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The Angel of Music

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Sarah Brightman is my favourite singer, "her voice could match the angels in its glory". I like many types of music, but her music really goes straight through my soul :) She has different styles of music, and she does it all well, and that is what makes her so special.
 
BIOGRAPHY:

1960 The year Sarah Brightman was Born!! August 14th in Berkhampstead, England. The oldest of 6 children. 

 

Around 1963/64 Sarah begins dancing lessons at the age of 3.

1973 - At 14, Sarah made her theatrical debut in I and Albert at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, playing one of Queen Victoria's daughters--"Vicki".

 

1976 / 77 Sarah joined the dance group Pan's People. Then at 18 she joined Arlene Philips' raunchy dance group Hot Gossip.  It was while singing and dancing with them that she made her first top 5 hit single with I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper with the B-side Do Do Do.

 

1979 Sarah Brightman and the Starship Troopers release The Adventures Of The Love Crusader, B Side Lost In Space (The Nurgon Zone).

Sarah (age 18) marries Andrew Graham-Stewart, producer of Tangerine Dreams.

 

1980 Sarah goes for an audition for a role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats. Wearing a blue wig, and a skimpy dress, sung like an angel, and got the part of Jemima a Kitten/Cat. 

1981 saw Sarah release the singles Not Having That!, with the B Side Echo 4, and My Boyfriend's Back and B Side Sleeping Beauty.  Cats Premiers at the New London Theatre (London, UK) on 11 May 1981, with Sarah playing Jemima.

1982 Sarah appears in Nightingale at the Lyric Hammersmith

 

1983 saw the release of the singles Him, B Side Memory (from Cats),   Rhythm Of The Rain and B side Action Man.
Sarah and Andrew Graham-Stewart divorced. 

On 22 March Sarah Brightman and Andrew Lloyd Webber married.

 

1984 -Succeeded Marti Webb in Song and Dance, Sarah starred as Emma.        

1984 Sarah is asked to play Christine in Ken Hill's version of Phantom of the Opera, but Sarah has to decline as she has other commitments.

 

1985 Sarah premiered Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem in New York and London, for which she received a Grammy nomination as Best New Classical Artist.   A single was released from Requiem - Pie Jesu.

Also the same year (1985) she performed the role of Valencienne in The Merry Widow for New Sadler's Wells Opera.

 

1986 Sarah created the role of Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, This role was written especially for Sarah by Andrew. Phantom opened at Her Majesty's Theatre, London in October 1986. Sarah also premiered the role on Broadway in 1988, where she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.  

1987 Sarah sang and released the song Doretta's Dream - Theme from Room With A View - (the film), the B side O Mio Babbino Caro,

 

1988 EMI Releases the Early One Morning  CD. Folksongs arranged by Benjamin Britten. This album has also been released as The Trees They grow So High

Also in 1988 an album was released for Children in Need.  Sarah sang In The Bleak Midwinter.

1989 The children's film Grandpa was released.  Sarah sang the song Make Believe at the end during the credits.
Sarah releases her first solo album - The Songs That Got Away based on songs from Broadway and West End Musicals that somehow got lost. 

 

1990 - Sarah releases her second solo album As I Came Of Age, and a single Something To Believe in and B Side Brown Eyes.  The CD single has the extra bonus track Love Changes Everything sung by Sarah. 

In 1990 Sarah divorces Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Sarah plays in  Aspects Of Love; she plays Rose in both New York and London.

 

1992 Really Useful Records releases Sarah Brightman Sings The Songs Of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

 

1993 Released third solo album Dive, and single Captain Nemo on single and CD.

1995 Recorded Surrender, The Unexpected Songs with Andrew Lloyd Webber.

1996 Released fourth solo album Fly, and the following singles from that album, Question of Honour,  How Can Heaven Love Me featuring Christopher Thompson and Heaven Is Here.


1997 Timeless released. And CD Single Time To Say Goodbye, duet with Andrea Bocelli.

1997 Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection CD released.

1998 Starship Troopers re-released CD single released.

And CD Starred in A Christmas in Vienna along with Placido Domingo, Helmut Lottie and Riccardo Cocciante. 

 

1998 Released Eden and Time To Say Goodbye The Millennium Edition.

 

2000 The release of La Luna.

 

2001 La Luna Video and DVD released - .At the La Luna concerts the album Fly has been re-released.

 

The Very Best Of Sarah Brightman 1990 - 2000 released. 

 

2001 Classics Cd and Encore CD released.

2003 Harem CD released

2003 Harem Tour CD Limited edition released

 
DISCOGRAPHY:

AWARDS (proof that she really is a talented global artiste):

USA Platinum x 4, Gold x 6
Canada Platinum x 7, Gold x 1
Denmark Platinum x 3, Gold
Norway Platinum x 3, Gold
Sweden Platinum x 3, Gold x 2
Finland Gold x 2
UK Gold x 2
Ireland Platinum x 4, Gold
Portugal Platinum, Gold x 2
Germany Platinum x 6, Gold x 2
Austria Platinum x 2
Swiss Platinum x 2
Holland Gold
Belgium Gold
France Gold
Estonia Gold x 2
Czech. Republic Gold
Israel Platinum x2, Gold x 2
Greece Gold x 2
Japan Gold x 4
Hong Kong Gold x 4
Singapore Platinum x 2, Gold x 2
Taiwan Platinum x 10
South Korea Platinum x 3, Gold x 2
South Africa Platinum, Gold x 3
Australia Platinum x 3, Gold x 1
New Zealand Platinum x 4, Gold x 2
Brazil Gold x 2
Mexico Gold
Chile Gold
Venezuela Gold

1986 Grammy Nomination, Best Classical Artist, USA
1996 Best Female Artist, Echo Award nomination, Germany
1996 Best Female Artist, RSH Gold, Germany
1997 Best Female Artist, Echo Award nomination
1998 Best Song Echo Award (“Time To Say Goodbye”)
1998 Golden Lion Award, Best Live Performance Award, Germany
1998 Goldene Europa, Best Female Artist, Germany
1998 Guinness Book Entry, Germany’s Best Selling Single of All Time (“Time To Say Goodbye”)
1998 Grammy Taiwan, Best Selling Record (Timeless)
1998 Unesco Hand-in-Hand Award
1999 Czechoslovakian Grammy, Singer of the Year
1999 Best Female Artist, Echo Award nomination, Germany
1999 The Point Trophy, Dublin-Ireland 1999, Highest Grossing Ticket Sales (One Night in Eden)
2000 IFPI Award Europe (“Timeless” — over a million records sold)
2003 Biggest Hits of All Time (“Time To Say Goodbye”), Media Control Award (equivalent of Billboard for Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

Golden Key to City of Chicago
Golden Key to Istanbul

 

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