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Sarah Brightman
Edit- Born:
- August 14, 1960, she's 51 and English.
- Birthname:
- Sarah Brightman.
- Snapshot:
- An Artist with 90 releases, and credited 12 times on others' music. 21 collaborations and 3 musical relatives.
Biography
EditSarah Brightman's rise to fame started as a dancer with troupes including Pan’s People and their raunchier peers, Hot Gossip. Her first musical success was with Hot Gossip when they had a 1978 hit with “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper”. After the second release by Hot Gossip failed to perform as successfully, she embarked on a solo career releasing several disco-flavoured singles.
By 1981, with her recording career failing to achieve any real prominence, she auditioned for a role in the musical Cats. Not only did she get the part, but she met and eventually married Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of the musical. She went on to star in several of Lloyd Webber’s productions throughout the 80s - though by 1990 she and Lloyd Webber were separated and her career in musicals was over.
She moved to LA with the intention of re-starting her solo recording career and by 1991 she had formed an alliance with Frank Peterson who was known for his work with Enigma. The result of the collaboration was a new direction, this time towards ambient electronica with the album Dive (1993). Her next album Fly (1995) shifted again, this time towards pop/rock and she found an unlikely hit in the operatic rock-tinged “A Question of Honour”; the album also contained a duet with Tom Jones called "Something in the Air". Timeless (1997) (Time to Say Goodbye in the US) resulted in the hit “Time to Say Goodbye”, in which she performed a duet with Andrea Bocelli.
After two further classical crossover albums, Eden (1998) and La Luna (2000), she released Classics (2001), a CD of operatic arias. Then followed an album of Middle Eastern-themed music Harem (2003), and a gothic metal-flavoured release, Symphony in 2008.
She has sold 70 million albums worldwide (including the sales of the original cast soundtrack of "The Phantom of the Opera") and 26 million records as a soloist in the last 11 years alone.
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