Sheena Easton

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Sheena Shirley Easton (née Orr; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and songwriter.

She is a dual British-American citizen.

Easton came into the public eye in an episode of the first British musical reality television programme The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records. Easton's first two singles, "Modern Girl" and "9 to 5", both entered the UK Top Ten, and she was the first UK female artist to appear twice in the same Top Ten since Ruby Murray.

In 1981, "9 to 5" (retitled "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" for the US market) topped the US Hot 100, making her the third UK female solo artist to achieve this, following Petula Clark and Lulu, and she became one of the most successful British female performers of the 1980s. A six-time Grammy nominee in the U.S., Easton is a two-time Grammy Award winner, winning Best New Artist in 1982 and Best Mexican-American Performance in 1985, for her duet with Luis Miguel on the song "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres".

She has received five U.S. Gold albums and one U.S. Platinum album.

She has recorded 16 studio albums, released 45 singles total worldwide, and had 20 consecutive US singles, including 15 U.S. Top 40 singles, seven U.S. top tens and one U.S. No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1981 and 1991.

She also had 25 top 40 hits in international territories around the world.

In Canada, Easton scored three gold and two platinum albums.

She has sold over 20 million records and singles worldwide. Easton became the first artist in history to have a Top 5 hit on each of Billboard's primary singles charts, with "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" (both pop and adult contemporary), "We've Got Tonight" with Kenny Rogers (country) and "Sugar Walls" (both R&B and dance). Easton's other hits include the James Bond theme "For Your Eyes Only", "Strut", "U Got the Look" and "The Arms of Orion" with Prince, "The Lover in Me" and "What Comes Naturally".

She has worked with prominent vocalists and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil, Kenny Rogers, David Foster, Luis Miguel, L.A. Reid & Babyface, Patrice Rushen and Nile Rodgers.

Personal life

Easton has been married, and divorced, four times and has two adopted children. Her first marriage was in Scotland to Sandi Easton at the age of 19. The marriage lasted eight months. Sandi Easton died in 1998, aged 48.

Her second marriage in 1984 to Rob Light, a talent agent, ended after 18 months. Easton became a US citizen in 1992, carrying dual citizenship with the United Kingdom, and adopted her first child, Jake Rion Cousins Easton, in 1994. Two years later, she adopted again, this time a baby girl she named Skylar. In the summer of 1997, she met producer Tim Delarm while filming an episode of ESPN Canon Photo Safari in Yellowstone National Park and they married in Las Vegas in July 1997; the marriage lasted one year. On 9 November 2002, she married John Minoli, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon; they divorced in 2003.

Easton resides in Henderson, Nevada.

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Life and career

Sheena Orr was born in 1959, at Bellshill Maternity Hospital in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and the youngest of six children of Annie and steel mill labourer Alex Orr. Marilyn, Anessa, and Morag have two brothers, Robert and Alex, as well as three sisters, Marilyn, Anessa, and Morag. At the couple's 25th wedding anniversary celebration, she sang "Early One Morning" for her uncle and aunt, as well as various relatives at the age of five.

In 1969, Easton's father died and his mother had to care for her children. "Sheena always speaks highly of her mother and her siblings, even after they were not registered in school."

Before seeing Barbra Streisand's film The Way We Were, Easton didn't think about a singing career. The young girl's singing over the opening credits "overtook" her and told her that what she wanted most was to be a singer and had the same effect on others.

Her best grades in school earned her a scholarship to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where she studied from 1975 to 1979 as a speech and drama instructor by day, as well as performing with "Something Else" by night at local clubs. She preferred teaching rather than performing because it was a program of study that would enable her to perfect her craft as a singer.

