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Joan Armatrading

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British singer and musician

United KingdomMusiciansBorn 1950 · age 75
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Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her first major commercial success came with her third and fourth albums, Joan Armatrading (1976) and Show Some Emotion (1977), and she continues to play live and record studio albums.

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Joan Armatrading
said · May 1985
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In America you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

Quoted in Spin magazine, May 1985

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2013honorary doctorate
1996Ivor Novello Awards
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her first major commercial success came with her third and fourth albums, Joan Armatrading (1976) and Show Some Emotion (1977), and she continues to play live and record studio albums. A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
living
Dates
Born 1950 · age 75
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