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Helicopter Girl
British musician

Helicopter Girl

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British musician
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Gender
Female
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Place of birth
Dundee, Dundee City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Age
56 years
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Biography

Helicopter Girl is the stage name of Jackie Joyce, a musician from Perth, Scotland. She was born in 1968 or 1969 to a Scottish mother and Ghanaian father.

Music career

Her first album was 2000's How to Steal the World, which was nominated for a Mercury Prize.Also, in 2001, she appeared on the Rod Stewart album, Human, performing with him on the track "Don't Come Around Here."

Joyce then took an extended break from the business before writing and recording her second album, Voodoo Chic, which featured the single "Angel City," and was released in 2004.The album Metropolitan was released in June 2008.It was preceded by the single "It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This".

Helicopter Girl's fourth album, Wanda Meant, was self-released on 1 April 2015.

A track in the album Ecohero by Ambisonic, a band she was a member of in 1997, featured a song called "Helicopter Kinda Girl".

Discography

Albums

  • How to Steal the World (Instant Karma Records, 2000)
  • Voodoo Chic (Dharma Records, 2004; (released in 2005 in the United States on Robbins Entertainment)
  • Metropolitan (Dharma Records, 2008)
  • Wanda Meant (Helicopter Girl Music, 2015)

Singles

  • 345 Wonderful (2000)
  • Subliminal Punk (2001)
  • Glove Compartment (2001)
  • Angel City (2004)
  • White Revolving Circles (2004)
  • Umbrellas in the Rain (2005)
  • It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This (2008)
  • Ballerina (2008)
  • It's Coming Up (2015)
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