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Toyah Willcox Biography

Toyah Willcox is one of the most popular and richest Punk Singer who was born on May 18, 1958 in England, England, United Kingdom. Singer of the new wave hits “I Want to Be Free” and “Thunder in the Mountains.” She was the frontwoman of the band Toyah.

She played a role in the 1979 film Quadrophenia, which also starred Phil Daniels.

Toyah Ann Willcox (born 18 May 1958) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, actress, producer, author and storyteller. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Willcox has had 8 top 40 singles, released over 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and 10 feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows.

Since Willcox’s move to London in the mid-1970s, her acting and musical careers developed in parallel, causing lots of misunderstanding. “I think people found me either fake, or couldn’t put me in a compartment”, Willcox later commented on the way her work in theatre and the reputation of “high priestess of punk” collided. In 1980 writer Paul Morley described Willcox’s roles as having had “great attraction” and being “bright boosts”. Solidly established (“and undeniably hot”, in Morley’s words), she had at the time much less credit as a musician, desperately wanting, meanwhile, her music to be as accepted as her acting. On the way those two worlds interacted, Willcox’s commented: “It’s difficult to compare the two worlds and say why you’re doing both. I generally just do whatever I want to do next. I’m still the one person about, I think, who’s managed to keep the two careers completely separate. Very little of my music gets involved with my acting, and I wouldn’t like it to. I like doing both music and acting. I get a lot of inspiration from acting and the music. Doing a play like this leaves the days free to work on music. It’s just perfect. I need to work day and night time, so having both enables me to do that.”

She married Robert Fripp of King Crimson in 1986.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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After her O-levels (which she took late, having lost a year to have corrective surgery on her feet), Willcox left school at about 17 and went straight to Old Rep Drama School in Birmingham. “Already by then I was known in Birmingham for being the oddball that walked around with dyed hair. And you’ve got to remember that this is pre-punk, this was about 1973–74”, she later recalled. While in drama school, she had to pay her fees because she was the one of her year who didn’t get a grant (the man who took her grant meeting wrote down on a piece of paper, which she saw: “She has a lisp and isn’t attractive”). “I worked in all the theatres in Birmingham, so I’d go to drama school from 10 to 5, then I’d go to the Alex Theatre or the Hippodrome Theatre, and I’d dress the stars who were on tour”, she recalled. All of those stars without exception, including Judy Geeson, Simon Williams and Sylvia Sims, took a liking to her; by this time she was known in the theatre clique as the “Bird of Paradise”.

Toyah Willcox Net Worth

Toyah Willcox is one of the richest Punk Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Toyah Willcox's net worth $15 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was an aspiring young actress, appearing in films like Jubilee.

She was born with a twisted spine, clawed feet, no hip sockets, and a leg two inches shorter than the other.

Willcox was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham. Her father Beric Willcox ran a successful joinery business and owned three factories. Her mother Barbara Joy, née Rollinson, was a professional dancer, with whom he fell in love after seeing her on stage in Weston-super-Mare with Flanagan and Allen and married in 1949. Barbara had to give up her career after giving birth to Nicola (born 1950) and Kim (born 1953), Willcox’s elder sister and brother, respectively.

Willcox attended a private girls’ school where she was noted for absence from the class room and for setting off alarm clocks during a speech by a visiting MP, future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Struggling as a dyslexic person, which, by her own admission, turned her into an “angry, rebellious” teenager, she achieved just one O-level pass in music. The ambition to sing and act started at about nine. “I was an incredible dreamer when I was at school. I just felt trapped. I wanted to escape, really”, she remembered. This had to do also with her upbringing which she described as “very strict”. As a teenager, obsessed with aliens and the concept of alienation, Willcox felt she could not fit in with anything. “I loathed suburbia, I loathed the idea of getting married and having kids. I just thought: ‘Where the hell do I belong?'” she recalled. In 1974 Willcox started to exercise her rebel instincts in experimenting with hair. “I just looked like something off another planet. And I was very, very lonely. No one would come near me. Buses wouldn’t pick me up, boys wouldn’t come near me”, she remembered.

Willcox’s performance in Glitter (1976), which some years later she remembered as embarrassing, provided nevertheless a crucial impulse to start musical career of her own. “Inspired by the band, the equipment, the volume, the ambience… my mind was set. I had to put a band together myself, or get into one… quick!”, she said. In 1977, while with the London’s National Theatre playing Emma in Tales from the Vienna Woods, Willcox fronted a band called Toyah which featured Joel Bogen on guitar, Mark Henry on bass, Steve Bray on drums, Peter Bush on keyboards, and herself on vocals, cutting “a very striking visual image at this time with bright orange hair with pink tips”. She never considered herself a musician. “I was writing poetry. Most of that poetry went onto an album called Anthem. But I’ve never really been a musician. I’m a lyricist primarily. So back then I was writing poetry and learning what I loved about a song”, she later recalled.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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In the mid-1970s, as the punk movement began to gain ground, Willcox saw something she might belong to, even if she understood little about punk politics. “When punk started, I think it was very much about Socialism, the Labour Party, the right of the workers, the right to be heard. I saw it on a slightly different level – no matter who you are, if you had an idea, then you could be part of the punk movement. I was slightly more simplistic in how I viewed it. It was a kind of emotional rebellion rather than a cultural rebellion.” A friend suggested that she should see the Sex Pistols. “It wasn’t that I saw Sex Pistols and thought: ‘Oh, that changed my life’. I saw them and my reaction was: ‘I can do better, I go to London to do it’. From then on I knew I didn’t have to behave in a social norm. Because I wasn’t alone.” By the time she formed her first band, Willcox was already an aspiring young actress.

