Pauline Black

Pauline Black , of her true name Pauline Vickers , is a singer and actress born the October 23rd 1953 with Coventry, Warwickshire.

Biography (elements)

Born from a father native of Niger and an English mother, Pauline Black is adopted very young person by a white couple.

After studies of Biochemistry, she works as radiologist in a hospital of Coventry, city to which she remains very attached. She starts to occur in clubs of the city, adopting for the occasion the pseudonym of Pauline Black, to prevent that its true name is recognized of its employers.

With the beginning of the year 1980, Pauline Black joined the group of Ska The Selecter. Equipped with a costume narrow and capped “pork black and white hat” (hat at the narrow edges, emblematic of the groups of the kind), it becomes, thanks to its voice, an essential component of the group. It is also one of the rare feminine voices of the ska.

The Selecter separates in 1981, after the commercial failure of their second album and eighteen months of existence only. Pauline then carries out a short career solo (which it will describe as null thereafter), then directs itself towards the theater, television and the radio.

Thus it presents on Chanel 4 an emission called Black one Black , as well as a play for children baptized Hold Tight on ITV.

It gains in 1991 Time Out award of the best actress for her portrait of Billie Holiday in a part entitled All gold Nothing At All . The same year, Pauline is at the origin of the reformation The Selecter.

In 1994, it turns Funny Man , a film of horror with Christopher Lee.

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