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Alannah Currie is a New Zealand musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. She is best known as the drummer and vocalist of the British new wave band Thompson Twins. She has also released several solo albums and collaborated with other artists.
Currie was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and moved to England in 1979. She joined the Thompson Twins in 1981 and remained with the band until they disbanded in 1993. During her time with the band, she wrote and co-wrote several of their songs, including "Hold Me Now" and "Doctor! Doctor!".
After the Thompson Twins disbanded, Currie released her first solo album, Tongue, in 1995. She has since released two more solo albums, The Very Best of Alannah Currie (2000) and The Very Best of Alannah Currie, Vol. 2 (2005). She has also collaborated with other artists, including the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, and the Eurythmics.
Currie is currently working on a new solo album, which is due for release in 2021. She is also working on a new project with her husband, musician and producer Steve Lipson.
| Popular As |
Alannah Joy Currie |
| Occupation |
Singer-songwriter · artist · designer |
| Age |
66 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo |
| Born |
20 September, 1957 |
| Birthday |
20 September |
| Birthplace |
Auckland, New Zealand |
| Nationality |
New Zealand |
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Alannah Currie Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Alannah Currie's Husband?
Her husband is Tom Bailey (m. 1991–2004)
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| Husband |
Tom Bailey (m. 1991–2004) |
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Alannah Currie Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Alannah Currie worth at the age of 66 years old? Alannah Currie’s income source is mostly from being a successful Musician. She is from New Zealand. We have estimated
Alannah Currie's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
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Under Review |
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| Source of Income |
Musician |
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In 2004 she returned to London where she now works under the name Miss Pokeno and continues to make art that fuses ″joyful dissent″ with disruptive/uncomfortable narratives. Her practice plays on the boundary between the humorous and threatening, as with the (semi-) mythological militant feminists The Sisters of Perpetual Resistance and the Armchair Destructivists.
By 1992, Currie and her husband, fellow Thompson Twins band member Tom Bailey, elected to form Babble, featuring Currie as lyricist, percussionist and visual artist, as a means of creating music without the commercial expectations that were placed on the Thompson Twins. By 1994 Babble had released their first album. Currie later returned to New Zealand working primarily as a glass artist and environmental activist. She was founder of the women's anti-genetic engineering movement Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment (MAdGE). In 2004 she designed a series of protest billboards that caused controversy in New Zealand but won several international art/science awards.
Her songwriting credits also include "I Want That Man", an international hit for Deborah Harry in 1989.
In 1984 the band participated in the "first international satellite installation" by Nam June Paik, Good Morning, Mr. Orwell.
In 1981, Currie joined Tom Bailey, Joe Leeway, and others to form part of the Thompson Twins, the line-up of which included up to seven members in its early days. The Thompson Twins became a trio in 1982 and signed two major record contracts with Arista Records before signing with Warner Bros. Records. Currie was a lyricist, percussionist, visual stylist and singer in the band and co-wrote and recorded 6 albums which included gold and platinum records and the hits "Doctor! Doctor!", "Hold Me Now", and "You Take Me Up". The band performed at the JFK Stadium, Philadelphia for the 1985 Live Aid concert and worked with artists including Nile Rodgers, Madonna, Grace Jones, Alex Sadkin and Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads amongst others.
Born in New Zealand and trained as a journalist, Currie emigrated to the UK in 1977. Currie squatted in various places in South West London, ending up in Lillieshall Road, Clapham Old Town. In 1979, with her across-the-road neighbour, Trace Newton-Ingham (Traci Newton), she co-founded the dread-punk-improvising group, The Unfuckables. The Unfuckables performed one "gig" at an anti-psychiatry conference in early 1980, held in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. For this particular gig the group comprised the two co-founders, plus an array of musicians from London's "underground" music scene — Viv Albertine (The Slits), Gareth Sager (The Pop Group), Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward (This Heat), Tom Bailey (of Thompson Twins, whom she would later marry), Jimmy Cauty (later of The KLF, and her current husband) and improviser Steve Beresford, amongst others.
Alannah Joy Currie (born 20 September 1957, in Auckland, New Zealand) is a London-based artist and musician, best known as a former member of the 80s UK pop group Thompson Twins.
