Eddi Reader at The Glee Birmingham

Eddi Reader grew up in Glasgow and Irvine, Scotland where she learned to use music as a vehicle for communicating through performing at folk clubs. Eddi travelled around Europe with circus before moving to London as a session vocalist. She famously harmonised with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that brought her into the limelight. The single ‘Perfect’ and album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts.

In 2001 she moved home to Glasgow where she recorded the Songs Of Robert Burns album. Awarded the MBE in 2006 for services to singing, she took her Burns songs on tour all over the world. In 2006 she released Peacetime on Rough Trade Records featuring the finest traditional players in the UK and produced by Folk Musician of The Year, John McCusker. Her seventh album, Love Is The Way, considered by many as her best, followed.

2010 saw Eddi’s Hollywood movie debut in Richard Linklater’s, Me And Orson Welles with Zak Efron and Clare Danes. Eddi plays a chanteuse in the movie and is featured singing ‘Lets Pretend That There’s A Moon’ with the Jools Holland Orchestra. The original soundtrack features another two performances from Eddi.

From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings joyous life to all forms of song. Her taste in co-writers, writers, songs and players is impeccable and anything with her name on it is guaranteed musical treasure. Her passion and instinct move people in a way reminiscent of those who have influenced her work. She has effortlessly developed into one of popular music’s most thrilling and affecting performers.