Aristazabal Emi Chen Hawkes is the
double bass
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player for the British
indie band
Guillemots. She was born in
Sointula, on
Malcolm Island in
British Columbia
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, Canada.
Hawkes is of mixed Chinese and Japanese ancestry.
Guillemots Biography
, MBCpr.com. Retrieved 2014-09-24 She has studied piano classically, and jazz
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at the New School
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in New York City
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.
She used to work on a cruise ship
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where she claims she only played Frank Sinatra
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songs. She cites some of her influences as Ron Carter
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, Paul Chambers
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was an American jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, he has become one of the most widely-known jazz bassists of the hard bop er ...
and Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz Double bass, upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective Musical improvisation, improvisation, he is considered one of ...
. During an interview in the summer of 2006, it was also mentioned that fellow band member Fyfe Dangerfield
Fyfe Antony Dangerfield Hutchins (born 7 July 1980) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the founding member of the indie rock band Guillemots (band), Guillemots.
Early life
Born in Moseley, Birmingham, in 1980, he moved to Bro ...
had bought the Van Morrison
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album ''Astral Weeks
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'' for her ( Richard Davis plays the upright bass on this album). She claims that she is "the biggest sucker for hip-hop and R&B in the group".
On an episode of ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks
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'', Fyfe said that Aristazabal had found the perfect note to give a lady an orgasm
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, but she wouldn't tell the rest of the band what it was. She later revealed that this was a joke.
She wrote and performed the song "By the Water" from Guillemots' EP '' Of the Night'', and sings lead vocals on the track "Last Kiss" from their 2008 album, ''Red
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''.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from the Regional District of Mount Waddington
Canadian rock musicians
Guillemots (band) members
Musicians from British Columbia
Canadian people of Chinese descent
Canadian musicians of Japanese descent
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