{"id":510875,"date":"2026-03-01T02:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:10:13","slug":"skye-edwards-on-leaving-and-rejoining-the-band-family-and-husband-steve-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510875\/","title":{"rendered":"Skye Edwards on leaving and rejoining the band, family and husband Steve Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Skye Edwards is best known as the singer in the UK band Morcheeba, which she left in 2003 before rejoining in 2009. The 53-year-old talks about the important men in her life, including her husband, Steve Gordon, with whom she shares two children.<\/p>\n

\"SkyeSkye Edwards, of Morcheeba, had two children from each of her major relationships, the latter through IVF.Michelle Hayward<\/p>\n

I was fostered at six weeks old by Dennis and Doris Smith. I always called Dennis my dad but I wasn\u2019t allowed to call Doris my mother. That\u2019s because my biological mother, Beryl, still visited me in their east London home.<\/p>\n

Beryl had a mental illness that wasn\u2019t discussed in the \u201970s, and being a black woman made it taboo. She was classed as schizophrenic and her children were taken away from her. She also had sons and I got to meet my older brothers later in life.<\/p>\n

Dennis and Doris had four children of their own, and I grew up with my older biological sister, Monica. My foster parents were white \u2013 their friends stopped talking to them for taking in children with brown skin.<\/p>\n

Dennis was a grumpy old sod, but I loved him and he loved me. I was the youngest in the family and became the favourite child, much to the displeasure of my sisters.<\/p>\n

I remember a male geography teacher in my first year of high school. He was pointing to a map of England and said, \u201cThis is Sussex, Wessex and Essex \u2013 all of these places end in \u2018sex\u2019, just like the day should.\u201d I didn\u2019t really know about sex at that age, but instantly didn\u2019t like this teacher.<\/p>\n

In east London, there weren\u2019t many girls who looked like me at that time. I remember playing spin the bottle at parties and, if it landed on me, the boy would kiss the girls on either side of me but never me.<\/p>\n

I had a celebrity crush on Ralph Macchio<\/a> in The Karate Kid and loved Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future.<\/p>\n

My foster mum taught me how to sew and inspired me to go to the London College of Fashion to do a bachelor of fashion technology. It\u2019s where I met my best friend, Julie, who then got into Central Saint Martins [art school] and graduated with Stella McCartney in the mid-\u201990s.<\/p>\n

My first boyfriend and I got together in 1994 and dated until 1998. Justin was a model who appeared on the runway at Stella McCartney\u2019s shows with Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. He was also in a band with brothers Ross and Paul Godfrey, and they recruited me into Morcheeba in 1995. Ross opened my ears to different types of music and we have a wonderful relationship. We are on the same wavelength.<\/p>\n

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Justin is the father of my two eldest children \u2013 son Jaega, 30, who is currently touring with Gorillaz<\/a>, and daughter Kiki, 27. I bought a piano to console myself when we split.<\/p>\n

I met my husband, Steve Gordon, at a gig in Brighton. He was playing with the opening band and at the end of the night he held the door open for me and my two kids. He joined Morcheeba in 2000.<\/p>\n

We officially got together in 2001 and married in 2003. Steve had been through cancer before I knew him and we found it difficult to conceive. We went down the IVF route and have two children together, aged 17 and 11.<\/p>\n

When my bandmate Paul found out that Steve and I were seeing each other, Steve was sacked. I didn\u2019t really understand it. I told Paul, \u201cYou\u2019ve got your brother in the band and I have nobody. What\u2019s wrong if we\u2019re dating?\u201d I left Morcheeba<\/a> in 2003.<\/p>\n

George Michael was a huge Morcheeba fan \u2013 he recorded a version of Tape Loop with us. It never got released but did pop up on the internet for a while.<\/p>\n

Steve is my best friend. I wouldn\u2019t have rejoined Morcheeba if it wasn\u2019t for him. I\u2019d refused on several occasions to go back into the studio, thinking, \u201cWhy would I return to a toxic situation?\u201d But it was Steve who said I owed it to the legacy I\u2019d created, and to do it for the fans. I rejoined in 2009.<\/p>\n

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\"JaneJane Rocca<\/a> is a regular contributor to Sunday Life Magazine, Executive Style, The Age EG, columnist and features writer at Domain Review, Domain Living\u2019s Personal Space page. She is a published author of four books.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-510875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}