Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (born 27 January 1968), better known by his stage name Tricky, is a British record producer and rapper.
I'm never going back". ==Career== ===1987–94: The Wild Bunch, Massive Attack=== In the mid-1980s, Tricky met DJ Milo and spent time with a sound system called the Wild Bunch, which by 1987 evolved into Massive Attack.
I've got quite a dysfunctional family....for some reason, in my family, the mothers always give the kids to the grandmothers". Tricky has fourteen paternal siblings. He was in a brief relationship with Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk in the 1990s.
He also rapped on Massive Attack's acclaimed debut album Blue Lines (1991). In 1991, before the release of Massive Attack's album Blue Lines, he met Martina Topley-Bird in Bristol.
So in 1993 he decided to press a few hundred vinyl copies of the song.
He embarked on a solo career with his debut album, Maxinquaye, in 1995.
In 1995, a white label got him a contract with Island Records and he started to record his first solo album, Maxinquaye. ===1995–2001: Solo breakthrough=== Tricky left Massive Attack to release his debut album Maxinquaye, co-produced by himself and Mark Saunders and prominently featured singer Martina Topley-Bird.
I think she cared about me, right?" He was also briefly married to Carmen Ejogo in early 1998 in Las Vegas. Tricky fathered a daughter, Mina Mazy, on 19 March 1995 with Martina Topley-Bird, a musician he discovered when she was sitting on a wall near his Bristol home.
He released four more studio albums before the end of the decade, including Pre-Millennium Tension and the pseudonymous Nearly God, both in 1996.
At the age of 15, he began to write lyrics ("I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants" MixMag, 1996).
Tricky found it difficult to cope with the huge success of Maxinquaye and subsequently eschewed the laid-back soul sound of the first album to create an increasingly edgy and aggressive punk style of music. In 1996, Neneh Cherry and Björk appeared as guests on his second album Nearly God.
Tricky's next album, Fall to Pieces, is scheduled for release in September. ==Idiosyncrasies and media issues== By the time Pre-Millennium Tension was released in 1996, Tricky was increasingly irritated with the British press, particularly articles written in The Face magazine.
He appeared in a significant supporting role in the 1997 Luc Besson film The Fifth Element, playing the right-hand man "Right Arm" to evil businessman Mr.
He was also rumoured to have a brief cameo in John Woo's 1997 movie Face/Off, but has denied that this was the case, although his single "Christiansands" was featured in the movie.
I think she cared about me, right?" He was also briefly married to Carmen Ejogo in early 1998 in Las Vegas. Tricky fathered a daughter, Mina Mazy, on 19 March 1995 with Martina Topley-Bird, a musician he discovered when she was sitting on a wall near his Bristol home.
He has gone on to release nine studio albums since 2000, most recently Fall to Pieces (2020).
The opening number was a cover of the Siouxsie and the Banshees pre-trip-hop song "Tattoo" that had previously inspired Tricky when he forged his style. In 2001, Tricky appeared on the Thirteen Ghosts soundtrack with the song "Excess" which (briefly) features Alanis Morissette during two of the choruses.
Tricky also appeared as Finn, a musician who loves & dumps main character Lynn in the US sitcom Girlfriends. In 2001, Tricky appeared in online advertising for the web series We Deliver, about a cannabis delivery service in New York City.
In 2002 that song also appeared on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack. ===2002–11: Mixed Race and other work=== Tricky's studio album Knowle West Boy was released in the UK and Ireland in July 2008, and September 2008 in the US.
Zorg. He also appears briefly in the 2004 Olivier Assayas film Clean, playing himself, and had a large role in the music video for "Parabol/Parabola" by Tool.
In 2002 that song also appeared on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack. ===2002–11: Mixed Race and other work=== Tricky's studio album Knowle West Boy was released in the UK and Ireland in July 2008, and September 2008 in the US.
I wanted to be a proper frontman on that one." In an interview with The Skinny in July 2008, Tricky mentioned that Knowle West Boy was the first album for which he decided to enlist a co-producer.
However, Tricky also stated in June 2013 that he could not spend more than two or three days with Massive Attack and described band member Daddy G as "very arrogant". Tricky's ninth album Mixed Race was released on 27 September 2010 and the first single from the album became available on 23 August.
