Joan Armatrading | Starlight | CD

Joan Armatrading is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist, born on 9 December 1950 in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. She moved with her family to Birmingham in 1957 and went to London in the early 1970s to perform in a repertory production of Hair. She has been nominated three times for a Grammy Award and twice for a Brit Award as best female vocalist, and was made an MBE in 2001. She owns Bumpkin Studios, a purpose-built recording facility in the grounds of her home in Surrey, where she has recorded most of her albums.

Starlight is a one-disc CD album by Joan Armatrading on the Hypertension label. Armatrading wrote, arranged, produced and recorded the album, and she plays electric and acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, and the horn and string parts on keyboards. She also programmed the drums. The album is in the contemporary jazz and soul-jazz styles.

Track List

1. Single Life
2. Close to Me
3. Tell Me
4. Back On Track
5. I Want That Love
6. The Way I Think of You
7. Always On My Mind
8. Starlight
9. Busy With You
10. Summer Kisses