Joan Armatrading

Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading (born 9 December 1950) is an English singer‑songwriter and guitarist. Her first major commercial success came with her third and fourth albums, Joan Armatrading (1976) and Show Some Emotion (1977), and she continues to perform live and record studio albums. A three‑time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, the third of six children, was born on 9 December 1950 in the town of Basseterre in what was then the British colony of Saint Christopher and Nevis. Her father was a carpenter and her mother a housewife. When she was three years old, her parents moved with their two eldest sons to Birmingham, England, sending Armatrading to live with her grandmother on the West Indian island of Antigua. In early 1958, at the age of seven, she joined her parents in Brookfields, then a district of Birmingham. Her father had played in a band in his youth and later forbade his children from touching his guitar. At about the age of 14, Armatrading began writing songs by setting her own limericks to music on a piano her mother had purchased as “a piece of furniture”. She then began teaching herself guitar after her mother bought her one worth £3 (equivalent to £51 in 2025) from a pawn shop in exchange for two prams.
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Show-Some-Emotion

Reach Out

Willow

Love And Affection

i really must be going

The Weakness In Me

It could have been better

Me myself i

My Family

Head of the Table

Down To Zero

I’m Lucky

It could have been better

The amazing Joan Armatrading 1979 full album

To the Limit 1978 full album

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