Concerts de Julia Fordham Tournée 2024-2025

Biographie

AUGUST 10TH 2004 - Not only is that the day my 8th record comes out, it will be precisely 42 years ago (that's 37 in showbiz years) that I came out of my Mum in the front room of our little home in the South Coast of England. Dad was there, trying to get the gas and air going, running about yelling things like "Push" and "Breathe" and "Ooh it's a girl" and "Where are the scissors as I think we are meant to cut the umbilical cord". Thankfully, the midwife arrived shortly thereafter to check in on how things were coming along. She couldn't believe I had arrived 2 days early. Neither could Mum and Dad. That was just the beginning of the merry dance that I would lead them. First it was my obsession with the recorder. From dawn until dusk I would tuttle away, even putting two in my mouth at the same time playing freaky harmonies. Next was the blaring trumpet, then the booming B flat tuba bass, a brief flirtation with a percussion kit followed and heaven only knows how they survived triangle and tambourine practise. By 14 I was hanging out at the local folk and jazz clubs with other long haired undesirables, playing at open mic' night, singing my own songs and then racing for the last bus home dragging my guitar behind me. Soon I had my brother in on the act and I had us both out until the wee small hours of the morning singing old 40's songs with two of our chums. At 16 I dropped out of school to pursue a life in music. 20 local radio commercials, 4 bands, 8 backing singing session stints, 42 demos, 3 boyfriends and 10 years later, I signed to Circa/Virgin Records in London, England. The first record had a number one smash in Japan on it, Happy Ever After, and finally Mum and Dad realised that my job was in fact proper and all might be well after all. So here I am 16 years later. Mum and Dad are still live on Hayling Island (a blob so small that it is not even on most American maps of England) and I live here in Sunny California where I have just finished my third album with Larry Klein. And not just because he is geographically desirable, or once married to my number one favorite icon (both of those help of course), he is a musical giant who seems to love my voice and songs and knows how to make them all sit together on a record. All that said, here's my second album on the thankfully independent Vanguard Records ... and That's Life. - Julia Fordham Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.