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Fad Gadget was the pseudonym used by British musician, synthesizer pioneer, and performance artist Frank Tovey - an influential electronic music/New Wave artist throughout his career- from 1979 until 1984. Tovey began his musical career after studying performance art at Leeds Polytechnic, but started recording upon his move back to his native London, UK. The songs of his early career (under the pseudonym) all feature synthesizers plus, sometimes, machine sounds like that of an electric razor or
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frank
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Leeds Beckett University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Mute Records
- Official website
- www.fadgadget.co.uk
- Image
- Frank tovey as fad gadget in paradiso 16 january 2002-1629195351.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1956-00-00
- date of death
- 2002-00-00
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- Commons category
- Frank Tovey
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