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Alison Statton (born March 1958)〔Larkin, Colin (1995) ''The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Guinness Publishing, ISBN 978-1-56159-176-3, p. 4419〕 is a Welsh singer best known for her work with Young Marble Giants. Fans of the singer have included Kurt Cobain,〔True, Everett (2006) ''Nirvana: The True Story'', Omnibus Press, ISBN 978-1-84449-640-2〕 Courtney Love, Belle and Sebastian and Renato Russo. ==Musical career== Born in Cardiff, Statton's career in music began in 1978 as the singer for the band Young Marble Giants.〔Burt, Stephen (1995) "(In Search of ... Young Marble Giants )", ''CMJ New Music Monthly'', February 1995, pp. 18–19〕 After Young Marble Giants split up in 1981, she formed the jazz-influenced band Weekend with Simon Emmerson (Booth) and Spike Williams, releasing the album ''La Varieté'' in 1982 and a live EP, ''Live at Ronnie Scott's'', the following year.〔〔Paul, John (2014) "(Weekend ''The '81 Demos'' )", PopMatters, 18 April 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2015〕 Statton returned to Cardiff and trained to be a chiropractor while teaching t'ai chi.〔 She returned to music in the late 1980s and released two recordings with the guitarist from Ludus, Ian Devine as 'Devine and Statton', ''The Prince of Wales'' (1989) and ''Cardiffians'' (1990).〔Hage, Erik "(Devine & Statton Biography )", Allmusic. Retrieved 25 November 2015〕〔Graf, Christian; Voigt, Sven (2003) ''Punk! Das Lexicon'', Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Germany, p. 652〕〔Kaplan, Matthew "(Alison Statton )", ''Trouser Press''. Retrieved 25 November 2015〕 After working with Devine, she released several records with Spike in the 1990s, starting with ''Weekend in Wales'' (1993).〔〔〔"(Staff Selections; Heavy Rotation )", ''Spin'', May 1994, p. 24. Retrieved 25 November 2015〕 Young Marble Giants reunited for a number of live performances during 2007-9 in Barcelona, Paris, Vigo, Porto, Berlin, The Hay Festival, ATP Festival and Belgium. Further gigs followed in 2012 and 2013. Statton's singing has been called "coolly unadorned",〔 cool and dispassionate,〔Young, Rob (2006) ''Rough Trade'', Black Dog Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-1-904772-47-7, p. 176〕 and ghostly and fragile,〔Bonini, Alessandro; Tamagnini, Emanuele (2006) ''New Wave'', Gremese Editore, Italy, ISBN 978-88-8440-412-1, p. 195〕 with a "shy, singsong delivery".〔''Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists'', Scribner, ISBN 978-1-4165-9473-4, p. 162〕 Her vocal style is considered influential on many of the indie pop artists that followed.〔 She presently works as a chiropractor.〔Eccleston, Danny (2015) "(Young Marble Giants Relive Their Colossal Youth )", ''Mojo'', 7 August 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alison Statton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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