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 think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
I love to make music and stay grounded.
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
I like where I live here, in London.
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.
I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.
I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.