Sandi Easton, the first of her four husbands, married her in 1979. They divorced after eight months, but Sheena chose to keep the surname Easton. One of her tutors led her to audition for Esther Rantzen, the BBC's programme The Big Time producer. Rantzen was planning a documentary film to chronicle a relative stranger's ascension to pop-stardom. Easton was chosen as the subject of the programme,EMI executives earned her a job, and Christopher Neil was assigned as her recording engineer. Deke Arlon became her first boss, and Easton spent the majority of 1980 being followed by camera crews who filmed her throughout the process of her audition to her first EMI single, "Modern Girl." Dorothy Squires, Dusty Springfield, and Lulu's producer Marion Massey told her that she considered Easton as a potential TV star with her own series, but not as a pop singer with a sense of individuality in the 1980s.

The encounter with Massey (then Marion London), when Lulu was present, was shot and broadcast, though Massey was not entirely wrong, when the show "Modern Girl" had flopped on its release, peaking at no.56 in just three weeks on the UK Singles Chart in April 1980. "Modern Girl" was reissued, and the track and its sequel "Nine to Five" both leapt into the top ten, denying Massey's prediction. This special ended with news of Easton's entry into the American market in a redesigned and expanded version of this episode of The Big Time, which aired in 1981.

"Modern Girl," Easton's first single, the disco-tinged soft-synth-pop tune, was released in the United Kingdom before The Big Time aired, reaching number 56. Easton was also uncertain about her future as a singer at the end of the performance. The question was settled soon after the show aired, when her second single, "9 to 5" debuted on the UK Singles Chart and was named a Gold single in 1980. "Modern Girl" re-entered the charts and soared to the top ten, gaining a Silver single, while Easton discovered two songs in the UK top ten simultaneously. The Daily Mirror Pop & Rock Awards, "Best Newcomer" by Capital Radio, and "Best Female Artist" by the TV Times Readers Awards in 1980, Easton was named "Best British Female Singer" by Capital Radio.

Easton's first single release in the United States was "9 to 5", although the new "Morning Train (Nine to Five) was released in the United States and Canada to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton's hit movie title song "9 to 5". In Billboard's first and only number one hit in the United States, "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" became Easton's first and only number one hit, and it topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts. After 1981, "Modern Girl" was released as the sequel and peaked at number 18, and with the Academy Award-nominated James Bond film theme "For Your Eyes Only," a Top Tension hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In 1982, the song was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award in the category "Best Music (Original Song)". Easton's popularity in the United States culminated in her winning the Grammy Award for "Best New Artist" for 1982.

Sheena Easton (1981), You Could Have Been With Me (1981), and Madness, Money & Music (1982), were among Easton's first three US albums (rebranded version of Take My Time). You Could Have Been With Me made it to the top of the US top ten, but by the end of 1982, she saw her sales plummeting. Easton was one of the first artists to record "Wind Beneath My Wings" (included on Madness, Money & Music), a hit for Bette Midler.

In 1982, Easton undertook her first US tour. Sheena Easton Live in Los Angeles was shot and broadcast on HBO and later announced on VHS and Laserdisc as Sheena Easton Live at the Palace, Hollywood.

On November 8, 1982, she appeared in the Royal Variety Performance in front of the Queen Mother, who was performing Perhaps This Time.

With "We've Got Tonight," a tribute to Bob Seger's 1981, Easton duetted with Kenny Rogers and became a top ten hit in the United States. The recording also earned her a number one single on the Country chart, and it also made it to the UK Top 30. Easton headlined Act One, a one-hour variety special on NBC that featured Rogers and a cameo appearance by Johnny Carson around the time of her hit number with Rogers.

Best Kept Secret and its first single, "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair), was released in October 1983, becoming her fourth Top 10 hit. The single was nominated for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" of 1983. "Almost Over You," the follow-up single, made it to the US Top 30 and was a number 4 AC chart hit. "Almost Over You" was a hit in Asia and was covered by Chinese singer Cass Pang. Lila McCann was also a hit on the Country charts in 1998.

