Sheena Easton
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Since 1959, no other UK female artist has two top 10 singles on the UK singles charts at the same time. Sheena Easton, is a Scottish singer who dominated the charts in the 80’s.
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Since 1959, no other UK female artist has two top 10 singles on the UK singles charts at the same time. Sheena Easton, is a Scottish singer who dominated the charts in the 80’s.
Born to a steel mill laborer on April 27, 1959 and the youngest of six children, this Scottish girl is two-time Grammy Award winner and theater & TV actress.
Her father died when she was barely six years old so her mother had to work as a laborer to support the family. Despite this, her mother still attended to all their needs.
Her determination to take on singing as a career was fuelled by the stunning rendition by Barbra Streisand of a song for the opening credits of the movie The Way We Were. This experience deeply moved her and gave her the willpower to become a singer. In 1975, her intelligence gave her the chance to get a scholarship to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. She studied speech and drama teaching until 1979. She knew that it would bring out the best in her craft as singer. During her scholarship, she sang with a band called Something Else by night at local clubs.
Modern Girl was her first single and was released in the UK. However, this was not favorably received by the public and ended up to No. 56. Her second single, 9 To 5 made it a phenomenal record to no. 3 of the UK singles chart in 1980, also pulling up with it Modern Girl which then also made it to the top 10 making two of her songs in the top 10 at the same time.
These events led to the inevitable popularity of Sheena.
Sheena entered the US market with her renamed 9 To 5 first US- and Canada-released single, Morning Train (Nine To five) and her only no. 1 hit in the US. The James Bond movie theme song For Your Eyes Only earned her a number of nominations including Best Female Vocal Performance Grammy awards in 1981 and Best Original Song at the Academy Awards in 1982.
Another hit single Telefone in 1983 was nominated for Best Female Pop/Rock Vocal Performance. In the same year, her duet with Kenny Rogers in the song We’ve Got Tonight made it to no. 1 on the country chart and Almost Over You also no. 1 in the AC chart hit.
She did another collaborative work with Prince in the single U Got the Look and The Arms of Orion for the movie Batman. She also did some Grammy award-winning Spanish songs like Me Gustas Tal Como Eres (I Love You Just The Way You Are), La Noche Y Tu (We Got Tonight) and Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (Everything Reminds Me of You).
Sheena’s acting career was given a break in 1987 when she appeared on the TV program Miami Vice as Caitlin Davies, but her busy schedule forced her to give up the role later, although she received good reviews for the episodes that featured her.
The succeeding years after 1987 was a rollercoaster ride for her career as singer. Her four marriages ended up to a divorce, the first in 1979 with Sandi Easton (she chose to retain his surname), the second in 1984 with talent agent Rob Light, third in 1997 with producer Tim Delam and the last in 2002 with plastic surgeon John Minoli. Her last marriage lasted for barely a year.
Sheena has two adoptive children: a boy named Jake in 1994, and a girl named Skylar in 1996. She happily claims that her children are her top priority right now, so her concerts are usually scheduled on weekends.
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| Year | Title | U.S. Hot 100 | U.S. Dance | U.S. AC | UK singles | Canada singles | Japan singles | Album |
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| 1980 | Modern Girl | 18 | - | 13 | 8 | 19 | 18 | Sheena Easton (US) Take My Time (UK) |
| 1980 | Morning Train (9 to 5) | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 17 | Sheena Easton (US) / [[Take My
Time]] (UK) |
| 1980 | One Man Woman | - | - | - | 14 | - | - | Sheena Easton / Take My Time
(UK) |
| 1981 | Take My Time | - | - | - | 44 | - | - | Sheena Easton (US)/ Take My Time
(UK) |
| 1981 | For Your Eyes Only | 4 | - | 6 | 8 | 7 | 22 | For Your Eyes Only soundtrack |
| 1981 | When He Shines | 30 | - | 13 | 12 | - | - | You Could Have Been With Me |
| 1981 | Just Another Broken Heart | - | - | - | 33 | - | - | You Could Have Been With Me |
| 1981 | You Could Have Been With Me | 15 | - | 6 | 54 | 13 | 46 | You Could Have Been With Me |
