About Bilinda Butcher
Bilinda Jayne Butcher (born 16 September 1961) is an English musician who achieved international fame as a guitarist, vocalist and lyricist of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. Their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991) established Butcher as a pioneering figure in the shoegaze genre. Butcher was born and raised in London and later relocated with her family to Golden Valley, Derbyshire. She played classical guitar as a child and joined My Bloody Valentine in April 1987, initially as a backing vocalist, while they were still largely unknown. == Early life == Butcher was born and raised in London and later relocated with her parents and older sister Jo-Anne to Golden Valley, Derbyshire, a small hamlet in the countryside. Her forename is an alternate spelling of Belinda and was chosen by her mother. Butcher has been quoted as saying, "if I'd been a guy I would have been named Bill, but since I was a girl it became Bilinda". Butcher has said that growing up in Golden Valley she was considered "a weirdo" as she wore clothes based on 1920s fashion and listened to records on a portable gramophone. Butcher stated: "My mother thought I was up in the clouds. I never watched the news or read the papers; it was like I lived in another era.
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