Annie Lennox

2023 - 3 - 31

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Annie Lennox on her success in music and dedication to activism (PBS NewsHour)

Her nearly five-decade career has taken Annie Lennox far from her working-class roots in Aberdeen, Scotland. Yet through intense years of recording and ...

Eastern tonight and on the PBS.org Web site and the PBS app. She was named best British female artist a record six times, with a singular sound and a style all her own, minimalist, powerful, and explicitly androgynous. Yes, whether being an artist and a mother was a damaging thing. Last year, Lennox got the recognition her fans and the music industry said she deserved. Love came to my door with a sleeping roll and a madman's soul. Or is it just the whole story? That encounter with her music changed my life. That was life-changing. It sort of made everything come together. It was something else. Yet, through intense years recording and touring, success at every industry level and, more recently, dedicating herself to humanitarian causes, she insists she has always remained the same Annie, the girl who wants heard a Joni Mitchell album that changed her life. Her nearly five-decade career has taken Annie Lennox far from her working-class roots in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Annie Lennox says discovering Joni Mitchell was “life-changing” (Far Out Magazine)

Lennox was speaking to PBS for their culture series, Canvas, and in the discussion, she looked back upon pivotal moments in her career such as listening to ...

And I knew from the very first day that I stepped in the building that it wasn’t right for me. I was a flute player, and I played piano. There was a point in my life when I was very young, I came down to London to study classical music.

Annie Lennox says discovering Joni Mitchell was “life-changing” (NNN)

Annie Lennox says discovering Joni Mitchell was “life-changing” Lennox's pivotal moment Scottish singer Annie Lennox has opened up about her love of Joni ...

Joni Mitchell was recently honoured with the Gershwin Prize in Washington, D.C. It sort of made everything come together…That encounter with her music changed my life,” Lennox said, describing how Mitchell’s music was “life-changing”. “Joni had a huge impact on me,” she said.