The album is the follow up from his 2010 Mixed Race and featured Peter Silberman, Fifi Rong and Nneka.
She had previously worked with Beak in 2010.
The album includes contributions from Franky Riley, Terry Lynn, Bobby Gillespie, Hamadouche, Blackman and Tricky's youngest brother Marlon Thaws. In June 2011, Tricky's then label Brownpunk signed on Mexican band My Black Heart Machine for one single, "It Beats Like This", which Tricky co-produced.
"It Beats Like This" was released independently by the band on their first EP in April 2013. Tricky produced rapper Omni's album IamOmni (produced by Tricky) (released under the moniker IamOmni) that was available from 30 August 2011 as a free download on Omni's official site. ===2011–present: False Idols, live events, Ununiform=== On 26 June 2011, Tricky appeared on stage during Beyoncé's headline slot on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury for the track "Baby Boy".
Bristol musician Bunny Marrett claimed in 2012, "It became the most popular sound system in Bristol at the time." Tricky experienced a difficult childhood in Knowle West, an economically deprived area in Southern Bristol.
My body just froze". In April 2012, Tricky performed Maxinquaye with Martina Topley-Bird at several concerts around the UK including, for the first time in several years in his home town of Bristol.
We saw Tricky a couple of weeks ago in Paris and it was quite an amicable meeting after five or six years." Tricky agreed to record with the band and he revealed in a June 2013 interview that "there's a couple of songs which are OK, which are really good actually to be honest with you".
However, Tricky also stated in June 2013 that he could not spend more than two or three days with Massive Attack and described band member Daddy G as "very arrogant". Tricky's ninth album Mixed Race was released on 27 September 2010 and the first single from the album became available on 23 August.
"It Beats Like This" was released independently by the band on their first EP in April 2013. Tricky produced rapper Omni's album IamOmni (produced by Tricky) (released under the moniker IamOmni) that was available from 30 August 2011 as a free download on Omni's official site. ===2011–present: False Idols, live events, Ununiform=== On 26 June 2011, Tricky appeared on stage during Beyoncé's headline slot on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury for the track "Baby Boy".
The review of the concert in Manchester said it was "shambolic" and a "car crash" with Tricky often leaving the stage and continuously forgetting his words, leaving Topley Bird to carry the delivery of the tracks, resulting in many leaving early after repeated issues with Tricky's behaviour and shouts of "wanker" from the crowd. In February 2013, Tricky announced the release of a new album, False Idols.
At the time, Tricky said: "Brown Punk represents a positive movement where you find intellectuals mixing with the working class, rock mixing with reggae and indie mixing with emo." The Dirty, The Gospel, Laid Blak Mexican band My Black Heart Machine were acts that were signed to the label, but as of October 2013, the label appears to be inactive. ==Personal life== Tricky has stated that he has "been through a lot...
If people don't like it, it don't matter to me because I'm back where I was." In spring 2014, it was announced that Tricky is to perform at a number of festivals throughout Europe over the summer of 2014, including Control Day Out in Romania, festival Couleur Café in Belgium, Positivus Festival in Latvia and Galtres Parklands Festival in England, the latter of which he co-headlines with contemporaries Morcheeba. Tricky announced a new album titled Adrian Thaws in June 2014.
It was released on 8 September 2014.
In 2016, he joined Massive Attack on stage for the first time in two decades while continuing his solo career. Tricky is a pioneer of trip hop music, and his work is noted for its dark, layered musical style that blends disparate cultural influences and genres, including [hop music|hip hop], alternative rock and ragga.
Skilled Mechanics was released in January 2016.
The same month was released a song Tricky had written with 3D from Massive Attack, on the band's EP Ritual Spirit. His thirteenth official studio album, ununiform, was released on 22 September 2017, and featured collaborations with Asia Argento, Avalon Lurks, and Martina Topley-Bird, as well as a cover of Hole's "Doll Parts". Blink, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired Tricky's autobiography.
The book is currently untitled and will sell as a £20 Hardback in October 2019. His EP 20,20 was released on 6 March 2020.
Mazy struggled with depression and took her own life on 8 May 2019.
The book is currently untitled and will sell as a £20 Hardback in October 2019. His EP 20,20 was released on 6 March 2020.
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