Goldie

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Goldie is the stage name of Clifford Joseph Price, an English producer, DJ, graffiti artist and actor, born on 19 September 1965 in Walsall and raised in Wolverhampton. He has Jamaican and Scottish roots. At the age of three he was put up for adoption and grew up in children's homes and foster families. He first became known as a graffiti artist, with work in Birmingham and Wolverhampton that featured in the documentary Bombin'. He moved to the United States for graffiti projects and sold gold teeth in New York and Miami. The nickname comes from Goldielocks, a name from his days as a b-boy.

Music and breakthrough

In the 1990s Goldie became a pioneer of British jungle, drum and bass and breakbeat hardcore. He released singles as Rufige Kru and Metalheads and co-founded the label Metalheadz. Inner City Life (1994) is one of his best-known tracks and appears on the album Timeless (1995). Saturnz Return followed in 1998, Sine Tempus: The Soundtrack in 2008, The Journey Man in 2017 and Alpha Omega in 2025. As an actor he appeared in The World Is Not Enough, Snatch and EastEnders.

Influence

His music combines heavy, deep basslines and accelerated breakbeats with long, floating, soulful passages. Goldie brought drum and bass out of the underground to a large audience and showed that the style could also sound ambitious and almost symphonic. As a result he is one of the best-known faces of the British jungle and drum and bass scene.

Listening

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  Inner City Life · Goldie, 1994
  Apple Music ↗

Discography

Studio albums

• 1995Timeless
• 1998Saturnz Return
• 2008Sine Tempus: The Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2017The Journey Man
• 2025Alpha Omega

Mentioned in other articles

• Jungle and drum and bass GenreIn the mid-1990s the style became tighter and more technical and acquired the name drum and bass, with Goldie, Roni Size and LTJ Bukem as well-known names.