Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey (Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer, which included the title song of three James Bond movies Goldfinger recorded (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She also had big hits with "Big Spender" and "This is My Life".



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Bassey was born in Cardiff, as the youngest in a family of seven children. Her father was an Efik from Nigeria and her mother came from Yorkshire. They separated when Bassey was three years old. At the age of fifteen, Bassey left school and found a job in a factory. in the evenings and on the weekends she appeared on in the local pubs and clubs. In 1953 she got a role in the musical Memories of Jolson on the life of Al Jolson. Basseys first marriage was to Kenneth Hume (1961-1965) and ended in divorce. Her second husband was Sergio Novak. Bassey and Novak were married from 1968 to 1977. Novak was also her manager during their marriage. Bassey has two daughters and one adopted son. Her eldest daughter (Sharon) was born when Bassey was seventeen. Basseys youngest daughter (Samantha) was found dead in 1985, after probably a leap from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. Bassey has always insisted that her daughter's death was not suicide.
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 external links

In the 1960s and 1970s, she scored big hits in (mainly) the United Kingdom and the United States.

After itself in the eighties to focus on charity work, she made in the late 1990s, in collaboration with the dance duo Propellerheads a very successful comeback with the songHistory Repeating whereby a new generation became acquainted with her music.

To its admirers included the British Royal family and John f. Kennedy. ==Discography[ Edit] == ===Albums[ Edit] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===