Kim Deal
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Kim Deal performing with The Breeders at All Tomorrow's Parties festival in 2009
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kimberley Ann Deal |
| Also known as | Mrs. John Murphy Tammy Ampersand |
| Born |
June 10, 1961 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Genres | Alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, bass guitar, guitar, drums |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels | 4AD |
| Associated acts | The Breeders, The Pixies, The Amps |
| Notable instruments | |
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Fender Precision Bass Music Man Stingray |
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Kimberley Ann "Kim" Deal (born June 10, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the former bassist and backup vocalist of the alternative rock band The Pixies, and the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Breeders. Deal joined The Pixies in January 1986 as the band's bassist, adopting the stage name Mrs. John Murphy for the albums Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa. Following Doolittle and The Pixies' hiatus, she formed The Breeders with Tanya Donelly, Josephine Wiggs and later introduced her identical twin sister Kelley Deal. The Pixies broke up in early 1993.
After The Pixies, Deal returned her focus to The Breeders, who released the platinum-selling album Last Splash in 1993. In 1994 The Breeders went into hiatus after Kelley entered drug rehabilitation. During their eight-year break, Deal adopted the stage name Tammy Ampersand and formed The Amps, recording a single album, Pacer in 1995. She resumed her role as The Breeders' guitarist for their third album Title TK in 2002, and returned to The Pixies when they reunited in 2004. She left The Pixies in 2013.
Deal was born in Dayton, Ohio. Her father was a laser physicist who worked at the nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Kim and her identical twin sister Kelley were introduced to music at a young age; the two sang to a "two-track, quarter-inch, tape" when they were "four or five" years old, and grew up listening to hard rock bands such as AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. When Deal was 11, she learned Roger Miller's "King of the Road" on the acoustic guitar. In high school, at Wayne High School in Huber Heights, she was a cheerleader and often got into conflicts with authority. "We were popular girls," Kelley explained. "We got good grades and played sports." Living in Dayton was for her like living in Russia: a friend of Kelly living in California used to send them cassettes of artists like James Blood Ulmer, Undertones, [Elvis] Costello, Sex Pistols and Siouxsie [and the Banshees]. "These tapes were our most treasured possession, the only link with civilization".
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