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Date of Birth
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27-September-1947
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Place of Birth
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Dunfermline
(United Kingdom, Fife, Scotland)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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Barbara Ruth Dickson, Barbara Ruth Dickson, OBE
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Profession
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Musician, Presenter, Singer-songwriter, Actor, Singer
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Barbara Ruth Dickson, OBE is a Scottish singer whose hits include "I Know Him So Well" and "January February". Dickson has placed fifteen albums in the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date, and had a number of hit singles, including four which reached the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. 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.
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. On TV she starred as Anita Braithwaite in Band of Gold.
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