Shirley Manson

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Shirley Ann Manson (born 26 August 1966) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and performer.

She is the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage.

Manson used to commute between Edinburgh and the United States to record with Garbage; she now lives and works in Los Angeles.

Manson's musical career began in her teens when she was hired to play backing vocals and keyboards for the band Goodbye Mr Mackenzie.

She quickly became a mainstay of the group and gained a solid stage presence.

Manson was approached by her band's record label with the intention of launching her as a solo artist, and she and her band's name Angelfish released an album together.

Garbage invited Manson to perform and record vocals on a few unfinished songs after seeing Manson on MTV's 120 Minutes; she later co-wrote and co-produced a complete album with the band.

The resulting self-titled debut album was a critical and commercial hit, and five studio albums followed, including the multiple Grammy Award-nominated Version 2.0 and a greatest hits collection, as well as a best hits collection.

Garbage has toured worldwide and sold 12 million records in over ten years. After Garbage's release on "hiatus," Manson started writing and recording solo material, and she appeared in her first professional acting role on Terminator's second and final season as series regular Catherine Weaver, a liquid metal T-1001 Terminator.

In 2010, Manson returned to the recording studio to write and produce material for the group's fifth studio album Not Your Kind of People, which has since released their sixth album Strange Little Birds.

Early life

Shirley Ann Manson was born in Edinburgh on August 26, 1966, the niece of Muriel Flora (née MacKay) and John Mitchell Manson. Her father, a descendant of the fishing community of Northmavine, had been a university lecturer, and her mother, a big band singer who had been adopted by a Lothian-based family at an early age, adopted the family name MacDonald. Manson was based on an aunt who had been herself named after Charlotte Bront's book Shirley. Lindy-Jayne, who is two years older than her and Sarah, has two sisters, two of whom are two years younger than her. She has two sisters, Lindy-Jayne, who is two years older than her and Sarah, who is two years younger than her. They were taken up in Edinburgh's Comely Bank and Stockbridge areas. She attended Broughton High School and was told by the Church of Scotland that her father (her father was her Sunday School coach) until age 12.

Manson's first public appearance came in 1970, aged four, alongside her older sister in an amateur show held at the local Church Hill Theatre. She began teaching in recorder, clarinet, and fiddle, as well as learning ballet and piano from extramural classes at age seven. Manson spent time in the United Kingdom as a Brownie and a Girl Guide. She attended the City of Edinburgh Music School, and the Broughton High School music program. While at Broughton, she became a member of its drama group, appearing in amateur dramatic and musical performances such as The American Dream and The Wizard of Oz, as well as singing with the Waverley Singers, a local girl choir. The Scotsman newspaper awarded a Fringe First award to a 1981 Edinburgh Festival Fringe performance, in which Manson played a prophet.

Although she loved primary school, Manson was bullied throughout her first year at secondary school, causing her to suffer from depression and body dysmorphic disorder, as well as self-injury: she had sharp objects in her boots and would cut herself if she felt low self-confidence, stress, or anxiety. Manson's bullying came to an end when she identified herself with a largely anti-Insurgent crowd, which culminated in her insurgent behavior. She was out for the majority of her final year at school and began smoking cannabis, sniffing glue, sipping alcohol, shoplifting, and even breaking into Edinburgh Zoo on one occasion. Manson had aspired to be an actor in youth, but the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) refused to accept him. She began as a volunteer in a local hospital's cafeteria and then as a breakfast waitress at a local hotel before spending five years as Miss Selfridge's shop assistant. She began working at the store's makeup counters but was eventually moved to stockrooms due to her customer service attitude. She became well-known in Edinburgh's club scene, and she styled hair for a number of local bands using free samples from Miss Selfridge. She also modelled clothing for Jackie magazine for a short time.

Personal life

From 1996 to 2003, Manson was married to Scottish artist Eddie Farrell. Manson met guitarist and Garbage sound engineer Billy Bush in 2008 and became engaged. In May 2010, they were married at a Los Angeles courthouse. They continue to live in Los Angeles, while Manson maintains a second home in Joppa, Edinburgh's suburb.

