Alison Moyet (born Genevieve Alison Jane Moyet on 18 June 1961). Moyet was born in Billericay, Essex, England to a French father and English mother. She grew up in Basildon, where she attended school. After leaving school at 16, she worked as a shop worker and a piano tuner. She was involved in a number of punk rock, pub rock and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including The Vandals and the Screamin\\\' Ab Dabs, The Vicars and The Little Roosters.