Lulu

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Lulu Kennedy-Cairns CBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer, actress, and television personality. With a career spanning six decades, her debut single a cover version of The Isley Brothers song “Shout“, reached the top ten of the UK Singles Charts in 1964. In 1967, she rose to international prominence after appearing in the box office film To Sir, with Love, singing the theme song which topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks.

Throughout the 1960s, she achieved another five top ten hits in the United Kingdom, including with Boom Bang-a-Bang, which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969. With a powerful singing voice, in 1974, she sang the title song for the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. In the mid 1990s, Lulu had her first number one single in the UK after the release of Relight My Fire, with English boy band Take That.

In 2002, she achieved her final top ten entry in the UK charts after her collaboration with Irish singer Ronan Keating titled We’ve Got Tonite, peaked at number four. Throught out her career she has released fifteen studio albums, with Together (2002) being her most commercial one to date after peaking at number four on the UK Albums Charts. Outside of her career, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music, entertainment and charity.

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