Donna Lewis
b. Cardiff, Wales. Despite her initial inability to secure a UK recording contract, Lewis' career was galvanized meteorically when her debut single, "I Love You Always Forever", climbed to number 2 on the Billboard charts in 1996. The singer-songwriter was commendably relaxed about this turn of events, that reaction a testament to the fact that she had been involved in making music from the age of 14. At that time, influenced by jazz, Motown Records and Rickie Lee Jones, she began writing her first songs. She then attended the Welsh College of Music and Drama, before spending four years playing in European piano bars as a cabaret singer. When she returned to the UK she took a residency at the Belfry Hotel in Birmingham, at which time she began sending out her first demo tapes to record companies. By a strange set of coincidences, one such tape was passed to Jennifer Stark of Atlantic Records by Jerry Marreta, the drummer with Peter Gabriel. Atlantic paired her with Kevin Killen, who had previously worked with U2, Kate Bush and Elvis Costello. She was marketed in similar terms to Enya, whose "ethereal" singing technique is close to her own, but the success of "I Love You Always Forever' (which also reached UK number 5) took everybody by surprise, not least UK record label executives who had passed on her demo tapes. The self-produced Blue Planet contained an equal quota of radio-friendly pop songs, maintaining Lewis" high standards.
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Albums
- (2007) Now In A Minute
- (1998) Blue Planet
- (1998) Blue Planet
- (1996) Now In A Minute
Top Tracks
- I Love You Always Forever
- I Could Be The One
- Without Love
- Love Him
- Fools Paradise
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