Manson has distanced herself from organized religion, but she has long been interested in spirituality. "I was very besotted with the church when I was young," she recalled. I loved the theatre of it, and I became very interested in all the stories we were taught." "Religion's a sham and I'm not going to church anymore," she said at the dinner table when she was around 12. She stopped going to church but continued to have theological discussions with him every Sunday. She was dissatisfied with organized religion, and although she maintained a keen interest in spirituality, she complained that she had "brushed up against too many examples of hypocritical spiritualists."

Manson is regarded as a feminist and has been praised as a feminist icon.

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Career

Manson's first musical experiences came from a brief stint with local Edinburgh band The Wild Indians and a backing vocals with Autumn 1904. Manson was invited by Goodbye Mr Mackenzie's lead Martin Metcalfe to join his band while she was playing with her group. Manson was in a club with Metcalfe at the start, but after breaking from him and becoming a key figure, playing keyboards, backing vocals, and becoming instrumental in the band's company's business side, he stayed with the band. In 1984, Manson's first appearance with the Mackenzies was in the form of "Death of a Salesman." In 1987, the group signed a major-label record contract with Capitol Records, and they debuted their first album, Good Deeds and Dirty Rags, and their first UK top 40 entry "The Rattler." The company's contract was transferred to Parlophone, another EMI company, in 1990, but Parlophone, another EMI company, was unable to chart Parlophone, but Parlophone refused to release the group's second album Hammer and Tongs.

Talking Heads and Debbie Harry Murphy, who supervised Talking Heads and Debbie Harry, acquired the Mackenzies and released their second album under their own name, Radioactive Records, a MCA Records affiliate. Following another single's failure to chart, the company was persuaded to leave Radioactive by their leadership. The Mackenzies continued to write; Manson was also given the opportunity to record lead vocals on a number of tracks on the band's third album. Despite MCA's desire to expand their MCA relationship, Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie's record was a success, and Kurfirst announced Manson as a solo artist after many demos, with the remaining Mackenzies playing as her backing band to circumvent the band's current contract with MCA. Manson's deal compelled her to release at least one album and, at the sole option of Radioactive, up to six additional albums.

Manson and the band recorded the tracks that would make up the Angelfish album in Connecticut with Talking Heads' Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, recording under the name Angelfish and some of the newly published Mackenzie b-side. A lead in the track "Suffocate Me" was sent to college radio, where it was well received. "Heartbreak to Hate" was Angelfish's second single since 1994. Angelfish toured Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States. Vic Chestnutt and the band co-sponsored Live on a tour of North America. On MTV's 120 Minutes, the music video for "Suffocate Me" was broadcast once more. Manson, producer and singer Steve Marker, appeared on the show and thought he'd be a great singer for his band, Garbage, which also stars producers Duke Erikson and Butch Vigil.

Manson was invited by Vig to sing on a couple of tracks at Smart Studios. She returned to Angelfish after a failed audition. Manson confessed to feeling threatened in front of Vig, a band she adored such as Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and The Smashing Pumpkins, and Vig commented that the audition's disorganized nature, as well as the Americans' inability of comprehending Manson's Scottish accent caused communication difficulties. The Angelfish were disorganized on the Live tour, and Manson returned to Smart for his second attempt. She began to work on the back-bones of certain songs, and the band had invited her to become a full member and finish the album; with the remainder of the band, she co-wrote and co-produced the entire album. Manson was given permission by Radioactive in August 1994 to work with Garbage. Garbage, the band's debut album, was released in August 1995 and sold over 4 million copies, boosted by a string of top-charging singles, including "Only Happy When It Rains" and "Stupid Girl." Manson became the band's public face on a tour that lasted until 1996. Manson had been invited by Echo & the Bunnymen to perform on their 1997 comeback album.

Manson became the band's chief songwriter on Version 2.0, the band's first album since its May 1998 debut. Manson modelled for Calvin Klein during his two-year tour in support of the record. Manson spent time in hotels during the earliest days of the debut and Version 2.0. The group produced the theme song to James Bond's film The World Is Not Enough, and Manson became the third Scot to perform a Bond theme after Lulu and Sheena Easton. In the accompanying video, she portrays an android assassin. Manson was one of the first well-known writers to write a blog online when she decided to practice her guitar for the band's third album, which was released in 2000. Manson's third album, Beautiful Garbage, featured Manson's most up-and-coming and personal lyrics to date. The album did not sell as well as its predecessors, but Garbage did a good job in promoting it around the world. Manson's voice broke out during a concert at the Roskilde Festival. She later discovered a vocal fold cyst and had to have corrective surgery.

