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| | The Observer | Magazine | The return of Martina Topley Bird |
 | | Martina, though, says she is rooted in more recent music, the tug and sway of contemporary African blues from Mali, as well as the punk-metal thrust of her teenage heroes, Fishbone, Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. |
 | | Martina was 18 at the time, still at college, and nursing some vague ambition to be a jazz singer. |
 | | Martina and Tricky have, as she puts it, 'combined our energies to make sure she has a stable environment' (though the wayward rapper is now mainly based in New York). |
| observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,962942,00.html (1916 words) |
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