Posts tagged with "ANNIE LENNOX"
ANNIE LENNOX
ANNIE LENNOX
The Scottish soul diva soars on a singular standards set
Annie Lennox—the wonderfully eccentric, madly soulful former Eurythmics singer—has released a decidedly nonstandard standards album. Nostalgia, the follow-up to 2010’s critically lauded A Christmas Cornucopia, came about totally by accident after Lennox performed some jazz tunes with Herbie Hancock at the 2012 International AIDS Conference. “It struck me that I had this...
ANNIE LENNOX
ANNIE LENNOX
Revisiting the music of her childhood while looking ahead
If Annie Lennox had done nothing in her life except sing “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” the 1983 No. 1 smash that helped define that decade, her place in pop history would be secure. But there’s been no stopping her for nearly three decades. With the Eurythmics—the duo she formed in 1980 with Dave Stewart—Lennox scored hit after hit, from “Here Comes the Rain Again”...