Biography
Born on 15 December 1956 in Cobham, Surrey, England, she had previously performed in the Marshall Hain band alongside her then-partner Julian Marshall. Their 1979 single ‘Dancing In The City’ achieved major success, yet Marshall soon departed under the weight of that sudden attention. After the duo’s label dropped them, her initial solo outing arrived on Harvest Records with the track ‘The Joke’s On You’. Subsequent deals took her first to Decca Records and later to Mercury Records, where she issued multiple singles and albums. Relocating to the USA in 1985, she built a thriving career writing songs for others. Among her compositions are ‘Fires Of Eden’ for Cher, ‘Back To Avalon’ for Heart, ‘Rip In Heaven’ and ‘Crash And Burn’ for ’Til Tuesday, ‘Further From Fantasy’ for Annie Haslam, and both ‘Remind My Heart’ and ‘Every Time We Fall’ for Miss Saigon’s Lea Salonga. Additional recordings of her material have come from Roger Daltrey, Kiki Dee, Barbara Dickson, Nicki Gregoroff, Cheryl Beattie and Kim Criswell.
Albums