Geraldine "Dina" Carroll was born on 21 August 1968 and is an English singer.
24 Facts About Dina Carroll
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Dina Carroll won Best British Female Solo Artist at the 1994 Brit Awards.
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Dina Carroll was born in Newmarket, England to a Scottish mother and an American father.
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Dina Carroll started singing aged five, and despite the lack of formal vocal coaching, she won a local talent competition in 1981, at the age of thirteen, with her rendition of Barbra Streisand's "Woman in Love".
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Dina Carroll moved to West London and recorded two singles for the company's StreetWave dance music singles label called "Set It Off" and "One Nation".
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Dina Carroll interrupted the writing and recording of her album to record "Special Kind of Love", which reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart.
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Dina Carroll announced her first British tour for November and December 1993 with the then unknown Eternal as supporting guests.
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Dina Carroll was named Best Female Artist at the BRIT Awards in February 1994.
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Dina Carroll then took a break from her recording and touring obligations, stating that she felt "burned out".
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Rumours of new songs from Dina Carroll started to surface in the summer of 1995, but instead of releasing them, she found herself in the midst of contractual problems.
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Dina Carroll postponed treatment until after all her recording duties had been fulfilled.
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Dina Carroll had an operation to replace a whole eardrum, but went back to work almost immediately to promote the album.
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Dina Carroll was nominated for "Best British Female Artist" in the 1997 BRIT Awards.
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Dina Carroll then went into artistic hibernation, and although there were press reviews of tracks like "Livin' for the Weekend", the decision was made to concentrate on the making of the 3rd album rather than release more singles from the 2nd as Mercury were happy with the sales figures off the back of just two singles.
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Dina Carroll returned to the drawing board in 1998 for her third album.
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The new album, Dina Carroll, was originally planned for release at the end of 1998, including her cover of the Dusty Springfield song, "Son of a Preacher Man".
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Part of promotion saw Dina Carroll performing the track live on Dale Winton's Saturday night Lottery Show.
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However, Dina Carroll appeared on the charity single "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" along with many other stars such as the Spice Girls.
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All of their acts had declining record sales and Dina Carroll was caught up in this so left First Avenue at the end of 2000.
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Dina Carroll's cover version of Van Morrison's "Someone Like You", featured in the Bridget Jones's Diary soundtrack, reached number 38.
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In 2002, Dina Carroll left her contract with Universal Music Group.
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In 2003, Dina Carroll recorded a version of the Randy Crawford song, "Almaz".
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In 2016, Dina Carroll appeared as a guest vocalist on "We Bring the Party" by the Dig Band, produced by long time collaborator Nigel Lowis.
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Dina Carroll made her live comeback in 2016 as the headline act on the "David Gest Is Not Dead but Alive With Soul" tour.