Pauline Black

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Country

GB

Active from

1968-09

Active to

2025-07-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

7,665

Total plays

22,909

Pauline Black (born 23 October 1953) is a British singer and actress, most notable as the lead singer of Ska / 2 Tone outfit The Selecter founded in 1979 in Coventry, UK. After the band split in 1982, Black developed an acting career in television and theatre, appearing in dramas such as The Vice, The Bill, Hearts and Minds and 2000 Acres of Sky. She won the 1991 Time Out award for Best Actress, for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in the play All or Nothing At All. She also starred next to Chris

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,845x

2. The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities

   · 1973 · cited 19,790x

3. AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEGTJAREFF METHOD FOR DETERMINING SOIL ORGANIC MATTER, AND A PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF THE CHROMIC ACID TITRATION METHOD

   · 1934 · cited 17,137x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,992x

5. Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure

   · 2003 · cited 10,088x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Pauline

Family name

Black

Gender

female

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

London Borough of Havering

Occupation

television presenter

Educated at

Coventry University

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Genre

ska

Instrument

voice

Record label

2 Tone Records

Image

The Selecter, Ostróda Reggae Festival 2025, KsP 1261.jpg

Height

168

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