Cleo by Cleo Laine
From her modest beginning in English dance halls, Cleo Laine has gone on to become one of the most celebrated singers of our time, with a command of a dazzling array of vocal styles - she is the only singer to receive Grammy nominations in the female popular, classical and jazz categories. Lively memories of her Jamaican father and English mother, the hand-to-mouth existence cheered by her obsession with the pianola and her certainty that she would one day become a singer, lead to the Soho audition at which she met John Dankworth. Their marriage in 1958 consolidated a personal and professional collaboration which took them on to make musical history. Interspersed with the stories of her private life are frank accounts of her work and friendships with countless international stars such as Ray Charles, Frankie Howerd, Dudley Moore, Stephen Sondheim and Elisabeth Welch.Bernadette O'Rourke is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Irish and Galician in the European Context (Palgrave 2011) and co-author (with Gabrielle Hogan-Brun) of the Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities (2019). She was Chair of COST Action on New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe (2013-17). She is a Fellow of the Smithsonian Institute for Folklife on the Sustaining Minoritized Languages in Europe (SMiLE) project (2018-present).
John Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Irish in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is author of several publications in Irish and English about Irish language policy, Irish language media, Irish and socioeconomic development and new speakers of Irish. John was a leading member of the COST Action on New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe (2013-17) and jointly led two Working Groups (on new speakers and indigenous minority languages and on new speakers and subjectivities).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780671713164 |
| ISBN 10 | 0671713167 |
| Title | Cleo |
| Author | Cleo Laine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 1994-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 302 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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