Beth Jeans Houghton

Beth Jeans Houghton (in Newcastle upon Tyne on 3 January 1990) is an English multi-disciplinary musician, composer, artist, animator and video director who also records as Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny and, most recently, as Du Blonde. Houghton started writing songs in her teens. At sixteen she left school and bought herself a Fender Stratocaster, which she taught herself to play. Houghton first appeared in front of an audience in 2006; her debut release, titled EP (a limited-edition 7-inch), was on Bird Records in 2008.