Annie Lennox was born in Aberdeen on Christmas Day 1954 and grew up an only child in a tenement flat. At 17 she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she met Dave Stewart, the other half of Eurythmics. Their partnership has lasted more than 30 years, created 13 ...
Annie Lennox surprised everyone in 1984—including Grammy production staffers—when she took the stage in drag to perform her hit “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” Wearing a dark suit, mutton chops, and lowering her voice to a deeper register, Lennox was totally unrecognizable. But the s...
and if you listen to what is around, you'll hear a huge variety of sound sources, effects treatments, equalisations and levels within any one musical style or genre. What's more if you start comparing, say, Andrew Lloyd‑Webber to Anthrax to Annie Lennox, you'll find that one of the...
Paul Simon (1986):Nobody's done more for world music than Simon, who enlisted South African musicians to liven his greatest solo LP. 'Graceland' is a joyous, super-catchy collection of songs about growing up, growing old and seizing the moment. Forget the controversy; this is music to ge...
With "Sweet Dreams," he and vocalist Annie Lennox quickly started to recognize that they had crafted something which stood out in a different way. The single gave the duo their first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and established them as a success worldwide. They went on to sell more ...
This old African American spiritual, written by Harry Burleigh and Harry Brown, is from the US Civil War era and depicts the anguish of slaves torn from their families, their homeland, and even their own identities. For me the song also brings up strong emotions in relationship to missing my...
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Being influenced by her favourite artists, Minni Ripperton, Kate Bush, The Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, and Annie Lennox to name but a few, Roberta is a Pop artist, focusing clearly on her voice and the emotion of song. Roberta has made the move home to Dublin where she plans to release...
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and their 12-year-old daughter Virginia. The tenor included this song in his 2009 albumMy Christmas, and the live performance reproduced the children’s choir of the original version. "Christmas is the most beautiful day of the year," sa...