page_title: Martina Topley-Bird
section_title: Guest appearances
hierarchical_section_title: Martina Topley-Bird / Discography / Guest appearances
caption_attribution_description: Massive Attack in Conegliano on 08/11/2009.
context_page_description: Martina Gillian Topley-Bird is an English vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained fame as the featured female vocalist on trip hop pioneer Tricky's debut album, Maxinquaye. She also worked with him on his subsequent albums Nearly God and Pre-Millennium Tension. In 2003, Topley-Bird released her debut solo album, Quixotic, which was critically praised and earned her a Mercury Prize nomination.
  This was followed by Anything, The Blue God and Some Place Simple. She has also collaborated with Gorillaz, appearing on their album Demon Days, as well as with Mark Lanegan, Diplo and Massive Attack on Heligoland, which she followed by a world tour with the group. Her song Sandpaper Kisses was covered by Stephen Marley and sampled by such artists as Berry Weight and The Weeknd.
context_section_description: Tricky – "Overcome", "Ponderosa", "Black Steel", "Hell Is Round the Corner", "Aftermath", "Abbaon Fat Tracks", "Brand New You're Retro", "Suffocated Love", "Strugglin'" and "Feed Me" from Maxinquaye (1995)
  Tricky – "Black Coffee", "Children's Story", "I Be the Prophet", "Judas," and "Poems" from Nearly God (1996)
  Tricky – "Vent", "Christiansands", "Bad Dreams", "Makes Me Wanna Die", "Sex Drive", "Lyrics of Fury" and "My Evil Is Strong" from Pre-Millennium Tension (1996)
  Tricky – "Singing the Blues", "6 Minutes", "Analyze Me", "Talk to Me (Angels with Dirty Faces)", "Carriage for Two" and "Demise" from Angels with Dirty Faces (1998)
  Primus – "Dirty Drowning Man" and "Coattails of a Dead Man" from Antipop (1999)
  David Holmes – "Outrun" and "Zero Tolerance" from Bow Down to the Exit Sign (2000)
  Diplo – "Into the Sun" from Florida (2004)
  Gorillaz – "All Alone" from Demon Days (2005)
  Common – "Everywhere" from Universal Mind Control (2008)
  Leila – "Deflect" and "Why Should I?" from Blood Looms and Blooms (2008)
  Massive Attack – "Babel" and "Psyche" from Heligoland (2010)
  Clark – "Open", "Secret" and "The Pining Pt. 2" from Iradelphic (2012)
  The Prodigy – "The Day Is My Enemy" from The Day Is My Enemy (2015)
  Tricky – "When We Die" (2016)
caption: Topley-Bird performing with Massive Attack, 2009
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