Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician, singersongwriter, actor, voice actor, radio presenter and music video director. He is known for being the frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid1990s. Following Pulps hiatus, Cocker has led a successful solo career, and presents a BBC RadioMusic show called Jarvis Cockers Sunday Service.

Cocker was born in Sheffield, , growing up in the area of the city. His father, Mac Cocker, a DJ and actor, left the family and moved to Sydney when Cocker was seven, and had no contact with Cocker or his sister, Saskia. Thereafter, both were brought up by their mother, who later became a Conservative councillor. Cocker credits his upbringing, almost exclusively in female company, for his interest in how women think and what they have to say. He wrote a song about being abandoned by his father, working briefly as a butler, and in 1998 travelled with his sister to Australia to meet him for the first time in nearlyyears.

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