MC Kinky

Caron Liza Geary (born 15 October 1963 in Paddington, London),^[1] known by various stage names, is an English female raggamuffin toaster. She was the first white female reggae/dancehall MC.^[1][6]

According to Geary, her first recorded appearance was on a cover of "Kid Ralph", a dancehall track by Little Twitch.^[7][8][9] The song talks about a "legendary" homosexual figure in Jamaica's prison system.^[10] She has subsequently worked as a solo artist and with other musicians, including Erasure and Boy George, who described her music as "the dirtiest 'slackest' reggae I'd heard since the seventies".^[11]

Growing up in Marylebone,^[12] Geary lived adjacent to an after-hours party which blasted out reggae music;^[12] as a result, Geary was exposed to reggae from a very young age. It is these experiences which inspired her to write the controversial song "Everything Starts with an 'E'" as part of E-Zee Possee, which was banned by the BBC because of its lyrics and made No. 69 in the UK Singles Chart in 1989, leaving the chart after only one week;^[13] however it was re-released less than a year later in March 1990 and climbed to No. 15 on the UK chart,^[13] spending eight weeks in the chart.^[13]

Kinky's first solo single, the Apollo 440 produced "Get Over It",^[14] reached No. 95 on the UK Singles Chart.^[15] Her only solo top 75 hit, coming five years later, was Everybody, released under the name "Kinky", which charted at No. 71 on that chart.^[16]

Kinky has been touring underground, occasionally providing vocals for other artists. In 1997, she took a residency in Ibiza as "the Infidel",^[12] operating under the name for a week^[17] before writing an album called Cantankerous and taking up the name for herself.^[12] When a member of staff at Club Motherfucker described her sound as "feral pop",^[7] she became "Feral" and finally ended up with "Feral a.k.a. MC Kinky"^[2] and "FERALisKINKY"^[18]

Descriptions of Geary's sound have varied from a "bass driven, vitriolic sonic hybrid of grimy electronic ragga, manic house and punk rock"^[6] to a "white female raggamuffin toaster".^[19] Kinky has denounced these descriptions, saying "I can't be bothered with people who spend large amounts of time trying to place people and music into small and narrow categories. I do what comes naturally to me, and it usually has a combination of influences."^[19]

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