Piney Gir

Born Angela Penhaligon, offbeat indie pop artist Piney Gir adopted the pseudonym from a childhood nickname. While she began piano lessons at the age of four, the Kansas native grew up in a strict Pentecostal household with a father who banned television and secular music, though her mother would sometimes allow indulgences in pop culture. Penhaligon rebelled by majoring in music in college, then immigrating to London, England in 1998, where she took classes at Saint Martins in hopes of finding kindred spirits and means of expression. It was there that she joined Adrian Morris ...