Barbara Dickson

Barbara Dickson

Barbara Ruth Dickson OBE is a Scottish singer. Her hits include \”I Know Him So Well\”, \”Answer Me\” and \”January February\”. She is also a two-time Olivier Award-winning actress, with roles including Viv Nicholson in the musical Spend Spend Spend.

About Barbara Dickson in brief

Summary Barbara DicksonBarbara Ruth Dickson OBE is a Scottish singer whose hits include \”I Know Him So Well\”, \”Answer Me\” and \”January February\”. She is also a two-time Olivier Award-winning actress, with roles including Viv Nicholson in the musical Spend Spend Spend, and she was the original Mrs. Johnstone in Willy Russell’s long-running musical Blood Brothers. The Scotsman newspaper has described her as Scotland’s best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976. Dickson’s singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in 1964. Her first commercial recording was in 1968. She became a well-known face on the British folk circuit of the late 1960s and early 1970s, but changed her career course after meeting WillyRussell.

She starred as Anita Braithwaite in Band of Gold. In 1984, Dickson starred in her own television special for BBC2, The Missing World, in which she travels around Scotland. During 1990s Dickson appeared in various television dramas, including Taggart, The Band of gold, and The World of Missing World. Starting in 1983 Dickson began appearing in musical interludes for the BBC Scotland comedy show, Scotch Wry. She has also appeared in musicals and TV specials, including the BBC series, Scotland’s Got Talent, and the ITV series, The Great British Bodies. She is married to Scottish singer-songwriter and actor, David Walliams, and has three children.