"I Like You Just the Way You Are" ("I Like You Just the Way You Are"), a duet with Mexican singer Luis Miguel in 1984, Easton released "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres" in Spanish-language ("I Like You Just the Way You Are"), a duet with Mexican star Luis Miguel. The artist received her second Grammy Award, this time for Best Mexican-American Performance. The track was taken from Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) and reissued by Capitol/EMI-Latin in 1989, which included Spanish-language covers of seven previous Easton recordings and three new ones. She made a leap into a sexy dance-pop siren in the same year, changing her performance style along the way. She was honoured with the best-selling US album of her career, RIAA-certified gold & platinum A Private Heaven (1984), and her sixth top ten US single, "Strut." The change in the United Kingdom, on the other hand, was not a commercial success, as Easton would find herself at the bottom of the UK top 75 for the next three years.

Easton's career is on the rise in the United States, and she was nominated for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" in 1984. She was also one of the first artists to have a music video banned for reasons of its lyrics rather than its appearance; some broadcasters refused to air the sexually risqué "Sugar Walls," which had been written for her by Prince (using the pseudonym Alexander Nevermind). Tipper Gore of the Parents Music Resource Center selected "Sugar Walls" as one of "Filthy Fifteen," a list of songs that have been classified indecent due to their lyrics, as well as Prince's own "Darling Nikki." The song eventually debuted at number three on the R&B singles chart, number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number one on the Billboard Dance Chart in 1985.

Do You (1985), Easton's sequel to A Private Heaven, was released by Nile Rodgers and received gold status, but it didn't produce any breakout singles of the chart calibre of "Strut" or "Sugar Walls." In late 1985, Easton contributed "It's Christmas (All Over the World)" to the holiday collection Santa Claus: The Movie. After an initial single release, "Eternity" (another Prince creation), struggles to reach the pop, R&B, or adult contemporary charts in 1987, the unveiling of a sequel to No Sound But a Heart (1987) was delayed in the United States. The album went from February to June, but then the release was postponed until Easton's lawyers requested that the album be delayed until EMI Records was integrated into EMI/Manhattan. (This did not prevent the album from being available in Canada, Europe, and other countries.)

Other artists covered "Wanna Give My Love" and "What If We Fall in Love" on a 1987 duet album named for the latter artist; Celine Dion sang "The Last to Know" on 1990's Unison, while Mexican singer Yuri performed "Floating Hearts" on 1989's Pia Z; and singer Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris performed "Wanna Give Me Love" on 1989's "Wanna Give Your Love" on her album "Looking for Love." No Sound But a Heart became available in the United States in 1999, with four bonus tracks, including Easton's contribution to the soundtrack of the 1986 film "About Last Night, "Natural Love" and the Top 50 single "So Far, So Good."

Easton appeared in Prince's concert film Sign o' the Times in 1987, during which she performed duet vocals for Prince's hit, "U Got the Look," which became a No. 1 in the United States. In the United States, two tornadoes have struck. "Best R&B Vocal, Duo or Group" and "Best R&B Song" of 1987 were given Grammy Awards for both "Best R&B Vocal, Duo or Group" and "Best R&B Song" of 1987. The track has also returned Easton to the United Kingdom for the first time in nearly four years, although Easton is not credited on the song's single release. During her time as Prince Margaret's collaborator, Easton was encouraged to write her own material. "The Arms of Orion," Prince's second duet and a single from 1989's Batman soundtrack, was the most fruitful effort from their co-writers. In her native United Kingdom, the song debuted at number 36 on the US Billboard Chart and number 27. Patti LaBelle's album "Love '89" and "La, La, He, Hee" (he recorded for the B-side of Prince's album "Sign o' the Times), as well as "Love '89" by her co-wrote the song "Love '89" for Patti LaBelle's album "Be Yourself and "La, La La, Hee," which Prince co-wrote for Patti LaBelle's The two celebrities were romantically linked by the tabloid press, which she has always denied.

Easton made her first dramatic appearance on the television show Miami Vice in November 1987. Caitlin Davies, a singer who Sonny Crockett was not expected to shield until her court appearance to testify against certain corrupt music industry mavens, was played. By the time of the episode, Sonny and Caitlin were married, the first of five episodes for Easton.

