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The single was Grammy-nominated for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" of 1983. [12] The follow-up single, "Almost Over You", reached the US Top 30 and was a number 4 AC chart hit. "Almost Over You" was very popular in Asia and was covered by Chinese singer Cass Pang. It also became a hit on the Country charts for Lila McCann in 1998. [13]
Ann Lennox OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics.
Claire Patricia Grogan (born 17 March 1962), known professionally as Clare Grogan or sometimes as C. P. Grogan, is a Scottish actress and singer.She is best known as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave music group Altered Images, as well as for supporting roles in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf as the first incarnation of Kristine Kochanski.
Scottish women singers by century (4 C) C. Scottish contraltos (8 P) G. Scottish girl groups (4 P) J. Scottish women jazz singers (5 P) M. Scottish mezzo-sopranos (1 ...
Also in 1976, she was credited for her cameo vocal on "Sister Mary" a No. 2 hit in Ireland for Joe Dolan. Her 1977 single, "Run to Me", was a hit in the Netherlands (No. 22) and South Africa (No. 5), [4] while in Canada, the B-side of "Run to Me" titled "Listen to the Children" reached No. 36 on the Canadian A.C. chart on 17 September 1977. [5]
Early the following year, she had a more modest US hit with "If I Were You", which just missed the Top 40, appeared in the video for "Ant Rap" alongside Adam and the Ants, and was nominated for a Grammy for "Who's Foolin' Who" from the "Lulu" album. She won the Rear of the Year award in 1983 [33] and rerecorded a number of her songs.
The Scotsman newspaper has described her as Scotland's best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976. [ 3 ] She is also a two-time Olivier Award -winning actress, [ 4 ] with roles including Viv Nicholson in the musical Spend Spend Spend , and was the original Mrs ...
It includes singer-songwriters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Scottish women singer-songwriters" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.