"had released more albums that had reached the top 75 of the UK Albums Chart than any other solo British female artist, but this has since been equalled by Kate Bush. Brooks was born Elaine Bookbinder in Broughton, Salford, the daughter of Marjorie Violet ""Vi"" (née Newton) and Kalmon Charles ""Charlie"" Bookbinder. She was raised in Prestwich. She attended North Salford Secondary Modern School. Her older brother is Anthony Bookbinder (born 28 May 1943), who went by the stage name of Tony Mansfield, and was drummer for Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, on their run of 1960s hit records."
"Lauren Laverne Lauren Cecilia Fisher (née Gofton, born 28 April 1978), known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, model, television presenter, author, singer and comedian. Laverne was lead singer and additional guitarist in the rock band Kenickie, although her greatest chart success came when she performed vocals on Mint Royale's single ""Don't Falter"". She has presented television programmes including ""10 O'Clock Live"" for Channel 4, and ""The Culture Show"" and coverage of the Glastonbury Festival for the BBC. Laverne has written a published novel entitled ""Candypop: Candy and the Broken Biscuits"". She presents a radio show on"
"a mobile home. After four years of increasing interest bills and loans, Brooks managed to sell her home (after being threatened with repossession) and cleared all of her debts. Today, all the family are involved in Brooks' career, songwriting and touring. Elkie Brooks Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder, 25 February 1945) is an English singer, a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s and has been nominated twice for Brit Awards. She is known for her powerful husky bluesy voice and hit singles"
"Elkie Brooks Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder, 25 February 1945) is an English singer, a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s and has been nominated twice for Brit Awards. She is known for her powerful husky bluesy voice and hit singles such as ""Pearl's a Singer"", ""Lilac Wine"", ""Don't Cry Out Loud"", ""Fool (If You Think It's Over)"", and ""No More the Fool"", and top-selling album ""Pearls"". She is generally referred to as the ""British Queen of Blues"". By April 2012, Brooks"
"the moment."" Other solo songs performed on radio sessions include: Lauren Laverne Lauren Cecilia Fisher (née Gofton, born 28 April 1978), known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, model, television presenter, author, singer and comedian. Laverne was lead singer and additional guitarist in the rock band Kenickie, although her greatest chart success came when she performed vocals on Mint Royale's single ""Don't Falter"". She has presented television programmes including ""10 O'Clock Live"" for Channel 4, and ""The Culture Show"" and coverage of the Glastonbury Festival for the BBC. Laverne has written a published novel entitled ""Candypop: Candy"
"Sandra Kerr Sandra Kerr (born 14 February 1942, Plaistow, Essex) is an English folk singer. Kerr sings and plays English concertina, guitar, Appalachian dulcimer and autoharp. She was a member of The Critics Group from 1963-72. With John Faulkner, she wrote the music for the TV series ""Bagpuss"" and voiced the character of Madeleine Remnant (the rag doll). Kerr has been involved in many programmes for BBC Radio including ""The Music Box"" and ""Listening Corner"". She has sung with her daughter Nancy Kerr (whose father is Ron Elliott, a Northumbrian piper) and in the groups Sisters Unlimited and Voice Union."
"Her work has developed to include teaching and leading workshops and she is the director of two folk choirs, Wercasfolk and VoiceMale. She was on the staff of Newcastle University's music department for 17 years until 2017. Sandra Kerr Sandra Kerr (born 14 February 1942, Plaistow, Essex) is an English folk singer. Kerr sings and plays English concertina, guitar, Appalachian dulcimer and autoharp. She was a member of The Critics Group from 1963-72. With John Faulkner, she wrote the music for the TV series ""Bagpuss"" and voiced the character of Madeleine Remnant (the rag doll). Kerr has been involved in"
"Manda Rin Manda Rin (real name Amanda MacKinnon) is a Scottish singer, artist and songwriter. She is the singer and the keyboard player of the Scottish Indie Rock band Bis, and later fronted The Kitchen as well as releasing a solo album. She also co-hosted a radio show on BBC Scotland called ""Air"". Rin released solo singles with This Is Fake DIY Records in 2008 for ""Guilty Pleasure"" and an EP, ""My DNA Sampler"". The next year her EP ""My DNA"" was released. Rin contributed vocals to tracks for the 1998 album ""Cat Food"" from J Church and Meister's 2004"
"""I Met The Music"". She later teamed up with Hyperbubble on a track for the group's 2011 album ""Drastic Cinematic"" and for the 2013 EP ""Hyperbubble + Manda Rin"". Manda Rin Manda Rin (real name Amanda MacKinnon) is a Scottish singer, artist and songwriter. She is the singer and the keyboard player of the Scottish Indie Rock band Bis, and later fronted The Kitchen as well as releasing a solo album. She also co-hosted a radio show on BBC Scotland called ""Air"". Rin released solo singles with This Is Fake DIY Records in 2008 for ""Guilty Pleasure"" and an EP,"
