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This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. British women singers by century (8 C) English women singers (9 C, 312 P) Women singers from Northern Ireland (4 C, 11 P) Scottish women singers (10 C) Welsh women singers (7 C, 3 P)
EMI Columbia. Website. almacogan2018.com. Alma Angela Cohen Cogan[ 1 ] (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
Further covers of "Hey There" and "Jimmy Unknown" gave her small hits in the mid-1950s. [6] Roza disliked her hit single so much that she never performed it live. [7] She remained a top UK recording artist during the remainder of the 1950s and was voted the Top British Female Singer in the New Musical Express poll winners' charts from 1951 to 1955.
Yana (singer) Yana (born Pamela Guard; 16 February 1931 – 21 November 1989) was a British singer. Achieving significant fame in Britain in the late-1950s, by the time of her 1989 death, she was generally forgotten. Though the Daily Telegraph obituaries page [relevant?] noted her demise and included the obituary in one of its published ...
This list of British music hall performers includes a related list of British Variety entertainers. ... Kate Carney (1869–1950) [16] Mrs Caulfield (1817–1870) [6]
maryhopkin.com. Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti from her marriage to Tony Visconti, is a Welsh singer best known for her 1968 UK number 1 single "Those Were the Days". She was one of the first artists to be signed to the Beatles ' Apple label.
Skiffle. Skiffle is a type of folk music with jazz, blues and country influences, usually using homemade or improvised instruments, which had originated as a term in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. It became popular again in Britain in the 1950s, where it was associated with musician Lonnie Donegan, whose high-tempo ...
There is a broader genre spectrum of music to listen to now which limits the number of listeners. Bias towards modern artists. Comparatively fewer successful pre-modern artists will have sold more records, as both global spending power and population have increased. In 1950, the world's population was 2.5 billion; by 2000 it had risen to 6 ...