About Alison Moyet
Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet MBE , formerly known as Alf, is an English singer. Noted for her powerful bluesy contralto voice, she came to prominence as half of the synth-pop duo Yazoo , but has since mainly worked as a solo artist.
By June 2023 her worldwide album sales have reached a certified 23 million, with over two million singles sold. All of Moyet's ten studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the top 30 of the UK Albums Chart, with two of them reaching number one, and she has had many top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart.
Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet was born on 18 June 1961 in Basildon, Essex, to a French father and English mother. She did not grow up bilingual, but spoke "Franglais", and was called Alison from a young age.
She grew up in the nearby town of Basildon, where she attended Janet Duke Junior School and then Nicholas Comprehensive at secondary level, where she was in the same sixth form class as future Depeche Mode members Andrew Fletcher and Martin Gore.
She was involved in a number of punk rock, pub rock, and blues bands in the southeast Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Vandals, the Screamin' Ab Dabs, the Vicars, and the Little Roosters. After leaving school at age 16, Moyet worked as a shop assistant and trained as a piano tuner.
At the age of 20, Moyet's mainstream pop career began in 1982 with the formation of the synth-pop duo Yazoo with former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke. 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. 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.
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