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unusual facts about backup singer



Syd Straw

A frequent backup singer and contributor to duets with other musicians, Straw has also maintained an intermittent acting career, appearing on the television shows The Adventures of Pete & Pete and Tales of the City.

Unsound Methods

Spoken word artist Maggie Estep, Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy, Songs of Faith and Devotion backup singer Hildia Campbell, and Siobhan Lynch were all vocalists.


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Benny Anderssons orkester

Helen Sjöholm - vocals, originally chosen as a backup singer, but is now also considered a permanent member of the band

Here at the Mayflower

American Idol vocal coach Debra Byrd, Manilow's longtime backup singer, makes an uncredited appearance on "Say Goodbye" and "I Don't Wanna Know" on this release only.

Julianne Phillips

During the subsequent Tunnel of Love Express Tour, Springsteen took up with backup singer and fellow New Jersey resident, Patti Scialfa.

Kelly Keeling

In those years, he toured also with Erik Norlander, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Received gold and platinum album awards from TSO, toured with Wayne Morrissons Rock4Xmas, featuring Badfinger member Joey Molland On this tour was Backup Singer for Eddie Money and did his solo career retrospective set The Kelly Keeling Show with band mates Ethan Brosh Alex Pierce and Dave Vandiggitty.

La Llamada

It was written by Selena y Los Dinos backup singer Pete Astudillo and Selena's brother, principal record producer and songwriter A.B. Quintanilla III.

It was composed by Selena y Los Dinos backup singer Pete Astudillo and Selena's brother and principal record producer A.B. Quintanilla III.

Nigel Gibbs

Owing to his long association with the club, he is also a friend of Elton John, and once filled in as a backup singer for John on a Watford tour of China.

Patricia Darcy Jones

Patty's dynamic voice led her career spanning from singing at the Paper Moon Cabaret in Greenwich Village to backup singer for Cher as well as singing with artists: Petula Clark, Joe Cocker, Billy Joel, Tom Jones, Darlene Love, Rusty Magee, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, Olivia Newton-John, Robert Plant, Todd Rundgren, Ronnie Spector, Styx and The Young Rascals.

Rosiah Chik

However, she started her career seriously son after the divorce which eventually made her to join the Cathay Keris in Singapore as a backup singer.

Sheree Jeacocke

During the early 1980s Jeacocke starred in the CBC-TV musical The King Of Friday Night and worked as a backup singer for Gordon Lightfoot, Rita MacNeil, Glass Tiger and Kim Mitchell.

T.V. Carpio

She is the daughter of Hong Kong Chinese-Filipina singer Teresa Carpio, with whom she has performed on stage as a backup singer.

Where Is Joe Merchant?

In both, a talented baker and former backup singer named Desdemona has a tryst with one of the workers "under the giant telescope", and begins receiving telepathic messages from the Pleiades, telling her to build a spaceship and "come home".

Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow

He had been listening to a sizeable amount of US soul and R&B, no doubt influenced by his new affair with a backup singer and clavinet player he had hired for his 1973 US tour – Gloria Jones.