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  • Sheena Easton
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  • American rock singers
  • Dance musicians
  • American country singer-songwriters
  • Grammy Award winners
  • American female singers
  • 1959 births
  • American female country singers
  • American film actresses
  • American people of Scottish descent
  • American pop singers
  • American voice actresses
  • People from Bellshill
  • Scottish female singers
  • Scottish pop singers
  • Scottish rock singers
  • Scottish emigrants to the United States
  • Scottish film actresses
  • Scottish musical theatre actresses
  • Scottish voice actresses
  • Spanish-language singers
  • Alumni of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
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  • Born on April 27, 1959 in Bellshill, Scotland
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  • Sheena Shirley Easton (née Orr; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish born recording artist and stage and TV/film actress with dual UK/USA nationality. Easton first came into the public eye as the focus of an episode in the first British reality television programme The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton's 1980 debut singles, %22Modern Girl%22 and %229 to 5%22,%22 entered into the UK top ten, making her the first UK female artist to appear twice in the same top ten since Ruby Murray. In 1981, %229 to 5%22, topped the US Hot 100, making her the third UK female solo artist to achieve this, following Petula Clark and Lulu and is one of the most successful British female performers to date. A six-time Grammy nominee in the US, Easton is a two-time Grammy Award winner, winning Best New Artist in 1981 and Best Mexican-American Performance in 1985, for her duet with Luis Miguel on the song %22Me Gustas Tal Como Eres%22. She has received 5 U.S. Gold albums and 1 U.S. Platinum album. She has recorded 16 studio albums, released 45 singles total worldwide, and had 14 U.S. Top 40 singles, 7 U.S. top tens and one U.S. No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1981 and 1991. She also had 25 top 40 hits in international territories around the world. In Canada, Easton scored 3 gold and 2 platinum albums. She has sold over 25 million albums and singles worldwide.Easton became the first and only artist in history to have a top 5 hit on five different Billboard charts consecutively, with Morning Train (9 to 5) (Pop & Adult Contemporary), %22We've Got Tonight%22 with Kenny Rogers (Country), %22Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)%22 (Dance), and %22Sugar Walls%22 (R&B).Easton's other hits include the James Bond theme %22For Your Eyes Only%22, %22Strut%22, %22U Got the Look%22 and %22The Arms of Orion%22 with Prince, %22The Lover in Me%22 and %22What Comes Naturally%22. She has worked with prominent vocalists and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil, Kenny Rogers, David Foster, Luis Miguel, L.A. Reid & Babyface, Patrice Rushen and Nile Rodgers.
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