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Front Row: Skunk Anansie's Skin on her new memoir

Skunk Anansie's Skin on her new memoir

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Skunk Anansie's Skin on her new memoir

Skin, the lead vocalist of British band Skunk Anansie, looks back over her life.

Skin, the shaven-headed lead vocalist of the British rock band Skunk Anansie, discusses her new memoir It Takes Blood and Guts.

Skin - the singer, songwriter, DJ and lead vocalist of the multi-million-selling British rock band Skunk Anansie - looks back over her life in her new memoir It Takes Blood and Guts.

Born to Jamaican parents, Skin - real name Deborah Dyer - grew up in Brixton in the 1970s which influenced her musical direction. The shaven-headed singer reflects on how a gay, black, working-class girl with a vision fought poverty and prejudice to write songs, produce and front her own band, headline Glastonbury, and become one of the most influential women in British rock. 

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Producer Jerome Weatherald

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