| 1982 | Machinery | 57 | - | - | 38 | - | 52 | Madness, Money and Music |
| 1982 | Are You Man Enough | - | - | - | - | - | - | Madness, Money and Music |
| 1982 | I Wouldn't Beg for Water | 64 | - | 19 | - | - | - | Madness, Money and Music |
| 1983 | We've Got Tonight (with [[Kenny
Rogers]]) | 6 | - | 2 | 28 | 2 | - | We've Got Tonight ([[Kenny
Rogers]] album) |
| 1983 | Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair) | 9 | 9 | 15 | 84 | 8 | 46 | Best Kept Secret |
| 1983 | Almost Over You | 25 | - | 4 | 89 | - | - | Best Kept Secret |
| 1984 | Devil in a Fast Car | 79 | - | - | - | - | 95 | Best Kept Secret |
| 1984 | Strut | 82 | 82 | 82 | 82 | 82 | 82 | Best Kept Secret |
| 1985 | Sugar Walls | 9 | 1 | - | 95 | 20 | - | A Private Heaven |
| 1985 | Swear | 80 | - | - | - | - | - | A Private Heaven |
| 1985 | Do It for Love | 29 | 21 | 39 | - | - | - | Do You |
| 1986 | Jimmy Mack | 65 | 30 | - | - | - | - | Do You |
| 1986 | So Far So Good | 43 | 32 | 35 | - | - | - | About Last Night... soundtrack |
| 1987 | Eternity | - | - | - | - | - | - | No Sound But A Heart |
| 1987 | U Got The Look (Duet w/ Prince) | 2 | - | - | 11 | - | - | Sign o The Times(Prince
album) |
| 1988 | The Lover in Me | 2 | 2 | 43 | 15 | 26 | - | The Lover in Me |
| 1989 | Days Like This | - | - | - | 43 | - | - | The Lover in Me |
| 1989 | 101 | - | 2 | - | 54 | - | - | The Lover in Me |
| 1989 | No Deposit, No Return | - | - | - | - | - | - | The Lover In Me |
| 1989 | The Arms of Orion (with Prince) | 36 | - | 21 | 27 | - | - | Batman soundtrack |
| 1991 | What Comes Naturally | 19 | 39 | - | 83 | 21 | - | What Comes Naturally |
| 1991 | You Can Swing It | - | - | - | - | - | - | What Comes Naturally |
| 1991 | To Anyone | - | - | - | - | - | - | What Comes Naturally |
| 1995 | My Cherie | - | - | - | - | - | - | My Cherie |
| 2000 | Giving Up Giving In | - | - | - | 54 | - | - | Fabulous |
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- Sheena has been married and divorced four times.
Sandi Easton (1978 - 1979)
Robert Light (1984 - 1985)
Timothy Delarm (1997 - 1998)
John Minoli (2002 - 2004)
- Sheena's song Morning Train (Nine to Five) was her only #1 hit on the Billboard Pop Charts.
- Sheena recorded an album of disco covers, Fabulous in 2000 for Universal Records for the European market. It went top 20 in Spain and Estonia.
- Sheena's song 9 to 5 was already a big hit in the UK, but when the song was released in America the title had to be changed to Morning Train to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton's recent hit of the same name.
- Sheena won two Grammy Awards, including one for Best New Artist in 1981.
- Sheena is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
- Sheena adopted two children, Jake in 1995 and Skylar in 1996.
- Sheena Easton is a two time Grammy Award winner. Once for Best Newcomer in 1981, and Best MexicanAmerican Performance shared with Luis Miguel for the song ' Me Gustas Tal Como Eres' in 1983.
- Sheena also recieved a Platinum Award in 1984 for 1,000,000 copies sold of her A Private Heaven album.
- Her albums 'Sheena Easton' (1980), 'You Could Have Been With Me' (1981), Do You (1985), and 'The Lover In Me (1988) all went Gold.
- Since 1980 Sheena has had 8 Billboard Hot 100 - Top 10 Hits, and is to this day the only artist ever to have had Top 5 hits on five different Billboard charts: Pop, Dance, R&B, Country, and Adult Contemporary.
- As well as lending her acting talents to the TV series Miami Vice in 1988, Sheena also contributed a song to the soundtrack - 'Follow My Rainbow', which was released as a single in Germany featuring footage from the series in the music video.
- Since moving out of the limelight Sheena has two adopted children and has been a regular attraction in Las Vegas since the early 90's, where she now resides.
- In the entire James Bond series, Sheena is the only artist seen performing a song in the title sequence, with For Your Eyes Only.
- Sheena was given a special award from Billboard Magazine as being the first artist to crack the Top 5 on five key singles charts; Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, R&B, Dance and Country.
- Robbie Williams mentions her in his song Me and My Monkey.
- Inspired to pursue a singing career after seeing Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were (1973), she later attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama while moonlighting with the group Something Else.
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