Phoebe Killdeer

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1977}}

| birth_place = Antibes, France

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Phoebe Killdeer (born 1977) is an Australian producer, songwriter and the lead singer of the groups Phoebe Killdeer & the Short Straws and Phoebe Killdeer & the Shift. She is best known for her song "The Fade Out Line", which became a major international hit in 2014 when a reworked version of it was released by the deep house producer The Avener retitled as "Fade Out Lines".

Life and career

Killdeer was born in Antibes, South of France in 1977 to Australian parents.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} She became known performing with the French new wave covers band Nouvelle Vague. She appears on their second album, Bande à Part (2006), and she also toured with the group.{{cite web|last1=Rhoads|first1=Celeste|title=Biography|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/phoebe-killdeer-mn0000554738/biography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=17 March 2016}} She also features on the Basement Jaxx song "Tonight", on their album Kish Kash (2003), and on the Zero dB track "Sunshine Lazy", on the album Bongos, Bleeps and Basslines (2006).

Following her work with Nouvelle Vague, Killdeer went on to pursue a solo career, forming the band The Short Straws, and releasing her first album, Weather's Coming, in 2008. Killdeer's second album with the group, Innerquake, was released in 2011.{{cite news|last1=Péguillan|first1=Frédéric|title=Innerquake|url=http://www.telerama.fr/musiques/innerquake,73843.php|accessdate=17 March 2016|work=Télérama|date=10 October 2011|language=fr}} Killdeer's musical style is influenced by Tom Waits and by 1960s rock and blues; her voice has been compared to that of Peggy Lee and of PJ Harvey.

A song from the second album, "The Fade Out Line", was subsequently reworked by the French deep house producer The Avener (Tristan Casara).{{cite news|last1=Bordier|first1=Julien|title=The Avener: "Fade Out Lines est né dès le premier jet"|url=http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/musique/the-avener-fade-out-lines-est-ne-des-le-premier-jet_1629621.html|accessdate=17 March 2016|date=6 December 2014|language=fr}} It was released in September 2014 under the slightly altered title, "Fade Out Lines". The song charted in several countries, reaching number one in Germany,{{cite web |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-1252031 |title=The Avener — Fade Out Lines|language=German |publisher=GfK Entertainment |work=offiziellecharts.de |accessdate=17 March 2016}} Spain, and Austria, and reaching number 3 in France,{{cite web|title=The Avener — Fade Out Lines (chanson)|url=http://www.lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Avener&titel=Fade+Out+Lines&cat=s|website=lescharts.com|accessdate=17 March 2016|language=fr}} and number 6 in Italy.

Killdeer later moved to Berlin where she began a new project, Phoebe Killdeer & the Shift, featuring Thomas Mahmoud-Zahl and Ole Wulfers.{{cite news|last1=Reith|first1=Annika|title=Narration in Moll – Phoebe Killdeer & The Shift with Maria de Medeiros: Videopremiere »Dream B«|url=http://www.spex.de/2016/02/11/narration-in-moll-phoebe-killdeer-the-shift-with-maria-de-medeiros-videopremiere-dream-b/|work=Spex|accessdate=17 March 2016|date=11 February 2016|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317110902/http://www.spex.de/2016/02/11/narration-in-moll-phoebe-killdeer-the-shift-with-maria-de-medeiros-videopremiere-dream-b/|archive-date=17 March 2016|url-status=dead}} Their first album, The Piano's Playing the Devil's Tune (2016), is an experimental collaboration with the Portuguese actress and singer Maria de Medeiros (best known for playing the girlfriend of Bruce Willis's character in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction). The album was released on the Leipzig-based label Altin Village & Mine.{{cite news|title=Stream the new album by Phoebe Killdeer & The Shift|url=http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/stream-the-new-album-by-phoebe-killdeer_the-shift|accessdate=18 March 2016|work=The Wire|date=March 2016}}

Discography

;Phoebe Killdeer & the Short Straws

Weather's Coming (2008)
Innerquake (2011)

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;Phoebe Killdeer & the Shift

The Piano's Playing the Devil's Tune (2016) – with Maria de Medeiros{{cite web|url= https://www.discogs.com/artist/252792-Maria-De-Medeiros |title= Maria de Medeiros |work= discogs.com |access-date= 16 January 2024 }}

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