Scritti Politti
UK
Formed: 1978
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock, R&B, Electronic
Styles: Dance-Pop, Dance, Club/Dance, Punk/New Wave, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Sophisti-Pop, New Wave, Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, R&B/Soul, Post-Punk
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Scritti Politti is the primary vehicle for Welsh singer/songwriter Green Gartside. Few figures in pop music can claim Gartside's distinctive credentials: an artist who began in London's subcutaneous underground in the late '70s but ultimately rose to the top of the U.K. pop charts, a serious devotee of linguistic structuralism who can hold his own in a conversation with his friend, arch deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, and a handsome, dreamy-eyed gentleman who has, in the opinion of one critic, "a voice that's eternally 14 years old" yet none...
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