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Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp performing at the Wireless Festival in June 2006
Background information
Origin	England
Genre(s)	Electropop Electronica Synthpop Ambient
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	1993–present
Label(s)	Mute Records
Associated acts	Goldfrapp
Website	www.goldfrapp.com

Alison Goldfrapp (born Alison Goldfrap) is an English singer-songwriter. Goldfrapp was born in Enfield, London and raised in Alton, Hampshire, the youngest of six children. At age 19, she moved to Belgium to work as a singer for a theatrical composer and on her return to England, attended Middlesex University's School Of Art, where she studied Fine Art. It was at Middlesex that she was discovered by Orbital during a now infamous show in which she milked a cow while yodelling.

After acquiring her degree from Middlesex, Goldfrapp toured internationally with British rapper Tricky, appearing on his album Maxinquaye. Her mainstream success began when she started collaborating with film composer Will Gregory under the name Goldfrapp.

Goldfrapp (with cropped peroxide blonde hair) made an early acting appearance in Your Night Tonight, the 1988 graduation film of colleague Paul Gilbert.

Alison is famously reluctant to reveal her true age, although speculation has put her date of birth as early as 1960 or as late as 1971. Her birthday is thought to be May 13. In a 2006 interview with Q Magazine, she said she was 37. In an interview on TRL UK in 2005, Alison said she was born in the Chinese year of the horse. If this is true, the most likely candidate year is 1966. In a video podcast, a fan asked, "How old are you? I heard you were 37, but that is impossible. I thought late 20s?" Alison responded, "You never ask how old she is, it's very rude.... And yes, I'm only 24."

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• Alison sang the harmony vocals on Paul Castle's theme song for Jane Hissey's "Old Bear Stories", a children's TV series originally on ITV, but later seen on Channel 5.
• Alison is credited as contributing to the Add N To X album Avant Hard. Although no specific track is mentioned, it is most likely to be the vocals on 'Revenge of the Black Regent' and the song 'Oh Yeah, Oh No'.
• Her earliest studio recordings are with the band Dreadzone on the 1993 album 360°.

• Interview from Q, issue 231, October 2005
• Old Bear Stories TV Theme Song

• Last.FM: Alison Goldfrapp group
• Alison Goldfrapp at Discogs
• Alison Goldfrapp discography at MusicBrainz
• Goldfrapp at All Music Guide
• Alison Goldfrapp at the Internet Movie Database

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