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Outlook: Skin: the scream that made me a rock star

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18/11/2020 GMT

Skin: the scream that made me a rock star

BBC World Service - Outlook, Skin: the scream that made me a rock star

How Skin, lead singer of the ground-breaking British band, Skunk Anansie, found her voice

How shy girl Deborah Dyer found the power to become Skin, lead singer of the ground-breaking British band, Skunk Anansie

Skin is the lead singer of Skunk Anansie, the multiplatinum-selling band whose political, in-your-face music stood out from the 1990s UK music scene. Skin had to forge her own path as a black, queer woman in the white male world of rock music, describing how she grew from a painfully shy church girl into a performer famous for her screaming vocals and bold stage antics. The turning point in her life was deciding to confront an aggressive sexual predator who had been stalking her - giving her a 'fearlessness that never left'.
 
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