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Биография "Kelli Ali"

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Kelli Ali singer and songwriter was born June 30th 1974 in England. As lead singer of Sneaker Pimps for the ’Becoming X’ album, Kelli became known for her unique vocals. After being dismissed from the band in 1998, Kelli changed her name from Kelli Dayton to Kelli Ali and embarked on a solo career, releasing albums ‘Tigermouth’ and ‘Psychic Cat’. Kelli’s most recent album, ‘Rocking Horse’ has received critical acclaim and was produced by composer Max Richter. — ‘Rocking Horse’ is a collection of dark modern dream folk songs.

In 2000 Kelli Ali signed a solo recording deal with One Little Indian Records and embarked on a diverse and explorative musical career, which has seen Kelli explore all kinds of musical genres in her endeavors to create original songs and music.

The Rocking Horse album which was released in November 2008 and was Produced by Max Richter (composer of The ‘Blue Notebook’ ‘Memory House’ and producer of Vashti Bunyan’s ‘Lookaftering’ album) is a change in musical direction from Kelli’s earlier records.

Her earlier solo albums, Tigermouth and Psychic Cat saw Kelli move from the trip-hop influences of her first successful band Sneaker Pimps, to a more dreampop electronic sound.

The Tigermouth album includes songs such as “Sunlight in the Rain” and “Kids,” which featured ex-Doors drummer John Densmore. Kelli toured with Garbage in 2003 and released her follow-up album, Psychic Cat, in mid-2004.
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Psychic Cat saw a return to Kelli’s electro/rock and roll roots, and featured musician turned author Tony O’Neill on keyboards and Andrew Innes of Primal Scream on the song ‘Ideal’.

Kelli’s collaborations include her co-writing The Paul Oakenfold (featuring Brittany Murphy) Hit song ‘Faster Kill Pussycat’, Satoshi Tomiie’s ‘Up in Flames’ and ‘Love in Traffic’ and Bootsy Collins’ ‘Play With Bootsy’ lead single track from his album ‘Play with Bootsy’, on which Kelli wrote and sang lead vocals.

After leaving London in 2005 to go traveling around Mexico and California, Kelli began learning to play the acoustic guitar and writing songs for what would become her Rocking Horse album. Inspired by the beauty of nature and her travels, Kelli wrote songs such as ‘One Day at a Time’ and ‘Urique’. Her new vocal approach and sparse arrangements creating the dream folk sound of Rocking Horse.

Kelli returned to the UK and began recording the Rocking Horse album with Max Richter in Scotland in Spring 2008.

Marc Pilley played the guitars on the record and Max Richter played the B3 organ and piano, with a quartet playing the string parts and Ruth Morley on flute.

In her live set, Kelli and her band combine cello, flute and acoustic guitar with Kelli’s ethereal vocals to interpret the songs from her Rocking Horse album and an original cover of Willows Song from the cult classic Wicker Man film soundtra

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