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| Birth Name(s) : Ann Lennox |
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Full Annie Lennox Biography
Annie Lennox (born Ann Lennox on 25 December 1954) is a Scottish musician and vocalist. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the duo Eurythmics, called "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll 1999. As a solo artist, and with Eurythmics, she has sold approximately 80 million records.
She began working with former Trevor Horn protege Stephen Lipson, beginning with Lennox' 1992 solo debut album, Diva, was an unambiguous commercial and critical success. Her profile was boosted by Diva's singles (including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass"), numerous awards, and "Love Song for a Vampire", a soundtrack cut for Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula. The B-side of her single "Precious" was a self-penned song called "Step by Step", which was later covered by Whitney Houston for the soundtrack album of The Preacher's Wife and became a hit in its own right. Stephen Lipson has consistently been involved in Lennox' solo offerings, providing a sonic unity within her solo recordings that is seldom found in popular music and is most desirable to an artist's fanbase.
Her profile decreased for a period due to her desire to bring up her two children outside of the media's glare, although she continued to be a major figure in popular music. Her next release, Medusa, an album of cover songs originally performed by such artists as Bob Marley and The Clash, was released three years after Diva. The single "No More I Love You's" received the 1995 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. A cover of Paul Simon's song 'Something So Right' made the UK Top 50 when released as a single. In 1997, she re-recorded the Eurythmics track "Angel" for the Diana, Princess of Wales tribute album. In 1998 — following the death of a mutual friend (the former The Tourists lead singer/songwriter Peet Coombes) — she re-established contact with Dave Stewart, and by 1999 Eurythmics had reformed for the album Peace. In 2003, she released her third solo album, Bare, which was accompanied by her first ever solo tour which played venues around the world.
In 2004, Lennox won the Academy Award for Best Song for "Into the West" from the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King at the 76th Academy Awards. The song also won a Grammy award and a Golden Globe award as well. She had previously recorded "Use Well the Days" for the movie, which incorporates a number of quotations from Tolkien in its lyrics. This song was not used in the film, but it appears on a bonus DVD included with the "special edition" of the movie's soundtrack CD.
In July 2005, Lennox performed at Live 8 in Hyde Park, London, along with Madonna, Sting and many of her peers.
Lennox and Stewart later collaborated on two new pieces for their Eurythmics hits album, Ultimate Collection, one of which, "I've Got a Life", was released as a single on October 31, 2005. The promotional video for the song features Lennox and Stewart performing in the present day, with images of past Eurythmics videos playing on television screens behind them. Lennox also appears in a man's suit with a cane, reminiscent of her "Sweet Dreams" video image from 1983. The single hit number fourteen in the UK singles chart and was a number-one U.S. Dance hit. Lennox has been awarded the most BRIT Awards for a woman, with a total of 7, including 1 as part of Eurythmics. The closest female artist to her number of awards is Lisa Stansfield with 3.
In October 2006, Lennox spoke at the British House of Commons on the need for children in the UK to help their less fortunate counterparts in Africa.
The album was recorded in LA with veteran producer Glen Ballard (of Jagged Little Pill fame), marking a change from her long association with producer Steve Lipson. Mixing on the album took place in Miami by Grammy winner Tom Lord-Alge.
After an incident disturbing to Annie, in which a "Mass Destruction" fan approached the stage in full costume, including gas mask and platform boots, Annie and her management company have asked that all fans wear normal 'business casual' attire and do not wear clothing or apparel that covers their face or significant portions of their heads.
On September 13, 2007, Lennox announced a primarily North American tour for Songs of Mass Destruction called "Annie Lennox Sings," which is only the third solo tour of her career. The tour will include 18 stops, including San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Boulder, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Atlanta, Miami, New York City (two dates), Philadelphia, and Boston. The venues generally are at medium-size theatres, except in New York, where one of the dates is a United Nations fundraiser at Wall Street restaurant Cipriani. While performing in Boulder, Colorado (October 2007) Lennox fled the stage when a man wearing a gas mask and cape appeared in the crowd towards the end of her set at Macky Auditorium. Lennox spotted the man approaching the stage, tossed her microphone to the ground, and ducked backstage without saying a word to the audience, quickly retiring to her tour bus. She describes the incident as “really freakish and disturbing” Police declined to release the name of the masked man due to no laws being broken. Autographs were not available. |
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