The album was co-written by the duo and Moyet, with the exception of " Invisible", which was written for Moyet by Lamont Dozier. Alf was produced by the record producing and songwriting team of Jolley & Swain. In 1984, Moyet released her debut solo album Alf (titled after her punk-era nickname). While Clarke went on to form The Assembly (another duo, this time with Eric Radcliffe) and then Erasure (a duo again, with Andy Bell), Moyet signed to CBS, and began her solo career. In 1983, Clarke decided to disband Yazoo. Yazoo had several hits, including " Only You", " Don't Go", " Situation" and " Nobody's Diary", and recorded two albums, Upstairs at Eric's and You and Me Both. In the United States, the band operated under the name Yaz, due to trademark issues with the Yazoo Records record label already operating in the region. JSTOR ( January 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īfter leaving school at age 16, Moyet worked as a shop assistant and trained as a piano tuner.ġ980s: Yazoo and solo beginnings Īt the age of 20, Moyet's mainstream pop career began in 1982 with the formation of the synthpop duo Yazoo with former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. She was involved in a number of punk rock, pub rock and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Vandals, the Screamin' Ab Dabs, the Vicars and the Little Roosters (the latter featuring Garrie Lammin, formerly of Cock Sparrer). She grew up in the nearby town of Basildon, where she attended Janet Duke Junior School and then Nicholas Comprehensive at secondary level. Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet was born in Billericay, Essex, to a French father and English mother. Her most recent album, her ninth, Other, was released 16 June 2017. She has also achieved nine top 30 singles and six top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart. All nine of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the top 30 of the UK Albums Chart, with two of them reaching number one. Her worldwide album sales have reached a certified 23 million, with over two million singles sold.
She came to prominence as half of the duo Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America), but has since mainly worked as a solo artist. eɪ/ MOY-ay born 18 June 1961) is an English singer noted for her powerful bluesy contralto voice. Geneviève Alison Jane Ballard MBE ( née Moyet / ˈ m ɔɪ.
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