Alannah Currie

About

New Zealand musician best known as the former singer for the pop group Thompson Twins. She is also a songwriter who has written successful singles like "I Want That Man" for Deborah Harry.

Before Fame

She started as a rock journalist in the U.K., where she moved to in 1977.

Trivia

She founded Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment, a group created in protest of genetic engineering.

Family Life

She married influential ambient house music artist Jimmy Cauty. She has a daughter named Indigo.

Associated With

She and Tom Bailey, to whom she was previously married, formed Thompson Twins in 1977.