Manson's lyrics, which followed the band's surprise success with lead-in single "Why Do You Love Me" on debut, have climbed to the top chart positions on release. In October 2005, Garbage began an extended hiatus. During this time, Garbage reformed to perform a short set at a benefit show to raise money for Wally Ingram's medical care, shared song ideas via the internet, produced new music, and film a music video to advertise the band's Absolute Garbage greatest hits compilation. Garbage returned to the studio in 2010 to write and record material for his fifth album, titled Not Your Kind of People, which was also released in May 2012, capping the band's seven-year absence from recording.

Garbage backed Alanis Morissette's 2020 World Tour in 2021, commemorating 25 years of Jagged Little Pill, which had been postponed due to COVID-19. Manson wore a variation of "Garden Witch Overalls," popularized by feminist poet Kate Baer in her interview with Gee Thanks, Just Bought It, hosted by Caroline Moss, at several performances. Manson matched the overalls with knee-high boots and a variety of t-shirts.

Garbage's experimental musical style blends elements from electronic rock, industrial rock, punk, grunge, trip hop, and shoegaze.

Manson revealed in March 2006 that she had begun working on a solo album, with musician Paul Buchanan, producer Greg Kurstin, and film composer David Arnold, who all agreed that completion was "no timetable" for completion. Manson worked with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer in 2007. Manson brought some of her duties to Geffen Records in 2008, who found it "too noir" on the label, causing Manson and Geffen to end her employment by mutual agreement. Manson later wrote, "[Geffen] wanted me to have international radio hits and'be the Annie Lennox of my generation." I kid you not; I am quoting specifically." "I made a quiet, very dim, non-radio-friendly record," she recalled. "I'm not interested in writing nursery rhymes for the masses."

Nevertheless, Manson continued to write articles while unemployed and in talks with David Byrne and Ray Davies about a potential collaboration. Manson released three demos on her Facebook page in 2009, including "In the Snow," "Pretty Horses" and "Lighten Up." In the show Conviction's pilot episode, "Pretty Horses" was later shown. Don't Want To Pretend, Gone Upside, Kid Ourselves, Pure Genius, Sweet Old World, So Shines 14 additional songs co-written with Kurstin and published on copyright and performance rights societies included Don't Want To Pretend, Don't Want To Pretend, I Want To Pretend, Don't Want To Pretend, Stop, To Be King.

Manson said she was pulling out of music in 2009, saying she was sick of the music industry's latest trends and had greater interest in acting. Manson said she considered quitting the music industry in 2008, when her mother suffered from dementia, and later died, saying that "I didn't want to make music" didn't sound innovative. I couldn't do it." After being asked by colleagues to perform David Bowie's "Life on Mars," she reconsidered her words and returned to performing later this year. The son's memorial service took place. "We were all in so much pain, but it meant so much to them that they could sing the song and so much to me that I was able to do something," Manson said. It made me realize how much music sustains people. I'm not sure why I turned my back on it."

Manson also collaborated with a variety of musicians outside of her solo project, reciting a portion of a long poem, co-writing, and recording a duet with Eric Avery for his solo debut on Debbie Harry. Though not recording them, Manson appeared onstage with The Pretenders, Iggy Pop, Incubus, and Kings of Leon in Atlantic City, alongside Gwen Stefani and twice with No Doubt in Universal City. In the music video for She Wants Revenge's single "These Things," Manson also appeared in an uncredited role as a dominatrix. On a track written by Serj Tankian titled "The Hunger," a single from the rock musical Prosperity Bound, Manson performed vocals on the most recent record.

Manson said in January 2012 that her solo album had been cancelled, adding that the album is "[is] dead and buried." The funeral was held. It was sad, and I cried a lot, but it was such a beautiful body that we had an open casket."

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