SHEENA Easton shot to fame in the first British reality TV show The Big Time: Pop Singer in 1980 at the age of 20, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI.
Her debut singles that year, Modern Girl and 9 to 5, entered into the UK top ten, making her the first UK female artist to appear twice in the same top ten since Ruby Murray.
She also topped the US Hot 100 – only the third female solo artist to achieve this following Petula Clark and Lulu.
The Bellshill-born singer became a household name in Britain thanks to further hits such as the Oscar-nominated theme song to the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.
She emigrated to the US in the early 1980s where she became a two-times Grammy Award winner, and an American citizen in 1992. She has received five US Gold albums and one US Platinum album. Easton has recorded 16 studio albums, released 45 singles and had 14 US Top 40 singles, and seven US top tens.
Easton also carved out a career as an actress, appearing in Miami Vice and played Rizzo in Grease on Broadway.
She duetted with Prince on his 1987 hit U Got The Look and the controversial single Sugar Walls, later blasted by campaigners for its sexually suggestive lyrics.
Through the 1990s she remained one of the highest earning British women and was once said to be worth £40m. She has sold more than 20 million records worldwide.
Now 55, four-times married singer has two children she adopted as a single mother, and lives in a suburb of Las Vegas.
She still tours the US and performs in Vegas casinos, singing hits such as Modern Girl and 9 to 5.
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