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My Take
Tracey Thorn is one of those artists I respect more the longer I look at her career. As the voice of Everything but the Girl, she helped define a whole mood of intimate, literate pop, and the fact that the duo went quiet for over two decades before returning in 2022 tells me she never treated music as a treadmill. What I find genuinely unusual is the second act as a writer, the books, essays and columns. Plenty of musicians dabble; few become real authors. Born in 1962 in Hertfordshire and educated at Hull, she strikes me as someone who values the sentence as much as the song.
Overview
Tracey Thorn (born 26 September 1962) is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl, active from 1982 to 2000, and again from 2022. She was in the band Marine Girls from 1980 to 1983. She has, at several junctures of her career, recorded and released albums as a solo artist, and has also written books, essays and columns.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Tracey Thorn
- Name (Japanese)
- トレイシー・ソーン
- Reading
- とれいしー・そーん
- Born
- September 26, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Tiger
- Origin
- Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / singer-songwriter / guitarist / columnist / composer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Hull
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.