Genesis P-Orridge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Genesis P-Orridge

British artist, musician and writer

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1950

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Profession: actor, writer, poet, singer, musician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Genesis P-Orridge

  • Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson, 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist.
  • P-Orridge rose to notability as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and frontman of seminal industrial band, Throbbing Gristle.
  • They were also a founding member of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth occult group, and fronted the experimental band Psychic TV.
  • P-Orridge identifies as third gender.Born in Manchester, P-Orridge developed an early interest in art, occultism, and the avant-garde while at Solihull School.
  • After dropping out of studies at the University of Hull, he moved into a counter-cultural commune in London and adopted Genesis P-Orridge as a nom-de-guerre.
  • On returning to Hull, P-Orridge founded COUM Transmissions with Cosey Fanni Tutti, and in 1973 he relocated to London.
  • COUM's confrontational performance work, dealing with such subjects as sex work, pornography, serial killers, and occultism, represented a concerted attempt to challenge societal norms and attracted the attention of the national press.
  • COUM's 1976 Prostitution show at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts was particularly vilified by tabloids, gaining them the moniker of the "wreckers of civilization." P-Orridge's band, Throbbing Gristle, grew out of COUM, and were active from 1975 to 1981 as pioneers in the industrial music genre.
  • In 1981, P-Orridge co-founded Psychic TV, an experimental band that from 1988 onward came under the increasing influence of acid house. In 1981, P-Orridge co-founded Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, an informal occult order influenced by chaos magic and experimental music.
  • P-Orridge was often seen as the group's leader, but rejected that position, and left the group in 1991.
  • Amid the Satanic ritual abuse hysteria, a 1992 Channel 4 documentary accused P-Orridge of sexually abusing children, resulting in a police investigation.
  • P-Orridge was subsequently cleared and Channel 4 retracted their allegation.
  • P-Orridge left the United Kingdom as a result of the incident and settled in New York City.
  • There, P-Orridge married Jacqueline Mary Breyer, later known as Lady Jaye, in 1995, and together they embarked on the Pandrogeny Project, an attempt to unite as a "pandrogyne", or single entity, through the use of surgical body modification to physically resemble one another.
  • P-Orridge continued with this project of body modification after Lady Jaye's 2007 death.
  • Although involved in reunions of both Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV in the 2000s, P-Orridge retired from music to focus on other artistic mediums in 2009.
  • P-Orridge is credited on over 200 releases. A controversial figure with an anti-establishment stance, P-Orridge has been heavily criticised by the British press and politicians.
  • P-Orridge has been cited as an icon within the avant-garde art scene, accrued a cult following, and been given the moniker of the "Godperson of Industrial Music."

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