Lady June

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June Campbell Cramer (born June 3, 1931 in Doncaster , Yorkshire , England , † June 7, 1999 in Deià , Mallorca , Spain ), better known as Lady June , was an English painter, poet and musician. She was connected to the Canterbury scene , recorded two albums and often combined her painting, poetry and music into multimedia events in her appearances .

biography

The daughter of a Scottish-Russian couple, her father was a fashion retailer, first grew up in Plymouth in a strictly religious environment. Lady June spent her youth - the title was only part of her stage name, she was by no means aristocratic - in Mallorca. In the 1950s she worked as a model first in London , then in Palma .

In Mallorca she immersed herself in the current art scene. Among the musicians and artists she met was Daevid Allen , whose wife Gilli Smyth (1933-2016) became her best friend. With the French Michel Albert, a psychedelic painter, she met the love of her life. She moved to Deià and also began to paint.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lady June lived in London, hosting emerging artists in her apartment and hosting parties that boosted underground culture . At one of those 1973 Gilli Smyth birthday parties, Robert Wyatt fell out of the window and broke his spine.

Lady June began her multimedia performances in the 1970s . She has appeared at the International Carnival of Experimental Sound and the Edinburgh Festival , among others . In 1974 her first album, Lady Juneʼs Linguistic Leprosy , appeared, on which she recited her poems, accompanied by music by Brian Eno and Kevin Ayers .

In 1975 Lady June moved back to Deià, where she continued to be active as an artist. In the mid-1990s she had a minor stroke. In 1996 her second album Hit and Myth was released . She died in 1999 while working on the third album Rebela .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Chris Salewicz: Obituary: Lady June . The Independent , June 11, 1999
  2. ↑ Biography on Calyx - The Canterbury Website (English)
  3. ↑ Lady Juneʼs Linguistic Leprosy at Allmusic, see web links
personal data
SURNAME June, lady
ALTERNATIVE NAMES June Campbell Cramer (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter, poet and musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Doncaster , Yorkshire , England
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1999
Place of death Deià , Mallorca , Spain