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Sandie Shaw

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Also known as "the barefoot singer"

English pop singer (born 1947)

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Sandie Shaw, born Sandra Ann Goodrich on 26 February 1947 in Dagenham, is a British pop singer and recording artist. She is also identified as a mondina and singer. Her career began in 1964 and concluded in 2013. Shaw was educated at the University of London and holds United Kingdom citizenship. She is a Buddhist and speaks English.

Shaw performed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967. Her musical work has been released on Pye Records, Reprise Records, Liberty Records, and RCA Victor. She received the award of Member of the Order of the British Empire. Her nickname is "The barefoot singer." She has one published work titled *The world at my feet*.

Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • The world at my feet

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Dagenham, Essex, England, UK

Sandie Shaw was born as Sandra Ann Goodrich and was the first British artist to win the Eurovision Song Contest with "Puppet On a String" (Vienna April 8, 1967). She is currently married to Tony Bedford but she was previously married to Nik Powell and Jeff Banks.

Known for

  • 70 Jahre ESC - More than Music — Self (archive footage)2026
  • The A-Z of Eurovision — Self - Contestant (archive footage)2020
  • My Generation — Self (voice)2017
  • Back in Time for the Weekend — Fashion Presenter2016
  • The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One — Self - Singer2015
  • ...Sings the Beatles — Self (archive footage)2009
  • Kathy Kirby: My Story By The Golden Girl of Pop — Self2009
  • The One Show — Self2006
  • Girls and Boys - Sex and British Pop — Self2005
  • Top of the Pops: 40th Anniversary 1964 - 2004 — Self (archive footage)2004

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1947-02-26
britishclassic pop and rockenglisheurovisionpopuk

Member of

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
206,567
Total plays
1,574,667

Tags

60sfemale vocalistspopbritisholdies

Sandie Shaw (real name Sandra Ann Goodrich) (born February 26, 1947) was the most successful British girl singer of the 1960s. With her hair, slender frame, model cheekbones and outfits, she has been described as the ultimate working-class 'it' girl. Raised in Dagenham, Essex, UK, the Ford plant IBM operator dreamed of becoming a singer. She began her recording career in 1964 at just 17-years-old having been discovered by popular singer Adam Faith. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sandie+Shaw

via Last.fm · Sandie Shaw

Quotes

  • "No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost."
  • "I'd hate to be a man. I feel sorry for them, being so career driven. In the music industry there's so many of them, whereas as a woman you can make waves."
  • "I cry when I say things I really believe in. I cry at board meetings and the men at the table get quite taken aback, I have to ask them to take no notice."

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Born
Sandra Ann Goodrich , ( 1947-02-26 ) 26 February 1947 (age 79) , Dagenham , Essex , England
Genres
Pop
Occupation
Singer
Years active
1964–2013
Labels
Pye Reprise Palace Polydor Virgin EMI
Website
sandieshaw .com

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Sandra Ann Goodrich MBE (born 26 February 1947), known professionally as Sandie Shaw, is an English retired singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, she had three UK number one singles with "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" (1964), "Long Live Love" (1965) and "Puppet on a String" (1967). With the latter, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom, becoming the first entrant from the country to win the contest. She was seen as epitomising the Swinging Sixties and was often described as "the barefoot pop princess of the 1960s". She returned to the UK Top 40, for the first time in 15 years, with her 1984 cover of the Smiths song "Hand in Glove". Shaw retired from the music industry in 2013.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sandie Shaw” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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