Massive Attack
British music group
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Portishead
- In Portishead
…production work for trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack. Gibbons had been earning a living as a nightclub singer when she and Barrow met in 1991 while participating in a job-training program at the Bristol unemployment office. They collaborated on a number of songs and dubbed themselves Portishead, after the town where…
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trip-hop
- In trip-hop
…from the town’s postpunk bohemia, Massive Attack—a multiracial collective of deejays, singers, and rappers including Daddy G. (byname of Grant Marshall; b. Dec. 18, 1959, Bristol, Eng.), 3-D (byname of Robert Del Naja; b. Jan. 21, 1965, Brighton, Eng.), and Mushroom (byname of Andrew Vowles; b. c. 1968)—created Blue Lines…
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