Introduction
Wendy Smith (born 31 May 1963) is an English musician, best known as being a singer and guitarist in the band Prefab Sprout, and also as being the musical director of The Sage in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
Career
Smith was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England.
Smith joined the band Prefab Sprout in 1983 after seeing them live in their early concerts, and featured on six of their studio albums as a singer, guitarist and keyboard player. The last album she recorded with the group, was 1997's Andromeda Heights. One review of Prefab Sprout's second studio album, Steve McQueen, described Smith as having "fairy-dusted [the album with her] breathy harmonies."
After an inactive period of the band in the late 1990s, coupled with Smith being pregnant, she moved first into teaching, and then becoming the head of practitioner development at The Sage in 2003. She became head of learning and participation at The Sage in 2015.
In 2015, the then Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, announced at the party's annual conference that Smith was his teenage pin-up.
Discography
Collobarations
- Contradictions (as Paul Smith and The Intimations), (2015)