Biography
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading (, born 9 December 1950) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her first major commercial success came with her third and fourth albums, Joan Armatrading (1976) and Show Some Emotion (1977), and she continues to play live and record studio albums. A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
A Kind Of Magic
1986
Show Some Emotion
1977
Joan Armatrading
1976
A Private Heaven
1984
Track Record
1983
The Key
1983
To The Limit
1978
Nightingales & Bombers
1975
Me Myself I
1980
Walk Under Ladders
1981
10 Things I Hate About You (Music From The Motion Picture)
1999
Steppin' Out
1979
How Cruel
1979
Whatever's For Us
1972
Studio Collection
2015
Perfect Day '97
1997
The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (The Music)
1987
Spontaneous Inventions
1986
Secret Secrets
1985
Back In The Day
2000
Recorded Highlights Of The Prince's Trust 10th Anniversary Birthday Party
1987
Sleight Of Hand
1986
Drop The Pilot
1983
Chart Encounters Of The Hit Kind - Part One
1983
Credited work
1,850 releases · 217 albums · active 1972–2025
- Performance · 5,469
- Production · 517
- Other credits · 268
- Engineering · 33
Studios: Olympic Studios · The Town House · Musicland Studios · Mountain Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Queen
- Mark Holden
- Manfred Mann's Earth Band
- Kate Ceberano
- Freddie White
- Two Nice Girls
- Dianne Reeves