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- "Leave your preconceptions at home," begins one London critic's assessment of sensual singer-songwriter-actress Sarah Jane Morris, who straddles blues, rock, jazz and soul with a goosebump-raising four octave range that rumbles from the heels of her size nine shoes to the tips of her flame-red mane. Some hear Sarah Vaughan or Billie Holiday in her voice, others cite Macy Gray and Erykah Badu, although Morris herself likes to say: "Nina Simone meets Janis Joplin." Yet always her own woman, Sarah Jane Morris is a truly independent spirit with a stunningly expressive voice who's been making exciting music for 25 years. Sarah Jane trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama before embarking on a career as a singer and actress. Success with the British band Communards in 1986 (most notably a performance on the UK's best-selling single of the year, Don't Leave Me This Way) led to solo albums (the first of which included the BBC-banned iconic rendition of Me and Mrs Jones), sell-out tours and appearances on TV, theatre and film. 2004 sees the release of a new album, an appearance in the film Frozen and another world tour.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Frank Clifford
- SpouseDavid Coulter(August 15, 1992 - present) (1 child)
- In September 2000 she set up her own record label, Fallen Angel Ltd.
- She trained as an actress, attending the Central School of Speech and Drama with comedy duo 'French and Saunders', actor Rupert Everett and film star Kristin Scott Thomas.
- She has had major success in Japan, Germany, Greece (two number one hits) and particularly in Italy, where she has been awarded the key to the city of Verona, honoured with a European Grammy and won the prestigious international Sanremo song festival. Concert highlights have included a Swing Ladies concert with Chaka Khan and Monserrat Caballe, a performance in front of 10,000 fans in Athens, the Red Wedge Tour, amphitheatres in Italy and the What Women Want concert with 'Sinéad O'Connor (I)' and Chrissie Hynde. Sarah Jane sold out a week's residency at Ronnie Scott's for six consecutive years. The past few years have seen Sarah Jane and her band tour the UK, Italy, Canada, USA, Istanbul and even a couple of appearances in Hell, Norway!.
- Recently tracked down her American relatives and discovered she is the cousin of iconic author Armistead Maupin of Tales of the City fame.
- Her singing voice spans the entire soprano and baritone ranges, soaring way above High C and plunging down to an eerie sounding bottom F.
- When I'm singing I get possessed by something. I'm floating above, yet still in control. Music is my expressive side. It seeps through my veins. (Diva, March 2001)
- All the bands up until my solo career were political... Politics has always found me... but I don't think I am a very political thinker but, because there weren't many women in the music industry that were part of that kind of 80s thing, I think I've been held up to be far more important politically than I ever was. I was terrified of letting people down. (Interview with Mike Thorne.)
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