Career
Fans of the singer have included Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Belle and Sebastian and Renato Russo. Born in Cardiff, Statton"s career in music began in 1978 as the singer for the band Young Marble Giants. After Young Marble Giants split up in 1981, she formed the jazz-influenced band Weekend with Simon Emmerson (Booth) and Spike Williams, releasing the album Louisiana Varieté in 1982 and a live European Parliament, Live at Ronnie Scott"s, the following year.
Statton returned to Cardiff and trained to be a chiropractor while teaching t"ai chi.
She returned to music in the late 1980s and released two recordings with the guitarist from Ludus, Ian Devine as "Devine and Statton", The Prince of Wales (1989) and Cardiffians (1990). After working with Devine, she released several records with Spike in the 1990s, starting with Weekend in Wales (1993).
Young Marble Giants reunited for a number of live performances during 2007-2009 in Barcelona, Paris, Vigo, Porto, Berlin, The Hay Festival, Association of Tennis Professionals Festival and Belgium. Further gigs followed in 2012 and 2013.
Statton"s singing has been called "coolly unadorned", cool and dispassionate, and ghostly and fragile, with a "shy, singsong delivery".
Her vocal style is considered influential on many of the indie popular artists that followed. She presently works as a chiropractor.