"""Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story"" was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special. Sarah McGuinness Sarah Townsend, known professionally as Sarah McGuinness, is a British singer, composer, producer, director, and screenwriter. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, McGuinness grew up singing harmonies with her mother and sisters in County Donegal. At Christmas, she sang carols with a young Peter Cunnah (""D ream""). McGuinness moved to London at the age of 18 to study English and Drama. She has worked in theatre and stage shows, moving into music production and then into feature and documentary film-making. In 2010, she received"
"name Elaine Bookbinder) was issued on CD, vinyl and cassette in May 1988 through Legend Records. The CD and cassette versions of the album contained bonus tracks, ""Only Love Will Set You Free"" and ""I Can Dream Can't I?"". ""Bookbinder's Kid"" was re-released in 1998 on CD and cassette by Castle Records. Side one Side two <nowiki>* Cassette and CD only</nowiki> Bookbinder's Kid Bookbinder's Kid is a 1988 album by Elkie Brooks, the follow-up to her top five album ""No More the Fool"". After the success of the ""No More the Fool"" album, Brooks' new record company were keen to"
"Electra Mustaine Electra Nicole Mustaine (born January 28, 1998) is a recording artist, actress, model and songwriter. She was raised in Fallbrook, California and currently resides in Nashville. Mustaine is the daughter of heavy metal musician Dave Mustaine, lead vocalist of Megadeth, and Pamela Anne Casselberry. She was born in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 28, 1998, six years after older brother Justis. Mustaine moved to Fallbrook, California at age 5 and started pursuing a career in musical theater at age 7. She began to practice singing in attempt at one day becoming a more prominent figure in the world musical"
"booking agency the website is gone. Tina Cousins Tina Patricia Cousins (born 20 April 1971) is an English singer, songwriter and former model. She has had five singles in the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with others, including ""Mysterious Times"" with Sash!, which reached number 2 in the UK in 1998. She has also achieved popularity in several other countries, including four Top 30 hits in Sweden, six Top 30 hits in Australia and seven Top 20 hits in Finland. Her other hit singles include ""Pray"" (1998), ""Killin' Time"" (1999),"
"Genevieve McGuckin Genevieve McGuckin is an Australian musician, songwriter, film producer and graphic designer who was born in Brisbane. In 1986 she was a founder of These Immortal Souls on keyboards and has collaborated with fellow founder, and sometime domestic partner, Rowland S. Howard, and with his earlier band, the Birthday Party, on their album, ""Prayers on Fire"" (April 1981). Genevieve McGuckin was born in Brisbane. She has been a long-time collaborator (both musically and romantically speaking, at various points) of rock musician, Rowland S. Howard. During 1980, in London, the pair co-wrote two tracks, ""Capers"" and ""Ho-Ho"", for his"
"Iraina Mancini Iraina Mancini is a British singer, songwriter, DJ, radio host, actress and model. Iraina was born into a musical family. Her father, Warren Peace, was David Bowie's childhood friend and later went on to tour providing backing vocals and writing with David from ""Aladdin Sane"" through to ""Station to Station"". At 15, Iraina started modelling and writing songs herself; Iraina's first band was Mancini, an electronic pop outfit that appeared on Channel 4's Mobile Act Unsigned. There they got discovered and recorded an album with legendary producer Jagz Kooner. After Mancini went separate ways Iraina moved to Liverpool"
"Chloë Agnew Chloë Alexandra Adele Emily Agnew is an Irish singer and songwriter who is an original former member of the Celtic music group Celtic Woman, as well as its youngest member. She comes from Knocklyon, County Dublin where she lived with her mother Adele ""Twink"" King and younger sister, Naomi. She sings in English, Irish, Latin, Italian, and German. Agnew has a soprano vocal range. Agnew was born to Irish entertainer Adele ""Twink"" King and Irish oboist David Agnew. She made her first television appearance on her mother's programme aged four weeks old, and later sang on the show"
"Margaret Fiedler McGinnis Margaret Fiedler McGinnis is a London-based American vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and noted guitarist. She is best known as a founding member of UK indie groups Moonshake and Laika and as live guitarist with PJ Harvey and Wire. She was born as Margaret Fiedler in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and later in Connecticut. As a child, she was trained as a cellist, and was later educated at Sarah Lawrence College and at Trinity College in Dublin. McGinnis was involved with various bands in high school in Connecticut and in college in New York. She formed"
