Биография

Lesley Rankine is Ruby. She began her career as the lead singer of noise band Silverfish in London. She's an early, and now current, member of Pigface, the loose knit industrial noise collaboration of Trent Reznor and Martin Atkins of PIL. She subsequently moved to Seattle and joined producer Mark Walk, a former bandmate in Pigface, to create her solo project, Ruby. Ruby’s first release was the acclaimed electronic-downtempo-trip hop album Salt Peter, recorded entirely digitally, which was still quite ground-breaking at that time. The remix album, Revenge, The Sweetest Fruit followed and then Short-staffed at the GenePool (2001), followed by Altered and Proud, the Short Staffed Remixes (2001). Lesley’s other notable projects include a duet with Tom Jones on a cover of the “Kung Fu Fighting” for the Jackie Chan movie, Supercop, and a Mountain Dew commercial appearance singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", directed by Samuel Bayer. In 2013 Ruby returned to music-making, taking touches from the past to emerge anew in the present. Always progressive with the use of technology in music, her process has revealed regular audio and visual releases & collaborations. Ruby live is Lesley and banks of electronica, combined with guitars, various live FX, looping and synth toys & gadgetry. Now working with her brother, Scott Firth, (the bass player in PIL) on a full remake of Salt Peter, with a new album to follow.