June Tabor
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June Tabor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Chart positions Explanation of the data |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albums | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
June Tabor (born December 31, 1947 in Warwick , England ) is a British jazz, classical and folk music singer.
life and work
June Tabor trained as a librarian at Oxford University . In the mid-1970s, she started a career as a singer. Her education helped her choose melodies and lyrics that were sometimes very difficult to find. With Maddy Prior from the folk rock band Steeleye Span , she formed the vocal duo Silly Sisters in 1978, which recorded a record of traditional folk songs under this name in the same year. The second production of the Silly Sisters followed ten years later with the album No More to the Dance . In addition, she often worked with the folk guitarist Martin Simpson and recorded two folk rock albums in cooperation with the Oysterband .
June Tabor made her debut as a solo artist in 1976 with a ballad album with English traditionals , airs & graces . With her soft alto voice she likes to interpret ballads and chanson-like songs. She sang many pieces a cappella , but has been playing with the jazz musician and composer Huw Warren for several years . In addition to English-language songs, she sang songs in Yiddish and French.
June Tabor lives with her husband, violinist Mark Emerson of Ensemble 1651 , in County Shropshire , England .
Discography
Albums
- 1976: Airs & Graces (Topic)
- 1977: Ashes and Diamonds (Topic)
- 1978: Silly Sisters , together with Maddy Prior
- 1980: A Cut Above, with Martin Simpson (Topic)
- 1983: Abyssinians (Topic)
- 1986: The Peel Sessions (recorded by John Peel 1977)
- 1988: Aquaba (Topic)
- 1988: Silly Sisters - No More to the Dance , together with Maddy Prior
- 1990: Freedom and Rain , together with the Oysterband ( Cooking Vinyl )
- 1992: Angel Tiger (Cooking Vinyl)
- 1994: Against the Streams
- 1996: Singing the Storm , with Danny Thompson and Savourna Stevenson
- 1997: Aleyn (Topic)
- 2000: A Quiet Eye (Topic / In-Akustik)
- 2002: Rosa Mundi (Topic)
- 2003: Anthology - The Definitive Collection (Highpoint Recordings)
- 2003: An Echo of Hooves (Normal / Indigo)
- 2005: At the Wood's Heart
- 2007: Apples (Topic)
- 2011: Ashore (Topic)
- 2011: Ragged Kingdom , together with the Oysterband (Topic)
- 2013: Quercus , together with Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren ( ECM ; Prize of the German Record Critics 2013)
- 2018: An Introduction to June Tabor (Topic)
Awards (selection)
- BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2004: Singer Of The Year & Best Traditional Track - Hughie Graeme
- MOJO Folk Album Of The Year for An Echo of Hooves
- German Record Critics' Award (annual award) for Quercus (2013).
swell
Web links
- Official Homepage (English)
- Article about June Tabor in the Sunday Times 2005
- Review of the album An Echo of Hooves (2003) in the specialist journal Folker
- News (with photo) (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tabor, June |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz, classical and folk music singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warwick , England |