Leslie Winer

Leslie Winer
Background information
Birth nameBaby Girl Maguire
Born(1958-12-24)December 24, 1958
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, writer, musician, poet
LabelsTransglobal, Rhythm King, Light in the Attic

Leslie Winer (born December 24, 1958) is an American musician, poet, and writer. She began her career as a high fashion model before she transitioned into music.

Early life

Winer was born in Boston to a teenager and handed over to her adoptive grandmother in a hospital parking lot in what was an illegal adoption involving the exchange of money.[1][2] She grew up in Weston, Massachusetts.[3] She relocated to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts where she studied with Hannah Wilke and Joseph Kosuth.[4]

She is of Scots-Irish, Basque, Mi’kmaq, and Acadian descent.[5]

Modeling career

Winer began her career as a fashion model in 1980. Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier described her as "the first androgynous model."[6]

Winer appeared in fashion campaigns for Valentino, Christian Dior and Chloé.[7] She also appeared on the magazine cover of Vogue Italia Pelle, Vogue Gioiello, and Vogue Australia. She continued to model throughout the 1980s.

In 2014, Winer returned to modeling as the face of Vivienne Westwood's spring/summer 2014 campaign.[8]

Musical career

After her work brought her to London in the mid-1980s, she spent a great deal of time at Leigh Bowery's nightclub, Taboo. It was while in London she met musicians Jah Wobble, who was a former bassist for Public Image Ltd, and Kevin Mooney, former bass player for Adam and the Ants.[4]

In 1987, Winer co-wrote the track "Just Call Me Joe" with Sinéad O'Connor. The song would appear on O'Connor's debut album The Lion and the Cobra, with Winer performing the backup spoken vocal.[3] In 1988, she began recording under the name '©'. Winer recorded her first song, "Kind of Easy," with Karl Bonnie from Renegade Soundwave.[3]

In 1990, Winer recorded the album Witch with Wobble and Mooney. BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel played some tracks off this white label and the record went on to become a small cult classic prompting NME to refer to Winer as "The Grandmother of Triphop".[9]

In 1991, she moved to Miami and was working at Island Records founder Chris Blackwell's South Beach Studios, where she recorded her albums 3 Bags Full and Spider.[3]

Helmut Lang did a small pressing of her album Spider that he released in his NYC shop sometime around 1999 to promote one of his shows.[10] Winer occasionally records music with Swedish composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff and others.[11] She has also worked with Grace Jones.

First white label London 1989 ...

Personal life

Winer had a friendship with writer William S. Burroughs and credits him with being a major mentor.[5] Burroughs mentions his friendship with Winer in a number of interviews and books with French journalist Alain Pacadis and Burroughs’ own last book Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs.[12][13]

Winer dated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat early in her career.[1][8]

In 1986, Winer married Kevin Mooney for "the papers." "The British wanted me to leave the country," she said.[3]

Winer currently lives in France, where she has raised five daughters and is the executor of the estate of writer and poet Herbert Huncke.[1][14]

Discography

Albums

Album Year Artist Note
Witch 1993 © & Leslie Winer Debut release of the Transglobal label
Witch 1999 Leslie Winer Re-release under her real name
Spider 1999 LW & © Recorded between '94 & '97[10]
& That Dead Horse 2010 Leslie Winer Produced by Philip Marshall / Tapeworm
Always Already 2011 Purity Supreme 4-track EP by Leslie Winer & Christophe van Huffel
&c. 2012 Leslie Winer Produced by Philip Marshall / Tapeworm
3 Bags Full 2013 LW & © Completed in '94, also includes tracks from '88, '89[15]
(1) 2015 Leslie Winer, CM von Hausswolff Recorded and mixed in France and Sweden, 2012–13[16]
YMFEES 2018 Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs
When I Hit You - You’ll Feel It 2021 Leslie Winer Career-spanning double vinyl anthology incl. previously unreleased tracks

Appears on

Track Year Artist Release
"Just Call Me Joe" 1987 Sinéad O'Connor The Lion and the Cobra
"You" 1991 Holger Hiller As Is
"Counting the Rosaries (Happiness & Love Mix)" 1991 Book of Love "Counting the Rosaries"
several tracks 1992 Max Silence Running
"Personals" 1994 Jon Hassell & Bluescreen Dressing for Pleasure
"If You Reach the Border" 1995 Bomb the Bass Clear
"Calm Gunshot" 2000 Mekon featuring Leslie Winer "Calm Gunshot"
"When I Was Walt Whitman" 2013 Mekon Piece of Work
"This Blank Action" 2014 Diamond Version CI
"Dave The Shoe" 2018 Christopher Chaplin Paradise Lost
"Pioneer B" 2020 Fritz von Runte The Last Album
"Tenderness" 2021 Maxwell Sterling Turn Of Phrase
"Little Indian" 2024 Shelton Little Indian (EP)

References

  1. ^ a b c Beta, Andy (2021-08-30). "Leslie Winer's Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. ^ "Leslie Winer - John Says". Light In The Attic Records. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. ^ a b c d e Forde, Gerard (Fall 2012). "Leslie Winer". CR Fashion Book. 1 (94–97).
  4. ^ a b Taylor, Joshua (2014-08-08). "The '80s Supermodel Leslie Winer Reissues Her Lost '90s Album". T Magazine. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  5. ^ a b Stafford, Jerry (Autumn–Winter 2019). "Topography for an interview". System Magazine. No. 14. pp. 270–287. ISSN 2052-0808.
  6. ^ "L'Enfant Eternel". www.out.com. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  7. ^ "Miss Dior". www.instagram.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26.
  8. ^ a b The New York Times Style Magazine
  9. ^ "The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | "If I Hit You, You'd Feel It": Leslie Winer, Trip Hop's Forgotten Pioneer". The Quietus (Interview).
  10. ^ a b Winer, Leslie. "Spider". bandcamp. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  11. ^ Alex Black (17 May 2012). "John Peel's Hidden Gems - No.3". www.johnpeelcentreforcreativearts.co.uk. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012.
  12. ^ "Last Words". ASIN B008TSS0MU.
  13. ^ "Nightclubbing - Alain Pacadis - X-trême - Éditions Denoël - Littérature - Essais - Romans policiers - Science fiction - Romans graphiques". www.denoel.fr. 3 March 2005.
  14. ^ WTM (2021-06-03). "Leslie Winer – a pioneer of trip-hop and a much-admired songwriter by artists such as Grace Jones and Boy George – is to be celebrated by the Light In The Attic label with a new compilation". WORLD TREASURES MUSIC. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  15. ^ Winer, Leslie. "3 Bags Full". bandcamp. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  16. ^ "cover of (1)". MonotypeRec. Retrieved 30 May 2016.

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