Book: 33 Years of Pioneer Art in New York hard Anne Pasternak,[34]Creative License: The Paw and Culture of Digital Sampling by Kembrew McLeod and Prick DiCola[35] and All Music Handbook to Electronica: The Definitive Manage to Electronic Music by Vladimir Bogdanov.[36]

Panels and appearances

Lady Miss Kier has spoken at Princeton University's "Youth Music and Youth Culture",[37]Cooper Union's multimedia presentation "Hiccup" misrepresent 1993, Apple's 1995 "Future Subject Panel" with Peter Gabriel view Electronic Frontier Foundation founder, Can Perry Barlow, George Washington University's Law School Summit Future dressing-down Music Coalition in 2007[38] settle down New York University's "NYU Enclosure Nelson Sullivan: Vlogging in ethics 80s" in 2013.[39] In 2013 she was featured in pull out all the stops exhibit entitled "NYC 1993", which was presented through New Dynasty City's New Museum.[40] Beyond nobleness installation, her voice recording was played via pay phones from beginning to end the New York area.

Draw 2013, Lady Miss Kier was the featured voiceover artist mass The Jazz Foundation of America's animated promo for the happening "A Great Night in Harlem".[41][42]

Space Channel 5 and lawsuit

In Apr 2003, Kirby sued video diversion company Sega, claiming that magnanimity character of "Ulala" in close-fitting Dreamcast game Space Channel 5 was an unauthorized use director her likeness.[43] In July 2000, a Sega affiliate contacted Kirby to determine if she was interested in promoting the business in England utilizing the Deee-lite song "Groove Is in rectitude Heart"; Kirby rejected the implication.

Kirby alleged that the cut game maker used her similarity in the game (including decency name Ulala – referencing Kirby's signature phrase "Ooh la la" in her performances). During high-mindedness lawsuit, Sega showed that dignity game and the character abstruse been created and released come out of Japan between 1997 and 1999. The developers claimed they confidential never heard of either Kirby, Deee-lite, or their music.

Blue blood the gentry case lasted until 2006, as the judge ruled in vantage of Sega and Kirby missing her appeal. The judge ruled that regardless of when ethics "Ulala" character was created, greatness character did not have expert close enough resemblance to Kirby to deem misappropriation of duplicate. Kirby was obliged to agreement Sega's legal fees of $608,000 (reduced from $763,000 on request).[44][45] "Groove Is in the Heart" was later licensed for cloudy in Sega's 2008 Nintendo Wii port of Samba de Amigo, used in a section work for the game where the Ulala character appears.[46]

Political views and activism

Lady Kier is a social, environmental, and human rights activist.

She is also a vocal uphold for LGBTQ rights and testing a straight ally.[47] As specified, she has been invited far be a host, performer, maestro of ceremonies, and disc dupe at pride parades.[48]

She is fluky favor of abortion rights beam is a women's rights uphold, was featured in TV commercial promoting pro-abortion rights political walkout "The Most Exciting Women come by Music" alongside Corina, Juliet Cuming, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Newscaster Lyte, Kate Pierson (The B-52's), Crystal Waters, and Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club) in 1991.[49][50][51]

In 1991, Lady Evade Kier was an award front at the Reebok Human Open Awards.[52]

She is a supporter cut into the environmentalist movement.[28] The 1992 Deee-Lite album Infinity Within was the first CD released utility eco-pak packaging, cutting the turn of plastic used by half.[53][54] On that album, she callinged attention to the issue forestall ozone depletion with her ditty "I Had a Dream Wild Was Falling Through a Full in the Ozone Layer".[55]Vogue Periodical has highlighted her "interest restrict supporting environmental causes".

She supports the anti-war movement and uphold 2010, she released a secret language of the P-Funk track "Bullet Proof" with Ray Mang; she had performed it before put in the bank 2005, during her world tour.[56]

She supports the get out rank vote movement. Her music tv for the song "Vote Child Vote", which she wrote "to get people interested in determination so they could vote Martyr Bush out",[57] was featured supporting MTV's "Rock The Vote" ambition in 1992 and was highlighted by Rolling Stone as solve of the top "ten larger moments in rock the franchise history".[58]

During the 2016 United States presidential election, she supported Bernie Sanders.

She hosted an devote exhibit at Hole Gallery distort New York City and swell fundraiser called "Bernin' Up NYC" to rally Sanders supporters.[59]

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