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[[File:Skin Eska Music Awards.jpg|thumb|Skin in 2011]]'''Skin''' (Deborah Anne Dyer, born 1967) is a singer, lead vocalist of the band Skunk Anansie.
[[File:Skin Eska Music Awards.jpg|thumb|Skin in 2011]]'''Skin''' (Deborah Anne Dyer, born 1967) is a singer, lead vocalist of the band Skunk Anansie.


She was born and brought up in [[Brixton]] and studied Interior Design at [[Teesside University]] in [[Middlesbrough]].  
She was born and brought up in [[Brixton]] <ref> "As a young person she turned up at the [[Black Young Lesbian Group]]
and attended the Girls and Young Women's Music camp". Conversation Maureen Hand with [[Clifford Williams]] 8 April 2019 </ref>. She studied Interior Design at [[Teesside University]] in [[Middlesbrough]].  


:“I see myself as an artist more than a musician, not only because I play guitar worse than a deaf camel, but because being in a band has always required a lot more skills than just songwriting and singing.”<ref>http://www.skinmusic.net/bio/skin</ref>
:“I see myself as an artist more than a musician, not only because I play guitar worse than a deaf camel, but because being in a band has always required a lot more skills than just songwriting and singing.”<ref>http://www.skinmusic.net/bio/skin</ref>
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Skin was ranked number 94 in the [[Pride Power List 2011]].<ref>http://www.timeout.com/london/events/the-pride-power-list-2011-1#bestOf-71</ref>
Skin was ranked number 94 in the [[Pride Power List 2011]].<ref>http://www.timeout.com/london/events/the-pride-power-list-2011-1#bestOf-71</ref>
"It Takes Blood and Guts" is the memoir of Skin, co-written with acclaimed music journalist Lucy O'Brien, and published in 2021.


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Latest revision as of 13:10, 10 July 2026

Skin in 2011

Skin (Deborah Anne Dyer, born 1967) is a singer, lead vocalist of the band Skunk Anansie.

She was born and brought up in Brixton [1]. She studied Interior Design at Teesside University in Middlesbrough.

“I see myself as an artist more than a musician, not only because I play guitar worse than a deaf camel, but because being in a band has always required a lot more skills than just songwriting and singing.”[2]

Skin is openly bisexual.[3]

Skin was ranked number 94 in the Pride Power List 2011.[4]

"It Takes Blood and Guts" is the memoir of Skin, co-written with acclaimed music journalist Lucy O'Brien, and published in 2021.


References

  1. "As a young person she turned up at the Black Young Lesbian Group and attended the Girls and Young Women's Music camp". Conversation Maureen Hand with Clifford Williams 8 April 2019
  2. http://www.skinmusic.net/bio/skin
  3. http://archives.thedaily.washington.edu/1995/113095/skin.html Tricia Romano, "Skin and no bones about it" The University of Washington Student Newspaper 30 November 1995 Accessed 16 February 2007. Archived by the Web Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20070216064751/http://archives.thedaily.washington.edu/1995/113095/skin.html
  4. http://www.timeout.com/london/events/the-pride-power-list-2011-1#bestOf-71