Barbara Dickson
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British singer and actress, recording artist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Mountains for Maddi
- Vitamin "X"
- Decameron 2020
- Lyrics
- Bomb Girls
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1947-09-27
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Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 27,485
- Total plays
- 208,950
Tags
female vocalistsScottishpopbritishmusicals musicals
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances. Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Rin
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ruth
- Family name
- Dickson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Dunfermline
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- middle of the road
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Voiceprint Records
- Official website
- www.barbaradickson.net
- Image
- Barbara Dickson (22280529515).jpg
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- nominated for
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- date of birth
- 1947-09-27
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- Commons category
- Barbara Dickson
- P12749
- Lamium purpureum
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Available in 8 languages
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