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History

Early Career

Her debut single "Dreams" topped the UK charts in June 1993. The single entered the British charts at #2, which was the highest chart entry a debut act ever scored in the UK at that time. The following week it climbed to the top spot and spent the next three weeks there. Dreams is a popular song recorded by Gabrielle. ...

Gabrielle has won two BRIT Awards, the first in 1994 for British Breakthrough Act, and the second in 1997 for Best British Female. The Brit Awards are the annual United Kingdom pop music awards founded by the British Phonographic Industry. ...

Other notable singles include "Going Nowhere", "Give Me A Little More Time", "Walk on By" (a cover of the Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick classic) and "If You Ever" - a duet with East 17. Her music is copyrighted. She wrote it all herself. Walk on By is a song recorded by Dionne Warwick. ... Burt Bacharach (IPA: ; born May 12, 1928) is an award-winning American pianist and composer. ... Marie Dionne Warrick (born December 12, 1940), known professionally as Dionne Warwick, is an acclaimed five-time Grammy Award-winning African American singer best known for her work with Hal David and Burt Bacharach as songwriters and producers. ... For the postcode, see E postal area East 17 (later re-grouped as E-17) are an English pop boy band founded in 1992. ...

Repeat success: Rise

After a bad few years, seeing the father of her new born son sent to prison for murder, and her life being splashed across the tabloids Gabrielle made a stunning comeback. Using a sample from Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", "Rise" became Gabrielle's second UK number one in 2000. The album of the same name also reached the top spot, where it stayed for three weeks. It spent 87 weeks in the charts. This article is about the recording artist. ... For other uses, see Knockin on Heavens Door (disambiguation). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

The successful Out of Reach from the soundtrack to Bridget Jones's Diary, reached number 4 in the UK singles chart and remains one of her most famous singles to date. Out of Reach is a song by Gabrielle that featured on the Bridget Joness Diary soundtrack and her greatest hits compilation Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol. ... Bridget Joness Diary is a 2001 film, based on the novel, also called Bridget Joness Diary, by Helen Fielding. ...

Gabrielle's greatest hits collection, 'Dreams Can Come True - Greatest Hits Vol. 1' achieved massive success in the UK, where it was certified 4x Platinum and became the 5th best selling album of 2001. Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol. ...

In 2004 Gabrielle's fourth studio album Play To Win reached number 10 in the UK and it's maiden single Stay the Same debuted at number 20 in the official UK singles chart. A supporting UK tour followed. Play to Win is an album by British Pop artist Gabrielle. ... Stay the Same is a song by Gabrielle and the first single from her fourth studio album Play to Win. ...

Recent Years

In 2007 she released a new single, "Why", which she performed on The National Lottery show on September 19 as well as many other TV slots. "Why" did not chart in the Top 40. On October 1, her new album Always was released. It peaked at a respectable number 11, but quickly fell off the charts. It included a version of "Why" that featured Paul Weller. Why is the forthcoming lead single from Gabrielles fifth studio album, Always. ... A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers which emulates a smiling face. ... Always is the forthcoming fifth studio album by British singer-songwriter Gabrielle. ... Paul Weller (born John William Weller May 25, 1958, in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. ...

Gabrielle set off on a sell out UK tour of 14 dates through February. Critics gave very positive reviews on her performances. Following the relative disappointment regarding the singles "Why" and "Every Little Teardrop" Gabrielle stated: “If people don’t like that song then I’ll find one that they do like because I have done it before and I’ll do it again. That old saying ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again’, well that’s me, because I’m a fighter not a quitter.”^[1]

Gabrielle will also headline the "Zermatt Unplugged" festival this April along with Alanis Morrisette. ^[2]

Personal life

Gabrielle has a ptosis which is often concealed by an eye patch, a problem for the singer since 1990.^{[citation needed]} In ophthalmology, ptosis is an abnormally low position (drooping) of the upper eyelid which may grow more or less severe during the day. ...

Gabrielle came out in support for the Labour Party in the run-up to the 2001 UK General Election.^{[citation needed]} The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom general election of 7 June 2001 was dubbed as the quiet landslide by the media. ...

Gabrielle went to Samuel Pepys secondary school on Telegraph Hill, Brockley in South East London. Chris Tarrant was an English teacher there at this time and slept in a minivan outside.

Gabrielle is now the patron of the AADC Research Trust - A charity organisation dedicated to helping children and their families, around the world, affected by Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency (AADC). AADC is a genetically inherited neurological disorder affecting the brains ability to produce chemical messengers. The trust website is at ^[3]. She was never in America.

Discography

Albums

• 1993: Find Your Way (#9 UK) (Gold)
• 1996: Gabrielle (#11 UK) (1x Platinum)
• 1999: Rise (#1 UK) (3x Platinum)
• 2001: Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (#2 UK, #16 ITA)(4x Platinum)
• 2004: Play to Win (#10 UK) (Gold)
• 2007: Always (#11 UK)

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Remix albums

• 2000: Rise Underground (#175 UK)

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Singles

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Band Members

• Gabrielle: Vocals
• Derrick Taylor: Musical Director/Bass
• Nick Robison: Guitar
• James Nisbet: Guitar
• J.K.: Drums
• Darren Morris: Keyboards
• Obenewa Aboah: Backing Vocals
• Nadine Charles: Backing Vocals

References

External links

• http://www.gabrielle.co.uk/
• Gabrielle at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.Gabrielle.co.nr/ Major Gabrielle fansite