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Shirley Bassey
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer with a career spanning more than 60 years. Originally finding fame in the mid-1950s, Bassey has been called "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century."〔〔 "Welsh diva thrives on new material written by artists half her age"〕 In the US, in particular, she is best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films ''Goldfinger'' (1964), ''Diamonds Are Forever'' (1971), and ''Moonraker'' (1979).
In 2000, Bassey was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts. In 1977 she received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years.〔Sylvia Lovina Chidi (2014). "The Greatest Black Achievers in History". p. 562. Lulu.〕
==Early life==
Shirley Veronica Bassey was the sixth and last child of Henry Bassey and Eliza Jane Start and was born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, of paternal Nigerian and maternal Welsh.〔〔 Two of her mother's four children from previous relationships lived in the Bassey household. Bassey's mother listed her first husband, Alfred Metcalfe, as her own father in the registry of her marriage to Henry Bassey, giving rise to speculation that this marriage was bigamous in the absence of a prior divorce.〔Williams, John, ''Miss Shirley Bassey'', 18〕 Eliza and Henry's second child died in infancy, so Shirley was born into a household of three sisters, two half-sisters, and one brother.
Teachers and students alike at Moorland Road School noticed Bassey's strong voice, but gave the pre-teen little encouragement: " '...everyone told me to shut up. Even in the school choir the teacher kept telling me to back off till I was singing in the corridor!' A classmate recalled her singing the refrain 'Can't help lovin' that man of mine' from ''Show Boat'' with such feeling that she made their teacher uncomfortable."〔Williams, J. ''Miss Shirley Bassey'', 46〕 After leaving Splott Secondary Modern School at the age of 14, Bassey first found employment at a factory while singing in public houses and clubs in the evenings and weekends.〔Williams, J., ''Miss Shirley Bassey'', 53, 60〕
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