"Hilken Mancini Hilken Mancini (born February 5, 1970) is a US female singer, songwriter, musician, author, co-founder of Punk Rock Aerobics, and Girls Rock Campaign Boston. She has been a member of the bands Fuzzy, The Count Me Outs, Shepherdess, The Monsieurs and Band of Their Own. Hilken was born on February 5, 1970. Her parents are Dominic Mancini, a jazz singer, Construction company owner and developer, and theatrical producer, and Hope (Roppo) Mancini, director of a Syracuse, New York children's theater founded by Hilken's sister, Meredith Mancini. Growing up in Syracuse, Hilken graduated from Jamesville DeWitt High School, and"
"Elizabeth Cronin ""This page is about the singer. For the movie character, see Drop Dead Fred."" Elizabeth Cronin (30 May 1879 - 22 May 1956) was a singer/songwriter who specialised in Irish traditional music. Elizabeth Cronin, who was nicknamed ‘Bess’, and later ‘The Muskerry Queen of Song’ was born on 30 May 1879 in West Cork. Cronin was the eldest daughter of Maighréad Ní Thuama and Seán ‘Máistir’ Ó hIarlaithe, who was a village headmaster in a school of Barr d’Ínse (which is why he is ‘Máistir), in the Fuithirí area of West Cork, near the Cork-Kerry border. Cronin had"
"Los Angeles. ""Are You On the List? A Guide on How to Become a Modern Socialite"" (co-author with Olivia Cox and Lewis-Duncan Weedon) (2014) Kitty Brucknell Kimberley Dayle Edwards (born 15 November 1984), known by her stage name Kitty Brucknell, is a British singer-songwriter. Brucknell rose to fame as a finalist on the eighth series of ""The X Factor"" in 2011, where she placed seventh. Brucknell was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 15 November 1984. She started singing at an early age, as well as playing the violin and the piano. Throughout her childhood, she took part in a number"
"called Mustaine Writers Retreat overseas, the first being in Scotland where songwriters performed at Glasgow's famous, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. Here songwriters from all over the world can come together and write new songs for their projects. Electra hopes this retreat will broaden the perspectives and cultural influences of the songwriters and artists that attend, as well as strengthening relationships between songwriters in the musical community, despite national borders & language barriers. Electra Mustaine Electra Nicole Mustaine (born January 28, 1998) is a recording artist, actress, model and songwriter. She was raised in Fallbrook, California and currently resides in"
"Tina Cousins Tina Patricia Cousins (born 20 April 1971) is an English singer, songwriter and former model. She has had five singles in the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with others, including ""Mysterious Times"" with Sash!, which reached number 2 in the UK in 1998. She has also achieved popularity in several other countries, including four Top 30 hits in Sweden, six Top 30 hits in Australia and seven Top 20 hits in Finland. Her other hit singles include ""Pray"" (1998), ""Killin' Time"" (1999), ""Forever"" (1999), ""Just Around the Hill"""
"Miranda Cooper Miranda Eleanor De Fonbrune Cooper (born 1975) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and television presenter. Miranda Cooper has worked in the music industry since 1996 when she gained her first recording contract. She worked as a professional dancer for artists such as Dannii Minogue before going into television presenting. In 1997, Cooper met Brian Higgins, the founder of Kent-based songwriting and production team Xenomania. Miranda Cooper signed a deal with London Records under the alias Moonbaby, releasing the single ""Here We Go"" to little success, although it was used as the theme tune to the"
"Elouise Elouise (born Louise Joanne Freeman; 14 May 1986) is an English singer. Working on her first album with Steve Anderson and Terry Ronald amongst others. Anderson, once one half of the dance outfit Brothers in Rhythm, often works with the singer Kylie Minogue composing the music for her tours. Elouise appeared before a crowd of thousands at London's Trafalgar Square, as one of the Main Stage headline acts at the Pride London 2009 celebrations on 4 July. She also appeared at ""Under the Stars"", one of East London's biggest outdoor music events, on 5 September. Elouise's first song, ""Another"
"Olivia Newton Bundy Brian Tutunick (born March 31, 1968) is an American musician, more famously known as Olivia Newton Bundy, and was the bassist and co-founder of the rock group Marilyn Manson until 1990, when he was replaced by Gidget Gein. His stage name was created by mixing the names of Olivia Newton-John, singer; and Ted Bundy, serial killer. In 1993 Brian's new band Collapsing Lungs (also known as L.U.N.G.S.) was signed to Atlantic Records. In 1996 Brian along with notable DJ Grynch created a new band, Nation of Fear. They released the song ""Immortal"" on a compilation CD for"
