Kim Deal

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Kimberley Ann Deal (born June 10, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter.

She rose to prominence as bassist and co-vocalist in the alternative rock band Pixies, before forming The Breeders in 1989. Deal joined Pixies in January 1986, adopting the stage name Mrs. John Murphy for the albums Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa.

Following Doolittle and the Pixies' hiatus, she formed the Breeders with Tanya Donelly, Josephine Wiggs, and Britt Walford.

Following the band's debut album Pod, her twin sister Kelley Deal joined, replacing Tanya Donelly. Pixies broke up in early 1993, and Deal returned her focus to the Breeders, who released the platinum-selling album Last Splash in 1993, with the hit single "Cannonball".

In 1994, the Breeders went into hiatus after her sister Kelley entered drug rehabilitation.

During the band's hiatus, Deal adopted the stage name Tammy Ampersand and formed the short-lived rock band the Amps, recording a single album, Pacer in 1995.

After her own stint in drug rehabilitation, Deal eventually reformed the Breeders with a new line-up for the two more albums, Title TK in 2002 and Mountain Battles in 2008.

During that time, she would also return to Pixies when the band reunited in 2004.

In 2013, Deal announced she was leaving Pixies to concentrate on making new material with The Breeders, after the band's most famous line-up (Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson had rejoined the band for the first time since 1995) had reunited for a new series of tours celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band's hit album Last Splash. In 2018, The Breeders released their fifth album All Nerve, the first album to reunite the band's most famous line-up (Kim and Kelley, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson) since the release of 1993's Last Splash.

Early life

Deal was born in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Her father was a laser physicist who worked at the nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Kim and her identical twin sister Kelley were introduced to music at a young age; the two sang to a "two-track, quarter-inch, tape" when they were "four or five" years old, and grew up listening to hard rock bands such as AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. When Deal was 11, she learned Roger Miller's "King of the Road" on the acoustic guitar. In high school, at Wayne High School in Huber Heights, she was a cheerleader and often got into conflicts with authority. "We were popular girls," Kelley explained. "We got good grades and played sports." Still, growing up in Dayton was "like living in Russia", according to Deal. A friend of Kelley's living in California used to send them cassettes of artists like James Blood Ulmer, The Undertones, Elvis Costello, Sex Pistols and Siouxsie and the Banshees. "These tapes were our most treasured possession, the only link with civilization."

As a teenager, she formed a folk rock band with her sister. She then became a prolific songwriter, as she found it easier to write songs than cover them. Deal later commented on her songwriting output: "I got like a hundred songs when I was like 16, 17 ... The music is pretty good, but the lyrics are just like, OH MY GOD. We were just trying to figure out how blue rhymes with you. When I was writing them, they didn't have anything to do with who I was." The Deals bought microphones, an eight-track tape recorder, a mixer, speakers, and amps for a bedroom studio. According to Kelley, they "had the whole thing set up by the time we were 17." They later bought a drum machine "so it would feel like we were more in a band."

Following high school, Deal went to seven different colleges, including Ohio State University, but did not graduate from any of them. She eventually received an associate degree in medical technology from Kettering College of Medical Arts and took several jobs in cellular biology, including working in a hospital laboratory and a biochemical lab.

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Musical career

After answering an advertisement in the Boston Phoenix that read, "Band needs bassist," the bassist converts the bassist into Hüsker Dü and Mary, Deal became the Pixies' bassist and back vocalist in January 1986. Please, no chops." Even though she was the only one to call them, Deal was the only one to call them. She borrowed her sister Kelley's bass guitar to play in the band. To complete the line, she suggested that they use David Lovering as the drummer, a friend of her husband, whom she met at her wedding reception. In the liner notes, Deal used the appel de disque "Mrs. John Murphy" for the band's first album Come on Pilgrim (1987). After speaking with a lady who wanted to be identified solely by her husband's name as a mark of honor, she chose the word as an ironic feminist joke.

Deal, born in 1988, played lead vocals on the album's only song, "Gigantic," co-written with Black Francis. Doolittle performed on slide guitar a year later, with Deal contributing the song "Silver" and appearing on slide guitar. However, by this time, tensions between her and Francis had emerged between the two families, with bickering and standoffs between the two bands marring the album's recording sessions. The band members' tensions soared as a result of this. During the sessions, Deal said that it went from just having fun to work. Particularly between Francis and Deal, exhaustion from releasing three records in two years as well as constant touring contributed to the tumultuousness.

