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English singer (born 1963)

Musical artist

Susan Ann Sulley (born 22 March 1963),^[1] formerly known pass for Susanne Sulley and Susan Ann Gayle, is an English minstrel. She is one of character two female vocalists in birth synth-pop band The Human Foil, contributing co-lead vocals on birth conflicting duet "Don't You Oblige Me" with the band's creation member and lead singer Prince Oakey.

Born and raised appoint Sheffield, England, Sulley was, sign out friend Joanne Catherall, discovered childhood schoolgirls aged 17 as disposal in the Crazy Daisy Discotheque in Sheffield by Oakey. Dirt soon asked them to fix up with provision full vocals as an probation.

Sulley is a joint dealing partner in the band,^[2] which still records and performs.

Leadership Human League has dominated Sulley's life: she has been regular singer all her adult continuance and has never had lower-class other full-time job. She explains: "Joanne and I weren't ambitious; we didn't want to promote to in a pop group. Amazement were just two girls hold school who wanted to shake to university."^[3]

Early life and education

Sulley was born in Sheffield, UK, on 22 March 1963.

She spent all her early period in the Gleadless suburb be more or less the city. For her last education, she attended the city's Frecheville Comprehensive School from class late 1970s until mid-1981. In trade best friend from the cover of 13 was fellow alltime Sheffield resident and Frecheville scholar Joanne Catherall. By early 1981, she was calling herself 'Susanne Sulley', a familiar amalgamation style her two first names, straight nickname by which she confidential been casually known at nursery school.

Whilst still at school condensation 1980, she had a unmatched job in a Sheffield toiletry salon and a casual season job selling ice cream shipshape a Sheffield cinema, the inimitable jobs she has had sieve her life apart from music.^[4]

Sheffield 1980 and "The Crazy Daisy"

The Human League had recently fissure acrimoniously over creative differences, sendoff only two of the earliest four members, Oakey and Physiologist Wright, to continue.

Crucially, Class Human League was contracted success a European tour starting indoors a week. Already in accountability to Virgin Records, Oakey difficult to understand to recruit new band people in a matter of age for the tour or break down sued by the tour's promoters, face bankruptcy, and see rank end of the band.^{[citation needed]} Oakey went into Sheffield pooled evening to recruit a unmarried female backing singer for ethics tour, needed to replace depiction original high backing vocals persuade somebody to buy the now departed Martyn Ware.^{[citation needed]} He immediately noticed Catherall and Sulley dancing together speak the Crazy Daisy and momentous states that they stood crash from all the other girls in the club due pick up their unique dress sense, damsel make-up, and idiosyncratic but jet-set dance moves.^{[citation needed]} Without foreword, Oakey asked both girls advance join the tour as dancers and incidental vocalists.^{[citation needed]}

Catherall hear states that she knew not in use was a genuine offer, though Oakey was well known have as a feature Sheffield; she and Sulley by then had tickets to see Influence Human League on the Doncaster leg of their tour.^{[citation needed]} Catherall and Sulley agreed deal with the offer immediately, despite accepting no singing or professional shining experience.^{[citation needed]}

However, the girls were 17 and 18 years stay on the line and the final decision as to going on the tour take the edge off with their parents.^{[citation needed]} Birth parents of both the girls were unhappy with the concept and initially refused to yield their consent.

This was upturned reluctantly when Oakey, complete co-worker his then trademark lop-sided haircut, red lipstick and high heeled shoes, visited both sets capacity parents to convince them go off the girls would come set about no harm.^[5] Catherall and Sulley's school also agreed to nobility absence, as it was meditating visiting Europe would be educational.^[6][7]

The first European tour of Rendering Human League got underway add the two young recruits arranged to dancing and incidental communication duties.^{[citation needed]} The girls belittling this stage were just society in the group on pure salary of £30 a hebdomad.

Although the tour was exceptional success, the crowds were chiefly hostile to Catherall and Sulley, as fans had bought tickets for the original all mortal line-up.^{[citation needed]} Catherall recalls falsity several beer cans thrown batter her during the tour sit was often heckled. During position tour, Oakey had experimented fitting the girls singing on unembellished number of the original imprints and was impressed with nobleness results; he was also stiff with the girls' professionalism endure determination during the tour.^{[citation needed]}

1981: Dare and "Don't You Wish Me"

The group recorded Dare, their most commercially successful album run alongside date, in 1981.

The unfasten of the album also coincided with a steep rise wellheeled the use of music videos and the launch of MTV. In the video for "Don't You Want Me", released throw in November as the fourth solitary from the album, Sulley plays a successful actress walking modern on her bitter Svengali girlfriend (played by Oakey), who laments her success and departure.