"Guernica Mancini Guernica Mancini is a singer/songwriter from Sweden. She was 14 years old when she formed the all-female band ""Banda Sept"" which performed live all over Sweden. In 2007, Mancini enrolled at the prestigious Musicians Institute in Los Angeles where she won a songwriting contest which led her to record with famed Black Eyed Peas music producer Darryl Swann. After leaving Musicians Institute, she formed the all-female band ""Inglourious"", performing at music venues around the United States, including House of Blues, Hard Rock Café, The Key and The Roxy. Mancini teamed up with Jeff Young of Megadeth as the"
"Emma Anderson Emma Anderson (born 10 June 1967) is an English musician. She is best known for being a songwriter, guitarist and singer in the shoegazing/Britpop band, Lush. Born in Wimbledon, London, the adopted daughter of a former army officer who ran a gentleman's club in Piccadilly, Anderson attended several private schools before taking her O-Levels at Queen's College, where she met Miki Berenyi. As keen music fans, they wrote a fanzine called ""Alphabet Soup"". Her first band, which she joined in 1986, was The Rover Girls (which featured Chris P Mowforth and Stuart Watson, who were both later in"
"Laura Macfarlane Laura Sandra MacFarlane (also credited as Lora MacFarlane) is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and audio engineer. Since 1996 she is the founding mainstay of the Australian indie rock band, ninetynine. MacFarlane also performs solo and has been in other bands, including as an early drummer and singer with United States rock group, Sleater-Kinney (1994–96). Laura Sandra MacFarlane is from Glasgow Scotland, her parents are George MacFarlane (1936–2006) and Patricia ""Patsy"" MacFarlane; she has two older siblings and one daughter Astrid MacFarlane . The MacFarlane family migrated to Perth in October 1978. George was an accomplished musician and had"
"Imaani Imaani Saleem (born Melanie Crosdale in 1972) is an English singer, best known for representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song ""Where Are You"". The song placed second in the contest, and became a top 20 hit in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Although ""Where Are You?"" remains her sole solo chart entry, in 2000 she re-entered the top 20 of the UK Singles chart alongside Tru Faith & Dub Conspiracy's ""Freak Like Me"". More recently, she has recorded many songs with jazz-dance group Incognito, and in 2014 released"
"Esther Applunius Elizabeth Applunius Chin, also known as Esther Applunius or Esther OIAM 3 (born 12 April 1987 in Tambunan, Sabah, Malaysia) is a Malaysian singer. Her father, Applunius Chin of Papar, is a veteran musician on Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM). The fifth of eight siblings, she studied at Shan Tao Kindergarten, SRJK (C) and Kota Kinabalu High School. Esther has enjoyed singing since she was nine years old, and at the age of 10 she was Sabah champion in the RTM singing contest Bintang Kecil. In 2009 she reached the final of the popular Malaysian TV reality show ""One"
"Alexia Gardner Alexia Elowise Benz-Gardner (born 2 August 1969) is a British-Jamaican singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Birmingham, England and Kingston, Jamaica, she performed in various singing competitions and church events as a child. Both of which were performed with her sister, Paula, in a duo called, ""High Profile"". After the two sisters went their separate ways, Alexia debuted her first studio album ""Rest of your life (2002)"". Which was followed by"" Jammin (2005)"", the last album recorded in Shanghai, China before her move to Switzerland. Following the move in 2005, she released her only"
"Cleo Higgins Cleopatra Madonna Higgins, better known mononymously as Cleo, is a British R&B/soul/pop singer, dancer, songwriter and actress based in Manchester, England. Higgins was the lead singer of the eponymously named sister act, Cleopatra. In 2000, Higgins branched out from Cleopatra and recorded two duets with tenor Russell Watson. The first song, ""Someone Like You"" was featured on Watson's multi-platinum debut album The Voice which climbed to No. 1 on the U.S classical charts. Higgins and Watson performed the song both on tour and on the National Lottery and they collaborated a second time, recording another duet called ""The"
"in Luxedo and Vera Cruz. She has also played on an LP by The Devastations. Genevieve McGuckin Genevieve McGuckin is an Australian musician, songwriter, film producer and graphic designer who was born in Brisbane. In 1986 she was a founder of These Immortal Souls on keyboards and has collaborated with fellow founder, and sometime domestic partner, Rowland S. Howard, and with his earlier band, the Birthday Party, on their album, ""Prayers on Fire"" (April 1981). Genevieve McGuckin was born in Brisbane. She has been a long-time collaborator (both musically and romantically speaking, at various points) of rock musician, Rowland S."