I spent a lifetime trying to be someone else – now I’m free to be me

Freedom… that sweet word which, for me, encompasses everything that sums up what it feels like to be of a ‘certain age’.

Freedom… that sweet word which, for me, encompasses everything that sums up what it feels like to be of a ‘certain age’.

I have spent a lifetime in the music industry, as a jazz singer and later a vocal coach. I started in the 1950s, at a very early age, and by the 1960s was appearing on TV shows like Ready Steady Go and Top of the Pops.

From there I forg…