A volume of the Miami Vice soundtrack was released in 1988 and featured "Follow My Rainbow," which Easton had begun singing on her last appearance just moments before her character was cancelled.

The song appeared on her forthcoming album The Lover in Me (1988), RIAA's debut on her new label MCA Records in the fall, putting Easton back on the US and UK charts after the initial release of No Sound But a Heart was postponed in the United States. This collection features Urban R&B and Dance-pop as well as a sexier image. The title song from "Morning Train" debuted at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK number 15 and became her biggest pop hit since "Morning Train." On the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart, it has also ranked at number 5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Top Singles and Tracks chart, which also ranks as the top ranked player on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart. It was ranked on the US R&B chart by "Days Like This" (number 35), which missed the Billboard Hot 100. The Prince-penned "101," the third single on the Billboard Dance chart, ranked second. "No Deposit, No Return" was the final single released, but it didn't appear on the charts. The album received good feedback and showcased collaborations with L.A. Reid and Babyface, Prince, Angela Winbush, and Jellybean Benitez.

In 1990, Easton returned to Scotland to appear at a festival (The Big Day) in Glasgow. She had bottles (some containing urine) thrown at her and, apparently shaken, she was compelled to cut her set short after announcing that it was "good to be back home" in an American accent. She has promised not to appear in Scotland again.

What Comes Naturally became Easton's last chart in the United States in 1991, peaking at number 90. The title track was also her last Top 40 single to date, peaking at number 19. It was also the first hit in Australia since the mid-1980s, with peaking at number 4. "You Can Swing It" and "To Anyone," two other singles, were released, but the chart didn't stick to it. On the ARIA Chart in Australia, "What Comes Naturally" remained on the US pop chart for ten weeks and eleven weeks. On three tracks, Easton has written a song. She is also one of the few pop artists to adopt the new jack swing sound with chart success from the 1990s.

"Modern Girl" (Live in San Diego) by "That's Life" recordings in Germany and Japan in 1992 was released in 1992. When she appeared stateside on her first international tour in 1982, the music was from her early days with EMI and became a sort of bootleg version of her concert.

Easton followed this with the non-charting but highly acclaimed No Strings (1993), an album of jazz standards by Patrice Rushen. It contained her version of "The Nearness of You," which was also included on the soundtrack of the film Indecent Proposal, in which Easton appeared in a cameo role.

My Cherie (1995) was her last pop album to see domestic release in the United States. For the first time in more than a decade, Sheena reunited with producer Christopher Neil on the album.

Easton appeared on "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and "I Will Always Be With You" as a character. In 1997, Easton contributed "Are There Angels" to the soundtrack for Shiloh, as well as the film "A Dream Worth Keeping" from the 1992 animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest.

In a second-season episode of the Canadian television series "Outer Limits," she starred as 'Melissa McCammon', a recording actress who is visited by time travelers from the future. She performed two songs from My Cherie on the episode.

Easton stayed on an album deal with MCA Japan in the late 1990s and released two discs of new information. However, neither album was ever released in the United States. Freedom, which appeared in 1997 to coincide with the launch of her website and then in 2007 as part of the Limited Edition, was a return to her trademark pop, with a remake of her debut single "Modern Girl."

Home, a self-produced acoustic set that was released in 1999 by Universal/Victor. Also around this time, Sheena Easton's Greatest Hits collection, which includes 12 MCA singles from 1988 to 1995, was exhibited and charted in Japan at number 98 (additional greatest hits collections appeared in the United States and UK, but did not chart).

Between 1995 and 1996, Easton adopted both a boy (Jake) and a girl (Skylar). Motherhood caused her to cancel her appearances and focusing on casino gigs, corporate shows, and theatrical performances. "I adopted my children so I could plan my timing," The Arizona Republic said. "I knew when they were coming along, so I knew when I'd have to change my life to ensure it would be a happy life."