Between 1977 and 1983, she fronted the band Toyah, before embarking on a solo career in the mid-1980s. At the 1982 BPI/Brit Awards, Toyah was nominated for British Breakthrough Act, and Best Female Solo Artist. Toyah was nominated a further two times in this category in 1983, and in 1984. Her biggest hits include “It’s a Mystery”, “Thunder in the Mountains” and “I Want to Be Free”.

Who is Toyah Willcox Dating?

According to our records, Toyah Willcox married to Robert Fripp. As of December 1, 2023, Toyah Willcox’s is not dating anyone.

In mid-1977, a National Theatre actor, Ian Charleson (best known for his later role in Chariots of Fire), thought that Willcox was someone that his friend, film director Derek Jarman, should meet, and took her to tea on Tregunter Road in Fulham at Derek’s flat. The director picked up the script of what later proved to be a seminal punk epic, Jubilee (called Down with the Queen at the time), and said: “it’s a punk movie and I don’t know what we’re going to call it. But it’s fun, it’s anarchic”, and threw it on Willcox’s lap, saying: “Pick any part you want”. “So I picked Mad because she had the most lines in the film. And Derek then said: ‘Of all the characters, if any have to be cut because of lack of money, it’s going to be Mad. Because she is superficial, she doesn’t serve a purpose’, and I said: ‘How wonderfully anarchic; I still want it'”, Willcox remembered. In a month’s time, he did have to cut Mad from the film, but, seeing Willcox greatly upset, gave up his fee on the film so that she could play the role she was craving. “After that, Derek became like a surrogate father, because he knew what it was like to go hungry and so did I”, Willcox recalled. Later she cited Jarman as one of her greatest inspirations: “Derek Jarman I just love to death because he had no compromise. We went hungry when we made Jubilee. Derek literally had nothing to eat halfway through the film; he completely ran out of money. There was nothing in the coffers, and he just refused to sell out and have any form of advertising or any form of sponsorship. Everything offered to him might have diluted the message of the film he turned down. So his spirit I feel very fond of. He was a great man.”

Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Punk Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Toyah Willcox celebrates birthday on May 18 of every year.

In London, Willcox lived in a place called “Mayhem”, the converted British Rail warehouse serving as a studio that started off as a “sort of over ambitious multi-media idea and the whole idea was for anyone to go in there and try and create something”, according to Willcox. It was there that the band Toyah recorded their first demos. For the lack of proper bed she slept for a while in a “second-hand” coffin, reportedly used by the French Red Cross to transport victims of fatal accidents. While doing the film Quadrophenia (1979) Willcox was getting a lot of press and the band was doing well. Up to two thousand people would turn out at gigs, which were huge crowds for an unsigned band. They did a showcase for Safari Records and the label promptly signed them. “Which amazed me, because I’m a live performer, I need my audience, I need my interaction and we were performing in a small rehearsal studio that smelt of beer and piss. But this worked well. It meant I could go back to Quadrophenia and say to Sting: ‘I’ve just been signed!'” Willcox remembered. The band had its first success with the debut single “Victims of the Riddle”, which topped the UK Indie Charts. Then came the Sheep Farming in Barnet EP, produced by Steve James and Keith Hale. Initially released in Germany, in 1979 it was re-released as an LP, comprising the original six tracks, “Victims of the Riddle” A and B sides and three tracks that were previously unavailable on vinyl. Willcox’s second album, The Blue Meaning, went up to no. 40 in the UK Albums Chart in June 1980. By this time she severed all ties with punk aesthetics. “I don’t use punk whatsoever because my philosophies are so different, my morals are so straight. I’m not a punk, I’m a modern woman”, Willcox said in a 1980 TV interview.

Who is Robert Fripp Toyah?

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are a rock star couple turned lockdown YouTubers. Actor and musician Willcox, 64, rocketed to fame during the punk rock era, appearing in cult movies such as Quadrophenia, before releasing 80s hits such as It’s a Mystery.

Does Toyah Wilcox live with her husband?

She revealed that she and Mr Fripp have a house each, so although they spend a great deal of their time together, they also have somewhere to escape to. She said: “We live in the same house now, but we used to have two separate houses.

How old is Toyah?

64 years (May 18, 1958)

How tall is Toyah?

5′ 1″

Where was Toyah born?

Toyah lived in the suburb of Woree, in Cairns, which is the fifth most populous city in all of Queensland and the fourteenth most populated city in Australia. Toyah’s parents – Troy and Vanessa – would separate when she was young, but both would remarry.

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