Pauline Black with 'Dancing Mood' in Buenos Aires Oct 3rd 2009
Pauline has just returned from her second visit to South America this year, where she sang as a special guest of Hugo Lobo's 'Dancing Mood' in Buenos Aires with a full string orchestra and chorus @ a televised concert in front of 20,000 people @ 'Dancing Mood 100 Nicetos Festival'. She will return again soon to record an album with Hugo Lobo under the auspices of EMI Publishing Argentina.
Pauline returned to the ska stage in 2009, because she wanted to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 2-Tone movement. Feeling adventurous she kicked off her celebration in March 2009 with a South American tour of Argentina and Brazil, where she performed with Doreen Schaffer of The Skatalites as ‘The Queens of Reggae and Ska’, Brazilian ska band Firebug and Argentinian ska bands, Hugo Lobo's 'Dancing Mood' & 'The Rudeboy Band'.
In April 2009 she joined her long time friends Neville Staple (The Specials) and Ranking Roger (The Beat) as a special guest for the ‘Special Beat’ tour of Dubai and Australia.
In June 2009 she performed with Finnish ska band 'Blastermaster' at two German festivals, headlining the 'Feuerwerks Festival' @ Mainz Kastel & 'This Is Ska' festival in Rosslau.
Catch her performing with Neville Staple Band for the rest of 2009.
Pauline Black & The Special Beat @ The Forum, Sydney, Australia April 2009
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Pauline Black & The Special Beat @ The Forum, Sydney, Australia April 2009
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Pauline Black & The Special Beat @ The Forum, Sydney, Australia April 2009
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Pauline Black & The Special Beat @ The Forum, Sydney, Australia April 2009
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Pauline Black & The Special Beat @ The Forum, Sydney, Australia April 2009
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Pauline Black & The Special Beat @ The Forum, Sydney, Australia April 2009
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Pauline Black, Ranking Roger & Neville Staple being interviewed on a beach in Dubai
3 Minute Hero' with the 'Rudeboy Band' in Buenos Aries 2009
She is currently writing her much anticipated memoirs entitled ‘A Bird's Eye View'’ for publication in 2010 to coincide with the release of a new album @Pigment Of My Imagination' on Vocaphone records.
Pauline Black was the lead singer with legendary 2-TONE group The Selecter and enjoyed a string of hits in the early '80'S, top 5 single 'ON MY RADIO' selling more than 250,000 copies and gaining two gold discs, to mark 100,000 sales of the albums 'TOO MUCH PRESSURE’ and ‘DANCE CRAZE’. The critically acclaimed album ‘CELEBRATE THE BULLET’ followed. In 1982
she left The Selecter (the original band split up soon after), gained her Equity card and diversified into theatre, TV and film acting, TV and radio presentation and writing. She won the Time Out/01 Best Actress Award in 1990 for her portrayal of jazz singer 'Billie Holiday' in a play by acclaimed novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips. She also won the 'Manchester Evening News Best Actress Award' 1993 for 'From The Mississippi Delta' by Dr. Endesha Mae Holland.
The Selecter re-formed in 1991, with a different line-up and regularly toured in U.S.A, Europe and Japan and recorded new material. The band retired from the touring circuit in December 2006.
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE: 2005:
Hands down Pauline Black possessed the best voice that ever graced a 2-Tone release. Blessed with a bewitching soprano and dramatic panache, Blacks voice reached plateaus that made every
other musical detail sound like part of a backdrop painted just to set the stage for her entrance. While The Specials were content to merely jazz up old ska standards, and Madness pleased themselves by playing up the zany angle, The Selecter shuttled through their songs like a band of ska revisionists, with Black rewriting songs with her voice and leaving her
signature in every piercing note. Even if The Specials outsold them, and Madness outlasted them, The Selecter were arguably the best that 2-Tone had to offer.
Back in January 2008, Pauline Black joined soul legends Eddie Floyd & Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, both of whom she worked with during the Soul Britannia Concerts that were broadcast by the BBC from the Barbican Theatre in London in April 2007, on a 30 date ‘THIS IS SOUL
TOUR’ of Britain.
THIS IS SOUL TOUR 2008
Pauline Black presents Soul Britannia concert @ the Barbican, London, 2007
In 2007, Pauline narrated 'Soul Britannia' a critically acclaimed 3 part TV series for BBC; episodes 1 & 2 directed by Jeremy Marre, episode 3 directed by Don Letts and hosted and performed in two televised live concerts from the Barbican on 16th & 23rd Feb 2007, featuring Jane Kay, Carroll Thompson, Carol Grimes, Gonzalez, Average White Band, Madeline Bell, Linda Lewis, Geno Washington, Jimmy James, Eddie Floyd, Eric Burdon & Solomon Burke.
Pauline successfully toured a solo project with The Blue Jazz Trio (drums: Pick Withers ex Dire Straits; double bass: Nigel Portman-Smith, ex Pentangle; keyboards: Dom Pipkin, ex Morcheeba) entitled 'The Very Best of Nina Simone & Billie Holiday' in 2007.
Pauline Black & The Blue Jazz Trio @ Nantwich Jazz Festival 2007
WHAT HAS BEEN SAID:
3 MEN & BLACK: ACOUSTIC
.....Pauline Black has never been given the true credit she deserves. Here The Selecter tunes are great, but the true revelation is the way her resonant voice floats in and out of the non Selecter tracks, giving each a new found warmth and beauty.........Ian Templeton for
Record Collector January 2005
...Black's voice sounds sublime in the stripped down environment, this is overall a successful project. Keep an eye out for live dates. Brett Callwood for Acoustic Magazine
Feb/March 2005
Pauline has also performed with an 'acoustic supergroup' show '3 Men+ Black', which began in 2001 and has had varied line-ups with Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers), Jean Jacques Burnel
(The Stranglers), Bruce Foxton (The Jam), Roddy Radiation (The Specials), Dave Wakeling (The Beat), Nick Welsh (Skaville UK), Rhoda Dakar (The Bodysnatchers),Dave Sharpe (The Alarm) and Eric Faulkner (Bay City Rollers) gracing the stage with Pauline over the intervening years.
Pauline has released two acoustic albums, "Unplugged For The Rudeboy Generation" and "Requiem For A Black Soul" with a raw ska and reggae sound.
Her most recent television acting performance was in ‘Grownups’ BBC3 in 2007 and as 'Diane Valentine', mother of the new black family in 'Hollyoaks' in 2006 (Channel 4).
Pauline is a regular writer, presenter and contributor for BBC Radio 4.
Pauline Black with the English Beat and Lynval Golding in Philadelphia Sept 2006
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The Selecter(original line-up) perform 'on my radio' in 1980
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The Selecter promo video for 'Missing Words' in 1980
I still remember Paris, my darling, in the park, the lake was dappled by the sunset, a seductive exteme, kiss and giddily I fall at your feet, worshipping your very essence. Later we will awake after a night of stormy passion and my boat will slowly sink in the sea of your beauty.
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Hey Pauline Black! Estamos iniciando gira por Baja y California, luego seguiremos en el Jah Fest en DF y aprovechamos para presentarnos en Ecatepec y Toluca, checa los datos en nuestro myspace. Y aprovechando allí también encontrarás el link para que descargues nuestro tema "Noviembre"