Easton continued to perform in America, appearing in lead Broadway revivals of Man of La Mancha (1992), and Grease as Rizzo (1996). She appeared in numerous characters in Gargoyles' animated film, including Lady Finella, the Banshee, Molly, and Robyn Canmore, between 1994 and 1996. In the computer game Planescape: Torment, she voiced Annah-of-the-Shadows, a part-demon character. She and her two children reside in Las Vegas and often appear in various casino's entertainment venues. Fiona Canmore appeared in a scripted but unfinished episode of Team Atlantis, the cancelled animated film.

Artist Roberta Flack, Melissa Manchester, Peabo Bryson, and Jeffrey Osborne appeared on "The Colors of Christmas" in December 1998. Robbie Buchanan's "The Colors of Christmas" album of holiday music was released by Windham Hill Records. "The Place Where We Belong" (a duet with Jeffrey Osborne) and "The Lord's Prayer" were two songs by Easton.

One Way Records, a New York company, reserved the right to publish any of Easton's EMI-America catalogs in 1999. No Sound But a Heart was released in the United States for the first time in the United States, 12 years after the album was released elsewhere. All of Easton'sEMI back catalogue (with the exception of her Spanish-language album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti) was re-released and remastered with bonus tracks that included B-sides and remixes.

Universal Japan issued Best Ballads, a disc of ballads from her six previous albums, with the exception of "For Your Eyes Only" for the Japanese market, which didn't chart.

She also signed an album deal with Universal International UK and began a comeback with Fabulous (2000), an album of classic disco covers. "Get Up, Giving In," the first single from the United Kingdom, reached number 54, and the album debuted at number 185 on the UK charts. "Love is in Control," Donna Summer's hit song "Love Is in Charge," was released on double-A-side "Don't Leave Me This Way." This was supposed to be Easton's last album release to date. The album was distributed throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, and Argentina, but not in the United States. "Fabulous" was released in Australia on February 24, 2001, and Easton was invited to perform songs from the album to close out the 2001 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras performances.

Easton appeared on "If You're Happi," a Japanese disc cover for a Japanese record called Cover Morning Musume-Hello Project in 2003. In addition, she began to host Vegas Live, a talk show hosted by Clint Holmes (later replaced by Brian McKnight). In 2004, she was inducted into the Tropicana Resort & Casino's Casino Legends Hall of Fame.

Demon/Edsel Records (UK) remastered Easton's You Could Have Been With Me and Madness, Money & Music, alongside A Private Heaven and Do You in two compact disc sets remastered with bonus tracks, with the former including the extended version of "Jimmy Mack" that has never appeared on any of her reissues. Warner Music in the United Kingdom released a box set of Easton's first five albums in an original album series CD collection in November 2014.

In 2015, Easton embarked on "The Spy Who Loved Me" symphony concerts with guest vocalists from spy films past and present, as well as Bond-style music with symphonies throughout the United States, beginning in San Francisco in July 2015. During the latter part of 2015 in Australia, Easton hosted her Greatest Hits, she also did a small tour of dates.

Dorothy Brock played Dorothy Brock in the revival of 42nd Street, which premiered in London's West End, Drury Lane, in November 2016. In March 2018, Lulu was replaced by Easton.

Easton appeared at the 2021 New York State Fair in Washington, New York, and two of her albums, Fabulous and an extended version of What Comes Naturally, were reissued digitally by Apple Music.

RT Industries (US) and Cherry Red Records (UK) launch a re-issue campaign of the EMI star's back catalog and released the three-CD box set The Definitive Singles 1980-1987, which included all of Easton's English-language singles recorded for EMI, as well as some previously unreleased vault material along with the new launches in 2022 and some previously unreleased vault material. Apple Music made additional Easton material available digitally on Nov. 19, 2021, including photos from Easton's post--1987 MCA/Universal's post-1987 era.

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