Born: 25 December 1954, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Real Name: Ann Griselda Lennox
Her father worked at the shipyard, and her mother was a cook until she became a housewife. Lennox was an only child and the family lived in a small two-roomed apartment in a block of flats with communal laundry facilities. Her father and his family were musical and enjoyed singing. Her father also learned to play the bagpipes, which Lennox enjoyed listening to. Despite her family's financial status, Lennox had piano lessons at school from the age of seven years at the cost of ??4.00 per term. She was interested in singing and, with plenty of time by herself, passed some of the time by singing along to the popular music of the time, including music by The Beatles. She was an unhappy teenager, partly because of a struggle over boundaries for her independence with her overprotective father. She attended Aberdeen High School for Girls, now Harlaw Academy. In 1964, her early talent was demonstrated when she came second in a talent contest at a Butlins holiday camp. She sang the song 'Marie's Wedding'.
Love affairs:
Uri Fruchtmann (15 July 1988 - 2000) (divorced) 2 children
Radha Raman (14 March 1984 - 1985) (divorced)
Resume:
Several albums with Eurythmics.
Solo albums:
Diva (1992),
Medusa (1995),
Bare (2003),
Song of Mass Destruction (2007),
and more than a dozen of singles.
Well known for: Very short haircut.
Trivia
Her first husband, Radha Raman, was a Hare Krishna monk.
Was with Eurythmics. She has a four-octave voice.
Quotes:
"I love to be individual, to step beyond gender."
[on being private about her life] "What did you expect? I'm human; I feel what anybody else feels. There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages. I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess."
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