The Birds (band) Gardner then joining Ashton, Gardner and Dyke. In 2010, Ali McKenzie started to play in gigs as The Birds with the members of Small Faces tribute band, Small Fakers. Session musician: Turn, Turn, Turn The Birds (band) The Birds were an English rhythm and blues band, formed in 1964 in London. They recorded fewer than a dozen songs and released only four singles. Starting out with a hard R&B sound, they later began infusing it with Motown-style vocal harmonies. The best known former member of The Birds is Ronnie Wood, who went on to join the Jeff Beck Group, The
Alternative R&B but it's just not R&B – it's a lot of things, and you can't just call it 'R&B.'" In an interview with "The Guardian", FKA Twigs rejected the term by declaring, "Fuck alternative R&B!" She further explained: "It's just because I'm mixed race. When I first released music and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before, it's not a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later, now she's an R&B singer.'" "The Fader" echoes her sentiment, stating "By adding the prefix, it sidelines R&B itself