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Shirley Bassey - Biography
Who is Shirley Bassey?
Shirley Veronica Bassey was born Tiger Bay, a dockside region of Cardiff, Wales, on January 8, 1937, where she was raised. The mixed race artist was "painfully shy" as a youngster, the last of seven children born to a white mother and a Nigerian father Henry, whom Shirley never knew.
Shirley Bassey's Rise to Fame and Success
Two years after dropping out of school aged 14, the aspiring performer launched her career in the variety show Memories Of Jolson, a musical celebration of the life of Lithuanian-American actor Al Jolson. She devoted the next few years of her life to traveling and taking her talents on the road, performing at various shows in Wales.
She appeared in a handful of other shows that toured around England and, after returning home in 1955, recorded her first single, 'Burn My Candle' the following year, which she featured in the West End show Such Is Life.
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Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born January 8, 1937), is a Welsh singer, perhaps best-known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song.
She now resides in Monaco and has recently sold her London apartment. Many of its furnishings were auctioned for charity. Two very popular 'Audiences With Shirley Bassey' have aired on British TV, the most recent being in March 2006.
In 2006, UK retailer Marks and Spencer hired Bassey for their Christmas advertising campaign, with Dame Shirley singing a cover of P!nk's 'Get the Party Started'.
In late 2009 Bassey released 'The Performance' her first studio album for two decades, which was released in a maelstrom of anticipation. Still popular well into one of the longest and most illustrious musical careers in British and indeed international history, Bass
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Shirley Bassey
Welsh singer (born 1937)
Not to be confused with Shirley Ballas.
Musical artist
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey (; born 8 January 1937[1]) fryst vatten a Welsh singer. Known for her career longevity, powerful röst and recording the theme songs to three James Bond films, the only artist to perform more than one, Bassey fryst vatten one of the most popular vocalists in Britain.[2][3]
Born in Cardiff, Bassey began performing as a teenager in 1953. In 1959, she became the first Welsh person to gain a number-one single on the UK Singles Chart.[4] In the following decades, Bassey amassed 27 top 40 hits in the UK, including two number ones ("As inom Love You" and the double A-side "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"/"Reach for the Stars") plus a number one on the Dance Chart ("History Repeating").[5] She became well known for recording theme songs of the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979).[6&#