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Shirley Bassey

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2009 - The Performance
1997 - Shirley
1995 - Sings the Movies
1993 - Shirley Bassey Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber
1984 - I Am What I Am
1982 - All by Myself
1978 - Yesterdays
1977 - You Take My Heart Away
1976 - Love, Life and Feelings
1975 - Good, Bad but Beautiful
1974 - Nobody Does It Like Me
1973 - Never, Never, Never
1972 - I Capricorn
1971 - Something Else
1970 - Something
1969 - Does Anybody Miss Me
1968 - 12 of Those Songs
1968 - This Is My Life
1967 - And We Were Lovers
1966 - I've Got a Song for You
1965 - Shirley Stops the Shows
1962 - Shirley Bassey Sings The Hit Song From Oliver Plus Other Pop
1962 - Let's Face the Music
1961 - Shirley Bassey
1959 - The Fabulous Shirley Bassey
1959 - The Bewitching Miss Bassey
1957 - Born To Sing The Blues

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1 Female

Origin
Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales

Genre
Pop

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Epic

Born

1937

Active
1937 to Present...

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Alternate Name
Dame Shirley Bassey

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4 users Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
4 users Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
4 users Shirley Bassey - Big Spender
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4 users Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire


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Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE (/ˈbæsi/; born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer. Born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, she began performing as a teenager in 1953. She became well-known for her expressive voice and for recording the soundtrack theme songs of the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). In January 1959, Bassey became the first Welsh person to gain a number-one single on the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, with the release of her most recent album, I Owe It All To You, Bassey became the first female artist to chart an album in the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart in seven consecutive decades.

In 2000, Bassey was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to the performing arts. In 1977, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist. Bassey is widely regarded as one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain.

Early life
Shirley Veronica Bassey, the sixth and youngest child of Henry Bassey and Eliza Jane Start, was born on Bute Street, Tiger Bay, Cardiff. She grew up in the nearby community of Splott. Her father was Nigerian, and her mother came from Teesside.

Two of her mother's four children from previous relationships lived in the Bassey household. Bassey's mother listed her first husband, Alfred Metcalfe, as her own father in the registry of her marriage to Henry Bassey, giving rise to speculation that this marriage was bigamous in the absence of a prior divorce. Eliza and Henry's second child died in infancy, so Shirley was born into a household of three sisters, two half-sisters, and one brother.

Teachers and students alike at Moorland Road School noticed Bassey's strong voice, but gave the pre-teen little encouragement: "...everyone told me to shut up. Even in the school choir the teacher kept telling me to back off till I was singing in the corridor!" A classmate recalled her singing the refrain "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Show Boat with such feeling that she made their teacher uncomfortable. She left Splott secondary modern school aged 14 to work at Curran Steels and, in the evenings and weekends, to sing in local pubs and clubs.


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