41 Facts About Sheena Easton

Sheena Shirley Easton is a Scottish singer and actress.

Sheena Easton came into the public eye in an episode of the first British musical reality television series The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record deal and her eventual signing with the EMI label.

Sheena Easton became one of the most successful British female recording artists of the 1980s.

Sheena Easton has recorded 15 studio albums, released a total of 55 singles and had 20 consecutive US singles, including 15 Top 40 hits, seven Top 10's and one number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1981 and 1991.

Sheena Easton has received five RIAA-certified Gold albums and one Platinum album.

Sheena Easton Shirley Orr was born on 27 April 1959, at Bellshill Maternity Hospital in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, the youngest of six children of Annie and steel mill labourer Alex Orr.

Sheena Easton has two brothers, Robert and Alex, and three sisters, Marilyn, Anessa, and Morag.

Sheena Easton's father died in 1969 and her mother had to support the family.

Sheena Easton did not consider a singing career until she saw the movie The Way We Were, with Barbra Streisand.

Sheena Easton chose to study teaching rather than performing, because it was a course of study that would let her perfect her craft as a singer.

Sheena Easton was selected as the subject for the programme; EMI executives awarded her a contract, and Christopher Neil was assigned as her recording producer.

Deke Arlon became her first manager, and Sheena Easton spent much of 1980 being followed by camera crews, who filmed her throughout the process of her audition through to making her first EMI single, "Modern Girl".

Sheena Easton actually appears in the opening credits of For Your Eyes Only, performing the song; as of 2022, she remains the only Bond theme singer to be featured in this way.

Sheena Easton was one of the first artists to record "Wind Beneath My Wings", which later was a hit for Bette Midler.

In January 1983, Sheena Easton duetted with Kenny Rogers and had a top 10 hit in the US with "We've Got Tonight", a cover of the Bob Seger song.

Around the time of her hit record with Rogers, Sheena Easton headlined Act One, a one-hour variety special broadcast on NBC that featured Rogers and a cameo appearance by Johnny Carson.

In 1984, Sheena Easton recorded a Spanish-language single, "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres", a duet with Mexican star Luis Miguel.

In late 1985, Sheena Easton contributed "It's Christmas " to the holiday release Santa Claus: The Movie.

In 1987, Sheena Easton appeared in Prince's concert film Sign o' the Times, during which she sang duet vocals for Prince's hit, "U Got the Look", which became a number 2 hit in the US.

In November 1987, Sheena Easton made her first dramatic acting appearance on the television program Miami Vice.

Sheena Easton played a singer named Caitlin Davies, whom Sonny Crockett was assigned to protect until her court appearance to render crucial testimony against certain corrupt music industry mavens.

In 1990, Sheena Easton revisited her home country of Scotland to perform at a festival in Glasgow.

Sheena Easton is one of the few pop artists to adopt the new jack swing sound with chart success from the early 1990s.

Sheena Easton followed this with the non-charting but critically acclaimed No Strings, an album of jazz standards produced by Patrice Rushen.

The album saw Sheena Easton reunite with producer Christopher Neil for the first time in over a decade.

Sheena Easton contributed vocals to the soundtrack of All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and voiced the character Sasha La Fleur on "Count Me Out" and "I Will Always Be With You".

Sheena Easton contributed the theme song "Are There Angels" to the soundtrack for Shiloh in 1997; and provided the song "A Dream Worth Keeping" for the 1992 animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest.

Sheena Easton adopted a boy and girl between 1995 and 1996.

Sheena Easton continued acting in America, starring in lead Broadway revivals of Man of La Mancha as opposite Raul Julia in his last stage role, and Grease as Rizzo.

Sheena Easton voiced the character of Fiona Canmore for a scripted but unfinished episode of the cancelled animated feature, Team Atlantis.

In December 1998, Sheena Easton toured with the American production "The Colors of Christmas" with artists Roberta Flack, Melissa Manchester, Peabo Bryson and Jeffrey Osborne.

Sheena Easton contributed two tracks, "The Place Where We Belong" and "The Lord's Prayer".

Sheena Easton signed an album contract with Universal International UK and attempted a comeback with Fabulous, an album of classic disco covers.

In 2003, Sheena Easton contributed vocals to "If You're Happy", a cover for a Japanese disc called Cover Morning Musume-Hello Project.

Sheena Easton began to host Vegas Live, a talk show with Clint Holmes.

In 2015 Sheena Easton embarked on symphony concerts with guest vocalists entitled "The Spy Who Loved Me" with material from spy movies of the past and present and featuring Bond-style music with symphonies around the United States beginning in San Francisco from July 2015 and continuing into 2016.

Sheena Easton performed a small tour of dates during the latter part of 2015 in Australia featuring her Greatest Hits.

In November 2016, Sheena Easton accepted the role of Dorothy Brock in the revival production of 42nd Street, which premiered on 20 March 2017 in London's West End, Drury Lane.

Sheena Easton performed at the 2021 New York State Fair, and two of her albums, Fabulous and an expanded edition of What Comes Naturally were reissued digitally through Apple Music.

Sheena Easton has been married, and divorced, four times and has two adopted children.

Sheena Easton became a US citizen in 1992, carrying dual citizenship with the United Kingdom, and adopted her first child, Jake Rion Cousins Sheena Easton, in 1994.