![]() She would go do that, come back, (sell some more cakes), go back. She decided to raise some money to educate some girls. She went back to Cambridge and opened a little cake store. She noticed that girls in particular had no proper education. J.A.: It’s absolutely brilliant! The woman who (founded) it, Ann Cotton, she went to Africa, to a little village. (Armatrading is a member of Camfed’s advisory board.) I came across this organization, while trolling your Twitter feed. I’m very lucky I’ve got a very strong voice. I’ve never, ever had any vocal cord problems before. That kind of knocked me, and I had to reschedule. The allergy was frightening when it happened. That happened at the same time as I got a virus. Out of the blue at 64, I developed a nut allergy. J.A.: What happened to me, maybe eight or six months ago, is I developed a nut allergy. Then you had a bit of an illness – a cold and then laryngitis. S.Z.: Touring must take a toll on everyone. S.Z.: This tour is also the first time in four decades you’ve played a solo tour. It’s not that I won’t ever be touring again it’s that I won’t be touring in this expensive way that I have been for the last 42 years. That tells you how long the tour is.Īfter I’m 65, I don’t want to be on the road so long. December the 9th, I will be 65 – that’s like two birthdays. This tour started in 2014, and it will end at the end of November 2015. Sue Zalokar: This is your final major world tour. I caught up to her on a phone connection that spanned the globe: Hamburg, Germany, to Portland. Clearly, aging is as much of an adventure as making music for this British pop icon. Recently, she took helicopter flying lessons. At age 58, she ran the New York City Marathon. In 2001, she received an honors degree in history from Open University after five years of studying on a tour bus and in hotel rooms. Many of her lyrics do not specify the gender of their subjects, and she frequently uses the word “you” rather than a gender pronoun.Īrmatrading, as a private person, doesn’t tout her actions or accomplishments. Armatrading has never spoken publicly about being gay. If the songs were about me, I’d be so embarrassed I don’t think I’d be able to walk out the front door.”Īrmatrading prefers not to discuss her private life, but it was reported that she married her girlfriend, artist Maggie Butler, in a civil union ceremony on Scotland’s Shetland Islands in 2011. ![]() ![]() She says her songs are “about what I see other people going through. Today, at almost 65 and after 40 years of touring, Armatrading still writes and performs songs she has created from her observations of people around her. In the 1970s, Armatrading became the first black British female singer/songwriter to achieve international success. Lucky for us, she lost that job for playing her guitar on tea breaks, and she continued playing and writing songs.Īrmatrading is known for her guitar mastery and her remarkable vocal abilities. At 15, she left school to take a manufacturing job to help support her family. At 14, she began writing her own songs after her mother purchased a piano. She was born in the Caribbean islands, the third of six children of working-class parents, and they moved to London when she was 7. She is in the final leg of her last major world tour, touring solo for the first time in her entire career. In a recording career spanning four decades, Joan Armatrading has released 18 studio albums, has been a three-time Grammy Award nominee and has toured the world extensively.
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