- Beverley Craven is a British singer-songwriter and pianist who achieved a relatively brief period of fame with her eponymous 1991 album, which reached number three and spent a year on the album chart, and its single "Promise Me", a beautiful love ballad which also reached number three, became an instant classic and a popular staple of radio playlists and romantic compilation albums.
Craven was from a musical background. Her mother played classical violin and Craven started playing piano at the age of seven. She attended art college, performed in bands and got her break when she became a backing vocalist for the legendary soul singer Bobby Womack. She was subsequently signed to a recording contract.
"Promise Me" was to be Craven's only top 30 single. Her next album, Love Scenes, charted highly at number four but didn't recapture the success of her debut and only stayed on the chart for 13 weeks. Her third album was her final album to chart to date, reaching number 46. In total, Craven has had six UK hit singles, four which reached the top 40.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseColin Campsie(December 1994 - 2011) (divorced, 3 children)
- Winner of the 1992 Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act.
- Born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to British parents. Her father was working there for Kodak at the time. The family returned to Britain when Craven was two.
- Was asked to write a few songs specifically for films: "Legendary Love" for First Knight (1995), "I Miss You" for The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) and "We Found a Place" for The Theory of Flight (1998). All of them were rejected however, and she eventually released them in her studio albums, the former in her album "Close to Home" (2009, re-titled " Everlasting Love"), and the last two in her album "Mixed Emotions" (1999).
- I write from personal experience.
- Songwriting's my therapy.
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