Birth name Jackie Joyce Name Helicopter Girl Origin Perth, Scotland Role Musician | Instruments Vocals Years active 2000–present | |
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Genres Folk
trip hop
pop
leftfield
electronica
dance
downtempo
soul
indie pop Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
arranger-producer Record labels Dharma Records, Instant Karma Albums Voodoo Chic, How to Steal the World, Wanda Meant, Metropolitan Similar People Rod Stewart, Rob Dickins, Talitha MacKenzie, Martyn Bennett Profiles | ||
Music group Mouth Music (Since 1991) | ||
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Helicopter Girl is the stage name of Jackie Joyce, a musician from Perth, Scotland. Her first album was 2000's How to Steal the World, which was nominated for a Mercury Prize. Also, in 2001, she appeared on the Rod Stewart album, Human, performing with him on the track "Don't Come Around Here."
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Joyce then took an extended break from the business before writing and recording her second album, Voodoo Chic, which featured the single "Angel City," and was released in 2004. The album Metropolitan was released in June 2008. It was preceded by the single "It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This".
Helicopter Girl's fourth album, Wanda Meant, was self-released on 1 April 2015.
A track in the album Ecohero by Ambisonic, a band she was a member of in 1997, featured a song called "Helicopter Kinda Girl".