Gail Ann Dorsey (born 20 November 1962) is an American bass guitarist and vocalist with a distinguished session career, most notably her long association with David Bowie. The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the Session musicians are musicians available for hire as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical outfit or who have acquired fame in their own right David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. Her diverse range of work includes performances and/or recordings with, among others, Bryan Ferry, Boy George, the Indigo Girls, Khaled, Jane Siberry, The The, Skin, Tears for Fears, Gwen Stefani, Charlie Watts, Seal, Gang of Four and Dar Williams. Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Sunderland) is an English Singer, Musician, Songwriter and occasional Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd 14 June 1961 in Eltham London) is an English Singer-songwriter, who was part of the English New Indigo Girls are an American Folk rock duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Khaled Hadj Brahim (born 29 February 1960) better known as Khaled (خالد حاج ابراهيم is a Raï singer-songwriter and Issa (pronounced eeee-sah) (formerly known as Jane Siberry, born October 12 1955) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter The The are an English musical and multimedia group that have been active in various forms since 1979, with singer/songwriter/frontman Matt Johnson being Deborah Anne Dyer, better known by the Stage name Skin, (born 3 August 1967 Brixton, London) is a singer and occasional model Tears for Fears (sometimes informally abbreviated to TFF are Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3 1969 (ˈgwɛn stɛˈfɑːni is an American recording artist and Fashion designer Stefani fronts the rock band No Doubt Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts (born 2 June 1941 is the Drummer of The Rolling Stones. Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Adelo Samuel (born February 19, 1963 in Paddington, London) is a British soul Singer and Gang of Four are an English Post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dar Williams (Dorothy Snowden Williams born April 19, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter specializing in Pop folk.
In addition, she has released three solo albums: The Corporate World (1988), Rude Blue (1992), and I Used To Be. . . (2003), and, according to her website, another album is currently in the works.
She studied the bass at the California Institute of the Arts. The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California. She sings backing vocals on many of David Bowie's tracks on the Reality album.
External links
- Gail Ann Dorsey official website
- Fabchannel.com - Solo acoustic performance from 2004
- All Music Guide entry
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