LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Alison Moyet: Dawn French
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Alison Moyet [I]s an outstanding singer whose career has stretched from the electropop of 1982 in the band Yazoo, through the multi-million selling solo hits from Alf, to the critically acclimed albums Hometime and Voice. Branching out into West End sucess Alison was a hugely popular Mama Morton in Chicago, and acted alongside Dawn French in new play Smaller.
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Dawn French and Alison Moyet will play two sisters whose mother is disabled. While Alison’s character sings in bars on Spain’s Costa Del Sol, French’s role is that of a school teacher who is ... responsible for caring for the sisters’ mother. Alison Moyet has written new music for the show, in which she will also sing.
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Had Dusty Springfield still been making records in 2007 with her vocal power intact, she might have sounded like Alison Moyet does on Turn. The similarities lie not only in the singing, but ... in the material, which mixes orchestrated pop/rock with a blue-eyed soul sensibility. There are important differences, though, chief among them the greater vibrato and stridency in Moyet's vocal delivery. The tracks are in an adult contemporary pop mold that's far above the usual standards for that genre, yet still too mainstream and, in some senses, slick and stiffly executed to find much favor among the hip crowd. It's still aimed at the mature pop market, but songs like "The Man in the Wings" betray a certain theatrical sensibility. As it happens, a few of the songs ("Smaller," the tango-flavored "Home," and "World Without End") were indeed first written (by Moyet and Pete Glenister, who are responsible for all the material on the album) and performed in 2006 for a stage play, Smaller, in which Moyet starred with Dawn French.
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Moyet was born in Billericay, Essex, England, to a French father and English mother. She grew up in Basildon, where she attended school. After leaving school at 16, she worked as a shop worker and trained as a piano tuner. She was involved in a number of punk rock, pub rock and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including The Vandals and the Screamin' Ab Dabs, The Vicars and The Little Roosters.
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Returning to the stage, Moyet composed and performed three new songs for the stage play Smaller, in which she starred alongside Dawn French and June Watson. Smaller, written by Carmel Morgan and directed by Kathy Burke, toured the regions before a successful run at the West End's Lyric Theatre in 2006.
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