Barbara Dickson
Singer, Musical Artist
1947 –
Who is Barbara Dickson?
Barbara Ruth Dickson, OBE is a Scottish singer whose hits include "I Know Him So Well" and "January February". Dickson has placed fifteen albums in the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date, and had a number of hit singles, including four which reached the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. The Scotsman newspaper has described her as Scotland's best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976.
She is also a two-time Olivier Award-winning actress, with roles including Viv Nicholson in the musical Spend Spend Spend, and she was the original Mrs. Johnstone in Willy Russell's long-running musical Blood Brothers. On TV she starred as Anita Braithwaite in Band of Gold.
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- Born
- Sep 27, 1947
Dunfermline - Also known as
- Barbara Ruth Dickson
- Barbara Ruth Dickson, OBE
- Spouses
- Oliver Cookson
(1984 - )
- Oliver Cookson
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Woodmill High School
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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