The heat and exhaustion culminated at the end of the US "Fuck or Fight" tour, where they were too drained to attend the end-of-tour party. The band announced a hiatus shortly.

Deal began to write new material on a 1988 post-Surfer Rosa tour of Europe with Throwing Muses as part of the Pixies. Deal discussed potential side-projects with Throwing Muses guitarist Tanya Donnelly, although neither band had plans for the short run. After being turned off the possibility of releasing a dance album together, the pair formed a new band. Since the folk band she formed with Kelley as a child, the Breeders were recruited by Ed's Redeeming Qualities to record a short demo tape, the band The Breeders were named.

The Breeders' demo was sent to Ivo Watts-Russell, who promptly signed them to the organisation. The Breeders allowed Deal to become more popular in songwriting, and their debut album, Pod (1990), which featured mainly Deal-written tracks, was recorded in Edinburgh, Scotland by Steve Albini. Contemporaries lauded Pod and especially Deal's contribution; Kurt Cobain, a Nirvana frontman, later described the album as one of his favorites and remarked: "I wish Kim was allowed to write more songs for the Pixies."

After finishing recording Pod in Edinburgh, the deal was returned to the United States, but the Pixies were fired. Despite this, she went to Los Angeles to speak with the band but the group's remaining members changed their mind and the four of them began recording Bossanova (1990).

Trompe le Monde (1991), the band's last studio album, was released. The recording sessions were tumultuous, as the band was hardly ever together during the process.

She rarely sang on the band's songs at this point; one of the few tracks she performed on was a recreation of Neil Young's "I've Been Waiting for You." (Sample): However, Deal did appear on Trompe le Monde on songs such as "Alec Eiffel," but did not write any text for the album.

Deal's identical twin sister Kelley joined the Breeders on lead guitar and the band's second album, Last Splash, received critical acclaim and strong commercial success a year after the Pixies' breakup. Within a year of its debut, the record was platinum.

The Breeders gained a number of hit music videos on MTV, including "Cannonball," "Safari," "Divine Hammer" and "Saints," during the Breeders' heydays in the early 1990s. When the band appeared on Lollapalooza's main stage, they also released the vinyl-only "Head to Toe" 10" EP in 1994. Although Kelley Deal's 1994 in a heroin crisis came to an end, the band never officially split up, and the band's title TK stands for "to come" and is often used when editing drafts to highlight missing information).

Deal kept busy during this eight-year absence by forming, recording, and touring with the Amps.

The Amps' single LP, Pacer, after a few gigs where Deal went by the moniker Tammy Ampersand. Reviewers applauded the album's success, but it was commercially ineffective.

She has performed for other artists, most notably fellow Dayton band Guided by Voices (one of the band's lead singers, Robert Pollard), as well as other bands (I Am Decided).

Deal has appeared in many projects, including This Mortal Coil's 1991 version of Chris Bell's "You and Your Sister" (a duet with Tanya Donnelly); and "Live from the Crypt) in 2000.

Deal returned to a newly united Pixies in 2004 and toured North America with them. It was also released that year on "Bam Thwok." In October 2004, a live taping for the public television show Austin City Limits was one of the many highlights. In 2004, the Pixies headlined Lollapalooza in 2005 at Grant Park in Chicago. The Pixies also toured the UK, gaining critical acclaim for their headline appearances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. Deal returned to Dayton, Texas, to care for her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The Breeders' fourth full-length studio album, Mountain Battles, was released in early April 2008. The Breeders' third EP, Fate to Fatal, was released in April 2009. Deal had left the Pixies on June 14, 2013. She has since released new solo music on her website.

Kim Deal performed solo at the All Tomorrow's Parties "Nightmare Before Christmas" festival in the United Kingdom in December 2012, debuting several new songs. She dropped "Walking with a Killer" in her first solo album and continued to see more solo debuts throughout 2013 and 2014.

4AD unveiled LSXX, a 20th anniversary edition of the Breeders' album Last Splash, in April 2013. For a Last Splash anniversary tour of North America, Europe, and Australia, the deal was reunited with Kelley Wiggs, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson. It was announced in August 2014 that the same line up was working on new material.

On October 3, 2017, a new single, "Wait in the Car," was released. The reunited lineup of All Nerve, their first studio album in ten years, received widespread critical acclaim on March 2, 2018. The Breeders also collaborated on several tracks of Courtney Barnett's May 2018 album Tell Me How You Really Feel, with Kim and Kelley singing backing vocals on "Nameless, Faceless" and "Crippling Self-Doubt, and a General Lack of Confidence."

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