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Adele
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a British cultural icon, she is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. Her accolades include 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards (including three for British Album of the Year), an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa is an English singer and songwriter. Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards.
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline, Lady Beckham, is an English fashion designer, singer, and television personality. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Posh Spice. After the Spice Girls disbanded in 2000, Beckham signed with Virgin Records to release her debut solo album Victoria Beckham, which produced two UK Top 10 singles. Beckham has also become an internationally recognised style icon and fashion designer.
Rita Ora
English-Albanian singer and actress
Ellie Goulding
British singer (born 1986)
Olivia Newton-John
English and Australian singer (1948-2022)
Kate Bush
English singer, pianist and songwriter (born 1958)
Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her accolades include a Brit Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Charli XCX
Charlotte Emma Aitchison, known professionally as Charli XCX, is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She began posting songs on Myspace in 2008 before entering the London rave scene. Signing a recording contract with Asylum Records in 2010, Charli XCX released a series of singles and mixtapes in the early 2010s. In 2012, she was featured on "I Love It" by Swedish duo Icona Pop, which became her first number-one song in the UK and received global success, but her debut studio album, True Romance (2013), failed to meet commercial expectations.
Jessie J
English singer (born 1988)
Jane Birkin
British-French actress and singer (1946–2023)
Dido
English singer and songwriter (born 1971)
Geri Halliwell
English singer and actress
Emma Bunton
British singer
Cheryl
British singer, dancer, and television presenter
Melanie C
British pop singer
Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (born 7 April 1990) is an English singer and songwriter. She has achieved commercial success with songs "Alarm" (2016), "Ciao Adios" (2017), "Friends" (2018), "2002" (2018), "Rewrite The Stars" (2018), "Don't Play" (2021), "Kiss My (Uh-Oh)" (2021), "Psycho" (2022), "Baby Don't Hurt Me" (2023), and "Unhealthy" (2023). She was featured on Clean Bandit's "Rockabye" (2016), which peaked at number one in twenty-seven terrorities, including the United Kingdom. She has released 3 albums: Speak Your Mind (2018), which peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart, Therapy (20
Kim Wilde
English pop singer (born 1960)
Birdy
British singer
Petula Clark
British singer and actress
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British singer (born 1979)
Dusty Springfield
British singer (1939–1999)
Samantha Fox
British singer
Melanie Brown
British singer, actress and television personality
Pixie Lott
British singer, songwriter, actress
Jess Glynne
Jessica Hannah Glynne is an English singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence in 2014 as a featured artist on the singles "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit and "My Love" by Route 94, both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Glynne signed with Atlantic Records to release her debut studio album, I Cry When I Laugh (2015). Despite mixed critical response, it debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and spawned the successful singles "Hold My Hand" and "Don't Be So Hard on Yourself".
Raye
Rachel Agatha Keen (born 24 October 1997), known professionally as Raye ( ), is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Lyrically focusing on her own struggles and contemporary issues, Raye's genre-blending music is influenced by jazz and incorporates pop, dance, R&B, and soul.
Billie Piper
Billie Paul Piper is an English actress and former singer. She initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at the age of 15, which made her the youngest female singer to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one. Her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also entered at number one. In 1998, Piper released her debut studio album, Honey to the B, which was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Her second studio album, Walk of Life, was released in 2000 and spawned her third number-one single, "Day & Night". In 2003, Piper announced that she had ended her music career to focus on acting.
Kate Nash
British musician
Natalie Horler
German singer
Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith Blomfield is an English singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. After signing with Epic Records in 2008, Faith released her debut album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? (2009), which produced the UK top-twenty singles "Stone Cold Sober" and "New York". Her second album, Fall to Grace (2012), charted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, earned her two Brit Award nominations, and spawned her first UK top-ten single "Picking Up the Pieces" and the top-twenty cover version of INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart".
Lisa Stansfield
British singer
PinkPantheress
Victoria Beverley Walker (born 19 April 2001), known professionally as PinkPantheress, is a British singer-songwriter and record producer. Her music blends styles such as drum and bass, UK garage, house, and alternative pop, often sampling music from the 1990s and 2000s and featuring affable stream-of-consciousness lyrics. She was named Producer of the Year by Billboard Women in Music in 2024 and was later named British Producer of the Year at the 2026 Brit Awards, becoming the youngest person and first woman in history to be awarded the honor.
Alexandra Burke
British singer and songwriter
Cilla Black
English singer and media personality (1943–2015)
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
Caroline Munro
English actress and model
Molly Smitten-Downes
English singer
Imogen Heap
British musician
Teddy Sinclair
British singer and actress
Jade Ewen
English singer and actress
Ella Henderson
British singer
Mae Muller
British singer
Jesy Nelson
British singer
Jorja Smith
British singer
Alison Moyet
British singer
Connie Talbot
British singer
Sarah Harding
British singer and actress (1981-2021)
Bat for Lashes
English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Kathy Kirby
British singer (1938–2011)
Lola Young
Lola Emily Mary Young is an English musician. Born and raised in South London, she attracted attention in 2016 when she won the under-16 category of Open Mic UK and reached the finals of Got What It Takes?. She released her debut single in October 2019 and then the EPs Intro, Renaissance, and After Midnight. In 2021, she recorded a version of Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey's "Together in Electric Dreams" for that year's John Lewis Christmas advert. Around this time, she was nominated for the Brit Award for Rising Star and came fourth on the BBC's Sound of....
Ella Eyre
British singer and songwriter
Antigoni Buxton
English-Cypriot singer-songwriter (born 1996)
Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty Anna MacColl was a British singer and songwriter. The daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl, she recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" and cover versions of Billy Bragg's "A New England" and the Kinks' "Days". She also sang on a number of recordings produced by her husband Steve Lillywhite, most notably "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues. Her first single, "They Don't Know", would have chart success a few years later when covered by Tracey Ullman. Her death in 2000 led to the "Justice for Kirsty" campaign.
Sheridan Smith
British actress
SuRie
Susanna Marie Cork (born 18 February 1989), known professionally as SuRie, is an English singer and songwriter. She was born in Harlow, Essex, and raised in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
Alice Merton
German-Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1993)
Hannah Spearritt
British singer and actress
Little Boots
English electronic musician and singer
Lynsey de Paul
English singer-songwriter (1948–2014)