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Kate Bush
English singer, pianist and songwriter (born 1958)
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.
Kim Wilde
English pop singer (born 1960)
PJ Harvey
English singer-songwriter
Marianne Faithfull
English singer and actress (1946–2025)
Florence Welch
English musician, singer and songwriter
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".
Kate Nash
British musician
Imogen Heap
British musician
Beth Gibbons
British singer
Alison Moyet
British singer
Joan Armatrading
British singer and musician
Siouxsie Sioux
English singer
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.
Sandy Denny
British singer (1947–1978)
Skin
British singer
Gillian Gilbert
English musician, keyboardist, guitarist and singer
Annie Haslam
singer, songwriter, and painter
Toyah Willcox
British singer and actress
Megan Burns
British singer and actress
Justine Frischmann
English musician
Sonja Kristina
English singer
Hazel O'Connor
English singer-songwriter and actress
Susan Ann Sulley
British pop singer
Sara Dallin
British pop singer
Danielle Dax
British musician
KatieJane Garside
English singer
Pauline Black
British actress and Ska singer
Joanne Catherall
British pop singer
Wendy James
English singer
Keren Woodward
British singer
Kelli Ali
English vocalist
Emmy the Great
English Singer-Songwriter
Ellie Rowsell
English singer and musician
Beki Bondage
English singer and guitarist
Rhoda Dakar
British singer and musician