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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 musical 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 first two singles, "Modern Girl" and "9 to 5", both entered the UK Top Ten, and she was the first UK female artist to appear twice in the same Top Ten since Ruby Murray. In 1981, "9 to 5" topped the US Hot 100, making her the third UK female solo artist to achieve this, following Petula Clark and Lulu, and she became one of the most successful British female performers of the 1980s.
A six-time Grammy nominee in the U.S., 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 "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres". 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 20 million albums and singles worldwide.
Take My Time is the debut album by UK pop singer Sheena Easton. Released in January 1981, the album reached #17 in the UK and earned her a Gold Disc. Two months later, a ten track version of the album was released in the USA and Canada as Sheena Easton. The album went gold in the USA and platinum in Canada.
After becoming suddenly famous due to her appearance on a television documentary in 1980 and with the hits “9 To 5” (which went gold) and “Modern Girl”, Easton began recording her debut album with producer Christopher Neil. The style of the album was a combination of pure pop (“Take My Time” and “Voice on the Radio”) and sentimental ballads (“When He Shines” and “No-One Ever Knows”). "Prisoner" is a cover of a Sue Saad and the Next song released earlier in 1980.
The album charted in February 1981, just as Easton was finding fame in the US when “9 to 5” (retitled “Morning Train (Nine to Five)” to avoid confusion with a record by Dolly Parton called "9 To 5") took her to No. 1 in the charts there.
A US No. 25 hit from 1983, Almost Over You was the second single to be taken from Sheena Easton's Best Kept Secret album. Enjoy! Brought to you by RT Industries, curators of Sheena's EMI years catalogue. #SheenaEaston #80s
Sheena Easton - 9 to 5 (Morning Train) (Official Music Video)
Sheena Easton - Strut (Official Music Video)
Great song from 1983.
Music video by Sheena Easton performing The Lover In Me. (C) 1988 Geffen Records
Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls (Official Music Video)
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 musical 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 first two singles, "Modern Girl" and "9 to 5", both entered the UK Top Ten, and she was the first UK female artist to appear twice in the same Top Ten since Ruby Murray. In 1981, "9 to 5" topped the US Hot 100, making her the third UK female solo artist to achieve this, following Petula Clark and Lulu, and she became one of the most successful British female performers of the 1980s.
A six-time Grammy nominee in the U.S., 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 "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres". 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 20 million albums and singles worldwide.
I'm not just looking for an answer to my prayers or my dreams
It's just I feel my love needs more consistancy
I'm about out of luck, half out of time I'm just about to lose my mind
I'm starting to lose touch with my reality I never wished on stars
I never thought that dreams came true.
Yet in the midst of all my disbelief
Darlin' now I feel like I am long overdue
I search high and low to find my pot of gold
And that's why, yeah
Some day I'm gonna follow my rainbow.
Some day I'm gonna reach for the sky
By then if you're not ready or able
I'll pack my pride for one last time
Cross my heart and pray our love won't die.
I'm not looking for an angel to make good on all my dreams
It's just I feel our love's not all that it should be
I'm not looking for a miracle. A mircale won't do
The only miracle I need is to be you
I don't believe in wishing wells
Wishes don't come true.
Yet in the midst of all my disbelief
Darlin' now I feel like I am long overdue
I'm searching high and low to find my pot of gold
And that's why, yeah
Some day I'm gonna follow my rainbow.
Some day I'm gonna reach for the sky
By then if you're not ready or able
I'll pack my pride for one last time
Cross my heart and pray our love won't die.
I've searched high and low to find my pot of gold
And that's why, yeah
Some day I'm gonna follow my rainbow.
Some day I'm gonna reach for the sky
By then if you're not ready or able
I'll pack my pride for one last time
Cross my heart and pray our love won't die.
Some day I'm gonna follow my rainbow.
Some day I'm gonna reach for the sky
By then if you're not ready or able
I'll pack my pride for one last time