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Miriam Arlene Stockley (born 15 April 1962) is a South African singer. She was born in Johannesburg, and her work is influenced by the African music of her home country. Her distinctive vocalise style gained international acclaim when Karl Jenkins launched the Adiemus project with Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary, with Stockley as the lead singer.
In 1992 she performed as a backing vocalist at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, which was broadcast live from the Old Wembley Stadium in London.
At the age of eleven, Stockley and her older sister Avryl formed the Stockley Sisters group and had a hit with a cover of Shocking Blue's "Venus" in 1976 on the South African Top 30, ten years before Bananarama's version. At age 18, she moved to the United Kingdom, settling in London to further pursue her musical career.[citation needed] There she contributed vocals to several albums and TV commercials.
She helped form Odyssey, a short-lived South African disco act consisting of her, Malie Kelly, and guitarist Mike Pilot.[citation needed]
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Stockley worked as a session singer for the UK songwriting and production trio Stock Aitken Waterman and appeared on tracks by Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Sonia. Alongside fellow session singer Mae McKenna, Stockley is credited with being partly responsible for the distinctive Stock, Aitken and Waterman sound of the 1980s.
Stockley provided backing vocals for the United Kingdom's Eurovision Song Contest entry on several occasions, most notably with Emma in 1990 and for Katrina and the Waves when they won in Dublin in 1997.
In 1991, Stockley became a part of the dance music group Praise whose single "Only You" reached number three in the UK singles chart. A year later, the band, with Stockley on vocals, released its second single, "Dream On". A third single was released entitled: "Easy Way Out". The band was due to start touring, when the entire department of the record label was let go. The band decided to call it a day. In 1995, she worked with Karl Jenkins as the multi-layered vocalist on his first Songs of Sanctuary release, which began as a Delta Air Lines television commercial and was later released on the album Pure Moods.
Stockley's song "Perfect Day," written by Colin Towns and also known as "Theme for the Lake District", was used as the theme song for the BBC children's programme The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, which ran from 1992 to 1998. She has also appeared as a singer in on episode of Our Friends In The North (1996) and on several BBC Schools programmes, most notably Look and Read and contributed to many film soundtracks, namely, Lord of the Rings, Autumn in New York, Great Expectations, Robroy, Skin, Beloved, and One Night Stand.
Miriam Stockley
Miriam Arlene Stockley (born 15 April 1962) is a South African singer. She was born in Johannesburg, and her work is influenced by the African music of her home country. Her distinctive vocalise style gained international acclaim when Karl Jenkins launched the Adiemus project with Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary, with Stockley as the lead singer.
In 1992 she performed as a backing vocalist at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, which was broadcast live from the Old Wembley Stadium in London.
At the age of eleven, Stockley and her older sister Avryl formed the Stockley Sisters group and had a hit with a cover of Shocking Blue's "Venus" in 1976 on the South African Top 30, ten years before Bananarama's version. At age 18, she moved to the United Kingdom, settling in London to further pursue her musical career.[citation needed] There she contributed vocals to several albums and TV commercials.
She helped form Odyssey, a short-lived South African disco act consisting of her, Malie Kelly, and guitarist Mike Pilot.[citation needed]
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Stockley worked as a session singer for the UK songwriting and production trio Stock Aitken Waterman and appeared on tracks by Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Sonia. Alongside fellow session singer Mae McKenna, Stockley is credited with being partly responsible for the distinctive Stock, Aitken and Waterman sound of the 1980s.
Stockley provided backing vocals for the United Kingdom's Eurovision Song Contest entry on several occasions, most notably with Emma in 1990 and for Katrina and the Waves when they won in Dublin in 1997.
In 1991, Stockley became a part of the dance music group Praise whose single "Only You" reached number three in the UK singles chart. A year later, the band, with Stockley on vocals, released its second single, "Dream On". A third single was released entitled: "Easy Way Out". The band was due to start touring, when the entire department of the record label was let go. The band decided to call it a day. In 1995, she worked with Karl Jenkins as the multi-layered vocalist on his first Songs of Sanctuary release, which began as a Delta Air Lines television commercial and was later released on the album Pure Moods.
Stockley's song "Perfect Day," written by Colin Towns and also known as "Theme for the Lake District", was used as the theme song for the BBC children's programme The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, which ran from 1992 to 1998. She has also appeared as a singer in on episode of Our Friends In The North (1996) and on several BBC Schools programmes, most notably Look and Read and contributed to many film soundtracks, namely, Lord of the Rings, Autumn in New York, Great Expectations, Robroy, Skin, Beloved, and One Night Stand.
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