Stephanie De Sykes

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Stephanie De Sykes
Birth nameStephanie Ryton
Born1948 (age 75–76)
England
GenresPop
Occupation(s)Singer
LabelsBradleys Records

Stephanie De Sykes (born Stephanie Ryton,[1] 1948) is an English singer and actress.

Early life

She attended

Harlow, Essex
; she returned to the school for a final reunion in June 2008 as guest of honour.

Career

Solo singer

De Sykes began her career as a session singer, often releasing tracks under other names. Her first release in 1972 was "Bright Shines The Light" on the Polydor label, credited as 'Verity'. She had her first

theme tune to the television programme The Golden Shot with the group Rain that same year.[5] The theme song, "Golden Day", was written for them by Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue.[5]

Around this time, the television company

Crossroads, De Sykes returned to the UK Top 20 as a solo artist with the song "We'll Find Our Day", a song she performed in the series[3] which was featured at Meg Mortimer's wedding in the UK TV soap opera in 1975. De Sykes appeared in the show as singer 'Holly Brown'. She also had a starring role in the comedy Side by Side.[1]
In 1977, she sang "Cool Wind from the North", in Episode 1 of the Marc Bolan TV show, Marc.

Groups and backing singer

De Sykes was one of

Vicki Brown and Katie Kissoon.[6]

She was once a background vocalist of

Alec R Costandinos. She also sang with the group "Sphinx"[7] and with Voyage
.

De Sykes / Slater

De Sykes and Stuart Slater

Prima Donna's "Love Enough for Two" in 1978 and 1980 respectively. De Sykes and Slater had one other song in the UK final, "All Around The World" in 1983, which was performed by Slater, ostensibly as a soloist, but with five musicians, including De Sykes on keyboards and vocals. The song placed fifth of the eight submissions.[citation needed
]

Later career

Her 1979 self-penned single release "Oh, What A Night For Romance" was featured on the BBC1 show Juke Box Jury, when it was panned by the panel of Dusty Springfield, Tony Blackburn, Jonathan King and Britt Ekland who unanimously correctly predicted it would be a 'miss'. De Sykes featured in a TV commercial for McVities biscuits in the 1983 Christmas period[8] and soon after provided background vocals for Meat Loaf's 1984 album Bad Attitude,[9] which included the Jim Steinman penned single, "Nowhere Fast".[10]

As a human rights activist,

Not In Our Name, a collaboration of singers and musicians, songwriters and poets.[citation needed
]

Personal life

De Sykes lived with Stuart Slater (born Stuart Leslie James Slater, 14 July 1945, Liverpool), lead singer of The Mojos,[12] with whom she had two sons: musician Toby Slater;[6] and Barnaby Slater, a comedian, writer and producer.[13]

She was then in a relationship with the comedian and broadcaster Angus Deayton,[14] and was credited with some of the female vocals on the 1985 second album of his parody band, The Hee Bee Gee Bees. Their relationship broke up in the early 1990s, after he began an affair with scriptwriter Lise Mayer in 1991.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "MovieTome Popular Search - pop/rock". 31 May 2008. Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  3. ^
    ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .
  4. ISBN 0-646-11917-6
    .
  5. ^ a b c "Stephanie De Sykes – Biography – IMDb". Media-imdb.com. 1 May 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Stephanie De Sykes | Profile & Photos". DiscoMusic.com. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Stephanie de Sykes | Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  8. ^ [1] [dead link]
  9. ^ "Bad Attitude – Meat Loaf | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  10. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Bad Attitude – Meat Loaf | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  11. ^ Stephanie de Sykes
  12. ^ DiscoMusic.com. "Stephanie De Sykes | Profile & Photos". DiscoMusic.com. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  13. ^ "Barnaby Slater | TROIKA". Clients.troikatalent.com. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  14. ^ Ironside, Virginia (28 October 1994). "Dear Stephanie de Sykes". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  15. ^ "Have they got news for him? Angus Deayton returns to prime time TV". This is London. 24 May 2007. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

External links

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