Pauline Black

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Pauline Black (2005)

Pauline Black (born Belinda Magnus on October 23, 1953 in Romford , England ) is a British singer , actress and author , best known as the singer for the band The Selecter .

Life

Black was born to a young British Jewish woman and a Nigerian. Her father had come to London as a student and was a Yoruba prince. She was adopted by a white couple and given their last name Vickers. Black studied from 1971 at the "Lanchester Polytechnic" (today Coventry University ) and worked as an X-ray assistant in Coventry . Since then she has known her husband Terry Button, to whom she has been married since 1980.

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In 1976 Pauline sang in local pubs. In May 1979 she went with friends to a rehearsal where the band The Selecter was founded, with her as a singer. At that time, she changed her last name to Black.

Together with the bands The Specials and Madness , The Selecter founded the Two Tone movement. The band split up in 1982, but there have been several reunions since then.

Pauline Black released a few solo singles, e.g. B. Shoo-rah, Shoo-rah . In 1995 the album Prime Cuts appeared , which mainly contains compositions by Pauline Black, under the band name Pauline Black and The Selecter .

In 2010 Pauline Black went on tour with The Selecter on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the debut album Too Much Pressure . After there were disputes over the band name in 2011, Pauline Black secured the trademark rights to The Selecter . In 2015 the band toured to present the new CD Subculture .

radio

In 2007, Black voiced the BBC documentary Soul Britannia, which tells the story of British soul music. In the documentary Reggae Britannia she appears as an interviewer and as a member of The Selecter. In 2014 and 2015 she hosted programs as a guest on BBC Radio 6.

Autobiography

In 2011 Pauline Black published her autobiography Black by Design .

Web links

Commons : Pauline Black  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prime Cuts . AllMusic. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ Interview with Female First . Female first. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Black by Design - A 2-Tone Memoir . www.serpentstail.com. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Black, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magnus, Belinda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Romford , England , UK