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Vocalist on Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky" from the album The Dark Side of the Moon Clare H. Torry (born 29 November 1947) is a British singer, known for performing the improvised, wordless vocals on the song " The Great Gig in the Sky " on Pink Floyd 's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon .
"The Great Gig in the Sky" is the fifth track [nb 1] on The Dark Side of the Moon, a 1973 album by English rock band Pink Floyd. The song features music by keyboard player Richard Wright and improvised, wordless vocals by session singer Clare Torry. It is one of only three Pink Floyd songs to feature lead vocals from an outside artist.
Durga McBroom is an American singer who has performed backing vocals for Pink Floyd and is a member of the house music band Blue Pearl, best known for their hit single "Naked in the Rain". She works as an actress, dancer, and singer in the United States and internationally.
A slightly shortened version of the song appears on Pink Floyd's greatest hits collection, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, [7] which is edited so that the song "Sheep" (also edited) segues into "Sorrow". David Gilmour played the song at the Strat Pack guitar concert, an event which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster.
Fury signed on as a backing singer for Pink Floyd's 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour' (1987–88) and the 'Another Lapse Tour' (1989) after being introduced to the band by her former boyfriend James Guthrie, Pink Floyd's longtime recording engineer.
Syd Barrett was the guiding light of the original Pink Floyd — the band’s singer, primary songwriter and guitarist from their first day until their psychedelia-defining 1967 debut album ...
Venetta Lee Fields (born 1941) is an American-born Australian singer and musical theater actress, and vocal coach.. Fields was a backing vocalist for touring American and British rock and pop acts of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as working as a session recording vocalist, she worked with artists including Ike & Tina Turner, Pink Floyd, Humble Pie, Barbra Streisand, Elkie Brooks, Neil Diamond ...
The band stopped using female singers for the In the Flesh tour in 1977, instead the band were joined by Snowy White on guitar, bass and backing vocals, alongside Parry on saxophone and keyboards. During the recording of The Wall (1979), the band became dissatisfied with Wright's lack of contribution and fired him. [ 27 ]