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Key facts
- Also known as
- PJ Harvey
- Born
- Polly Jean Harvey , ( 1969-10-09 ) 9 October 1969 (age 56) , Bridport , Dorset , England
- Origin
- Yeovil , Somerset , England
- Genres
- Alternative rock punk blues art rock indie rock folk rock avant-rock grunge punk rock
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar saxophone keyboards autoharp percussion
- Works
- PJ Harvey discography
- Years active
- 1988–present
- Labels
- Too Pure Indigo Island Vagrant Partisan
- Member of
- Automatic Dlamini The PJ Harvey band
- Website
- pjharvey .net
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Corscombe
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Mercury Prize
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- folk rock
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Record label
- Too Pure
- Official website
- www.pjharvey.net
- Image
- Glasto24 28 300624 (184 of 545) (53838002779) (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- soprano
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- Commons category
- PJ Harvey
- date of birth
- 1969-10-09
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- PJ Harvey
- name in native language
- PJ Harvey
- pseudonym
- PJ Harvey
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- social media followers
- 208000
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- Ferdinand Sander
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Encyclopedic overview
Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English singer and songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments.
Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini as a vocalist, guitarist and saxophonist. The band's frontman, John Parish, is still her long-term collaborator. In 1991, she formed a trio called PJ Harvey and this began her career as PJ Harvey. The trio released two studio albums called Dry (1992) and Rid of Me (1993) before disbanding, after which Harvey continued as a solo artist. Since 1995, she has released a further ten studio albums with collaborations from various musicians including Parish, former bandmate Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman, and has also worked extensively with record producer Flood.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PJ Harvey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.