Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey is a Welsh singer. Known for her career longevity, powerful voice and recording the theme songs to three James Bond films, the only artist to perform more than one, Bassey is one of the most popular vocalists in Britain.
Jane Mallory Birkin was a British-French actress and singer. She had a prolific career as an actress, mostly in French cinema.
Daphne Blake Oram was a British composer and electronic musician. She was one of the first British composers to produce electronic sound, and was an early practitioner of musique concrète in the UK. As a co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she was central to the development of British electronic music. Her uncredited scoring work on the 1961 film The Innocents helped to pioneer the electronic soundtrack.
Petula Clark CBE is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child performer and has had the longest career of any British entertainer, spanning more than 85 years.
BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also featuring. The station has described itself as "the world's most significant commissioner of new music".
The BBC Concert Orchestra is a British concert orchestra based in London, one of the British Broadcasting Corporation's five radio orchestras. With around fifty players, it is the only one of the five BBC orchestras which is not a full-scale symphony orchestra. The BBC Concert Orchestra is the BBC's most populist ensemble, playing a mixture of classical music, light music and popular numbers. Its primary role is to produce music for radio broadcast, and it is the resident orchestra of the world's longest-running live music programme, Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 3.
Clare Teal is an English singer and broadcaster who has become famous not only for her singing, but also for having signed the biggest recording contract by a British jazz singer.
Jane Gazzo is an Australian radio and television presenter, performance and club DJ, television personality, voice artist, author, and music journalist.
Jane Anne McDonald is an English singer and television presenter. Born and raised in Wakefield, McDonald spent much of her early career performing in local clubs and pubs before landing work as a singer on cruise ships. McDonald became known to the public in 1998 following her appearance on the BBC show The Cruise. The same year, she released her self-titled debut album Jane McDonald (1998), which topped the UK Albums Chart and remained there for 3 weeks.
Reem Kelani is a British Palestinian musician. She was born in Manchester, England, and was initially influenced by the jazz music her father played on his record player. Her interest in Palestinian music was sparked by the music at a family wedding in her maternal home in Galilee in the 1970s.
Errollyn Wallen is a Belize-born British composer and musician, who moved as a child with her family to London, England.
Elizabeth Poston was an English composer, pianist and writer.
Danielle Egnew is an American psychic medium, musician, media personality, actress and activist. Egnew currently resides in Billings with her wife Rebecca Douglas, who she married on November 20, 2014.
Madeleine Louise Mitchell MMus, ARCM, GRSM, FRSA is a British violinist who has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in over forty countries. She has a wide repertoire and is particularly known for commissioning and premiering new works and for promoting British music in concert and on disc.
Helen Jane Long is a British composer, musician and pianist, best known for various advertisement contracts, work on several film projects in a variety of genres, and contemporary-classical piano albums, Embers (2010) (BLE) and Porcelain. In 2003, Long worked as music assistant to Howard Shore on the film score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Long composed the original music for the movie thrillers The Only Hotel and Surveillance 24/7. As the world's highest streaming female pianist, Long's songs have been streamed more than one billion times.
Spiro is a British instrumental musical group based in Bristol, England, consisting of Jane Harbour Alex Vann (mandolin) Jason Sparkes and Jon Hunt (guitar). To date they have released four albums on the UK label Real World Records.
Janet Feder is a Denver, Colorado–based composer and guitarist. She is a classically trained guitar player best known for her work in the prepared guitar genre. In addition, Janet Feder is: a lecturer at the University of Colorado; co-curator of MediaLive, an annual festival in Boulder, Colorado; and an Artistic Associate of Square Product Theatre.
Rebecca Jane Grosvenor Taylor, known professionally as Riva Taylor, is an English singer, songwriter and actress.
Jane Antonia Cornish is an English composer. She is based in Los Angeles, California, and focuses on contemporary classical music.
A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio 3, a British national radio station which began broadcasting in September 1967.
