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Kirsty Hawkshaw (born 26 October 1969 in London, UK) is an English dance/electronica/house/trance musician and songwriter. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she is known as the lead vocalist of the 1992–94 group Opus III, and her collaborative work with other musicians and producers.
Kirsty Hawkshaw is the daughter of the British production music/film music composer and disco record producer Alan Hawkshaw and his German- born wife, Christiane Bieberbach.
At a rave event in 1991 she was noticed by producers Ian Munro, Kevin Dobbs and Nigel Walton, who at the time were known as A.S.K., an offshoot of The Spiral Tribe. It was through this meeting that they would form a dance act called Opus III. Their first single, a cover version of the song "It's a Fine Day" from their debut album Mind Fruit was an international success and Top 10 hit on UK Singles Chart, and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1992. A reversed sample of Hawkshaw's singing from this track was used in the Orbital track "Halcyon," the music video for which featured Hawkshaw. Opus III also had another US No. 1 hit on the same chart in 1994 with "When You Made The Mountain", from their second and final album, Guru Mother.
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Jonathan Ross with Kirsty Hawkshaw of Opus III February 1992 extract of an interview when 'It's a Fine Day' was number 5 in the charts
IT'S A FINE DAY GENERO: AMBIENT ELECTRONICA + TIESTO + ATB BEAUTY GIRL
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Kirsty Hawkshaw (born 26 October 1969 in London, UK) is an English dance/electronica/house/trance musician and songwriter. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she is known as the lead vocalist of the 1992–94 group Opus III, and her collaborative work with other musicians and producers.
Kirsty Hawkshaw is the daughter of the British production music/film music composer and disco record producer Alan Hawkshaw and his German- born wife, Christiane Bieberbach.
At a rave event in 1991 she was noticed by producers Ian Munro, Kevin Dobbs and Nigel Walton, who at the time were known as A.S.K., an offshoot of The Spiral Tribe. It was through this meeting that they would form a dance act called Opus III. Their first single, a cover version of the song "It's a Fine Day" from their debut album Mind Fruit was an international success and Top 10 hit on UK Singles Chart, and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1992. A reversed sample of Hawkshaw's singing from this track was used in the Orbital track "Halcyon," the music video for which featured Hawkshaw. Opus III also had another US No. 1 hit on the same chart in 1994 with "When You Made The Mountain", from their second and final album, Guru Mother.
Below these planetarium skies
I run towards you
The horizontal bungy pulls me back
Though I adore you
They say that we will never know it
Unless we surrender to it
There are signs everywhere
Telling me that planet Earth
Is just one big trip
But I'm held hostage in a dream
Held hostage in a sleep
Following a shadow of a shadow
Held hostage in a dream
Following a shadow of a shadow
Have I ever truly loved
Does the rain and sun sprout seeds of stealth
I'm waiting patiently for the day
When I let the world turn by itself
Till the moment when I'm dancing
Like no-ones watching
You shouldn't depend on me
I see it differently
But I'm always grateful
When another soul beleives in me
But I'm held hostage in a dream
Held hostage in a sleep
Following a shadow of a shadow
Held hostage in a dream
Following a shadow of a shadow
But I'm held hostage in a dream
Held hostage in a sleep
Following a shadow of a shadow
Held hostage in a dream
Following a shadow of a shadow
But I'm held hostage in a dream
Held hostage in a sleep
Following a shadow of a shadow
Held hostage in a dream