On account of the Scottish singer Annie Lennox as many as 8 figurines BRIT Awards. Few stars can boast so many awards. In addition, the star is the owner of the Golden Globe, Grammy and even Oscar.
Romantic youth Annie Lennox
Annie was born on the day of Catholic Christmas in 1954 in the small town of Aberdeen. Parents noticed their daughter's talent early and tried their best to develop it. So the 17-year-old girl became a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London without any problems. For 3 years, having mastered the game on the flute, piano and harpsichord.
Arriving in the British capital from a small town, Annie was so shocked. The singer wanted to quit everything on the very first day and leave for her homeland. The romance so drawn in her imagination was not combined with the harsh routine. But then she descended from heaven to sinful earth and began to gnaw at the granite of science.
There was a catastrophic lack of money, so in her free time the girl had to earn extra money as a waitress and a saleswoman. In addition to dirty, hateful work, she was also engaged in creative work, giving performances in restaurants as part of the Windsong ensemble and playing the flute to compatriots from Dragon's Playground.
Soloist in the late 70s in the pop group The Tourists, Lennox had a fateful meeting with David Stewart. Their life paths with the musician from that moment were tightly intertwined.
Successful duet Annie Lennox
Together with a new acquaintance, they organized Eurythmics in 1980. They performed synth-pop compositions as a duet. Together they recorded dozens of songs that became real hits, under which it was tempting to start dancing.
A video was filmed for the song "Sweet Dreams". In the frames of the video, gold and silver discs were hung everywhere, as if foreshadowing an unprecedented success for the track. Despite the fact that the video will soon celebrate its 40th anniversary, the number of views on YouTube is steadily approaching three hundred million views.
"Sweet Dreams" even made it into the top 500 greatest songs of all time, at number 356. The original version of the track can be heard by watching the feature film Bitter Moon.
The single "There Must Be an Angel" topped the English charts. In total, the Eurythmics duo released 9 discs, one of which "Peace" (1999) was released after the breakup of the group. After 1990, the paths of the two creative personalities diverged. Both began to perform solo.
Solo work of Annie Lennox
In 1992, Annie Lennox released her debut album called "Diva", which brought the star unprecedented fame. In England, 1,2 million records were sold, and in America even more - 2 million copies. "Love Song for a Vampire" from this album became the track for Coppola's film "Dracula" (1992)
In the second album "Medusa" (1995), cover versions of colleagues appeared - famous male musicians. The female performance of the hits was to the liking of the Canadians and the British. In these countries, they reached number 1 on the national charts. In others, too, they were in leading positions.
Annie refused the world tour, as she did not want to promote other people's songs. She limited herself to a single concert, which took place in New York's Central Park.
The next album "Bare" in 2003 was warmly received by the public and even received a Grammy nomination, but, unfortunately, without success. But a year later, the soundtrack to the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" performed by Lennox was awarded an Oscar. It was this composition that finally received the Grammy and even won the Golden Globe.
The fourth album titled "Songs of Mass Destruction" contained "powerful emotional songs". "The Annie Lennox Collection" - a compilation released in 2009, was on the most prestigious top spot in England for 7 weeks in a row, although there were few new singles in it. The main part was made up of the best, time-tested songs of the singer.
In 2014, Lennox remembered her passion for covers by releasing a collection of famous blues and jazz songs that the singer loved so much in a new arrangement.
Husbands and children Annie Lennox
Despite global feminism and androgenic clothing style, the Scot has been married three times. She first married a German Krishna monk, Radha Raman. But this mistake of youth lasted only two years.
The next marriage was longer and happier. True, the first child from film producer Uri Fruchtman was born dead. Although the parents, in anticipation of the baby, have already come up with the name Daniel.
Idle journalists then secretly entered the ward to the woman in labor, who was dying from grief. After that, she began to keep all the details of her personal life under lock and key. The couple subsequently had two girls, who were named Lola and Tali. True, their photographs never appeared in the press.
After a divorce from the father of her daughters, the singer was single for 12 years, but then she married a third time. Her chosen one this time was the doctor Mitchell Besser. Together they began to actively engage in charitable activities, trying with all their might to fight the spread of AIDS.
Lately, Lennox has been doing more social work than art. She became the organizer of The Circle Foundation. The organization supported women who, due to gender inequality, are deprived of the opportunity to receive appropriate education.
Annie Lennox was even awarded the Music Industry Trusts Award, and not for success in the music field, but as an activist in the fight for women's rights. Although in 2019 in "Private War" - a film about a military correspondent - you can hear the voice of the singer in the soundtrack.
