Singer Annie Lennox is not only one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Winner of the Golden Globe. Oscars, several Grammys and BRIT Awards is also one of the best-selling musicians in the world. The vocalist achieved her highest popularity when she started a solo career.
Little is known about Annie Lennox's childhood and adolescence. However, the artist does not hide that the desire to engage in creativity appeared early in her.
The path to glory
The biography of the future celebrity began in 1954. The child was born in Scottish Aberdeen on December 25. The parents strove to develop the natural abilities of their daughter. Seventeen-year-old Annie became a student at the London Royal Academy of Music, learned to play the harpsichord, piano and mastered the flute.
The girl performed in local pubs and cafes with the Windsong group. In 1976, she collaborated as a flute player with the Dragon's Playground, with which she took part in the casting of the New Faces competition. The Tourists got acquainted with David Stewart. Together, the young people created the duet "Eurythmics" in 1980.
The musicians chose the synth-pop style, and Annie's vocals were a feature of their project. The most famous was the single "Sweet Dreams". The album received the same name in 1983. The hit reached high positions in the charts and sounded in several films. Many of the duo's compositions have become super hits.
New takeoff
Lennox's solo career started on April 20, 1992. The singer presented the album "Diva", which immediately took off to the top lines of the national charts and sold out in gigantic numbers. The single "Why" was recognized as the most successful.
The listeners received the new collection "Medusa" in 1995. It was composed of cover versions of hits previously performed only by men. The vocalist's interpretations were approved both at home and abroad. Lennox, instead of touring, held a grandiose concert in New York in early fall 1995, recorded on disk.
The most successful album was "Bare" in 2003. It was nominated for a Grammy. A year later, the singer was awarded an Oscar for the song to the final part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The composition "Into the West" was also awarded the Golden Globe and the Grammy.
The 2007 collection “Songs of Mass Destruction” became the most impressive in terms of the intensity of emotions. The Sing collaboration was recorded by 23 of the world's most famous female vocalists.
Family and vocation
The CD with the singer's best hits, presented in 2009, remained in the top ten UK songs for 7 weeks, and after the album of Christmas singles "A Christmas Cornucopia", a cover compilation "Nostalgia" was released in 2014. It is composed of the favorite blues and jazz compositions of the artist.
The singer has established her personal life three times. Her first chosen one in 1984 was Radha Raman. The marriage broke up a year later. Happier turned out to be an alliance with film producer Uri Fruchtman. The persistence of the paparazzi, who sought by any means to find out the details of the family's existence, forced the singer to keep secret even the photographs of the daughters Tali and Lola.
In 2012, Lennox became the wife of the doctor Mitchell Besser. At his suggestion, Annie was actively involved in charity work. In 2013, she received the Music Industry Trusts Award not only as a musician, but also for her advocacy for women's rights. Since October 2017, the artist's charity fund “The Circle” has been operating.
The artist's song "Requiem for a Private War" became the title song in the film "Private War", which premiered in 2019. Lennox is not actively involved in concert activities, having completely switched to public.
