Alison Moyet (born Genevieve Alison Jane Moyet on 18 June 1961), is an English pop singer-songwriter noted for her bluesy voice [LINK: http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jifpxqugld6e] [1]. Early life and career Moyet was born in Billericay, Essex, England, to a French father and English mother. She grew up in Basildon, where she attended school. After leaving school at 16, she worked as a shop worker and trained as a piano tuner. She was involved in a number of punk rock, pub rock and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including The Vandals and the Screamin' Ab Dabs, The Vicars and The Little Roosters. Yazoo Her mainstream pop career began in 1981 when she formed the electropop duo Yazoo with former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke. In the United States, the band became known as Yaz, as there was a record label in the region al

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