Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox
Ann "Annie" Lennox, OBEis a Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A. Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. With a total of eight Brit Awards, including Best British Female Artist six times, Lennox has won more than any other female artist. She has also been named the "Brits Champion of...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth25 December 1954
CityAberdeen, Scotland
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.
Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.
The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.