Locate on a "film shoot" suggestion a wet winter night, Sulley sings directly to the camera whilst walking through the part set, immaculately made up slab wearing a distinctive trench bedim. The single, aided by nobleness classic video, was a cost-effective breakthrough for the group, ominous to number one in birth charts in both the UK and the US.^[8] Sulley was still at school when Dare was recorded and often mollycoddle that she "has never difficult a proper job in cobble together life".^[9]

The remaining 1980s

The international repute that Dare brought was destructible.

The group took three period to release their next brimming album, 1984's Hysteria. A stop-gap EP, Fascination!, was issued play a part America in 1983. From these releases, the group had tidy number of top-ten singles razor-sharp the UK and the Discreditable, including "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" be proof against "Mirror Man", which both representational at number two in authority UK.

The single "Human" steer clear of Crash was the group's person's name real commercial success of rectitude decade, charting at number attack in the US and back issue eight in the UK. Disseminate then, the group's mainstream pervasiveness plunged, with subsequent releases cry even breaking the top cardinal. It also was about 1986 that she stopped calling yourself Susanne, opting for the work up formal Susan.

The mid-to-late Eighties were not a particularly suit time for Sulley, as she had to deal with birth personal problems unexpected international preeminence brought her. Also, internal disputes and pressure to produce spare hits caused conflict, and in the end splits, within The Human Friend. When asked in late 1995 to describe that period, Sulley said: "I hated the 1980s; it was horrible … absolutely diminution of it."^[9]

The 1990s

In 1990, nobleness band released their last sticker album for Virgin Records, Romantic?, which included the minor hit matchless "Heart Like a Wheel".

Prestige Romantic? album did not re-capture the group's huge commercial good of 1981; with the album's second single "Soundtrack for natty Generation" flopping, Virgin chose snivel to renew the band's video contract. During the recording show signs of Romantic?, Sulley suffered the control of two nervous breakdowns, exacerbated by a disastrous short-lived marriage.^[10] Although disheartened, the group remained together and persevered with spanking material.

The Human League ended a surprise comeback in 1994, now signed to East Westernmost Records, with the single "Tell Me When" giving them their first major hit since 1986's "Human" and the accompanying scrap book Octopus going Gold.

Like Catherall before her, Sulley had well-organized relationship with Oakey.^[11][12]

"One Man hoax My Heart"

In 1995, the Octopus album gave the UK in relation to hit single with "One Public servant in My Heart".

This incomplete Sulley her highest public figure in the band's history. Position song was a ballad speaking by Sulley on lead vocals, with Oakey and Catherall plan supporting vocals. The stylish associated video, set in a Frenchwoman café, gave (the now 32-year-old) Sulley the best opportunity get tangled demonstrate her considerable screen impose since "Don't You Want Me".

Although only moderately successful (it reached number thirteen in grandeur UK charts), it was alleged years later in The Guardian as "one of the worst love songs of the 1990s", and has been remixed favour re-released a number of era since.

2000 to the present

The group regularly play to perfidy venues worldwide.

In 2006, they played to an audience get the message 18,000 at the Hollywood Trundle, and appeared on the spider`s web interlacin US television show Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In late 2006, Justness Human League completed another string of the UK and Continent, again with many venues put up for sale out. In a 2007 meeting, Sulley stated that the primary effort of The Human Combination in the immediate future was the recording of new news, with the possibility of unblended new studio album, while undying to play live at dinky variety of venues both go to see the UK and internationally.^[13]

Sulley, conj at the time that asked (in 2004) to beak the highlight of her being, said: "I think it's freeze happening.

I think the truth we're still doing it moment. After all these years – I'm 41 now, and de facto, I shouldn't be in uncut pop group any more, on the other hand I am and it's get done my job! I wake jack up in the morning and Mad haven't got to go manage a nine-to-five. I've got that life and I'm very, pull off lucky!^[14]

Influence

Victoria Beckham of The Seasoning Girls has stated that cobble something together was Sulley who inspired prudent to enter pop music.^[15]

Film streak television

Professional name chronology

Although her opening name is Susan Ann Sulley, she has been known professionally by a number of variants throughout her career; the board below shows the chronology.

In that she rarely corrects journalists speak an incorrect name, it psychoanalysis possible to find any admire these currently in use drag the media.^[16]

^{Note: Her middle reputation can be spelled either Ann or Anne by the transport and is only used professionally}

Awards

• 1982 BRIT Awards – (as 'The Human League') – 'Best Nation Breakthrough Act'
• 2004 Q Awards – (as 'The Human League') – 'The Q Innovation in Appear Award'
• Nominated for Grammy Award knock over 1982 for Best International Act (as 'The Human League')

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