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Toyah (born Toyah Ann Willcox on 18 May 1958 in King’s Heath, Birmingham, England) is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Toyah has had 13 Top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows, including Brum, Watchdog and Songs of Praise.
She attended Edgbaston C of E College where she gained a GCE pass in music and trained as an actress at the Old Rep Drama School in her home town of Birmingham. Toyah’s father ran successful joinery businesses.
She first became well-known during the punk rock era, her appearances in Derek Jarman’s 1977 film Jubilee and 1979’s Who album-inspired Quadrophenia launching her as a provocative and anti-establishment figure, an image she eventually abandoned.| |Fronting a band known as Toyah, her singing career was slow to take off and the band released six singles in the UK before finally hitting the charts in 1981, with “It’s A Mystery” and “I Want To Be Free”. These singles were also successful on an international level. In 1982, she was voted Best Female Singer at the British Rock and Pop Awards — since restyled as The BRIT Awards,...
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Top 10 Toyah Songs
I Want to Be Free
It's a Mystery
Thunder in the Mountains
Ieya
Danced
Good Morning Universe
Brave New World
Neon Womb
Obsolete
Jungles of Jupiter
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Top 10 Toyah Albums
Anthem
Best Of Toyah
The Changeling
Sheep Farming in Barnet
The Blue Meaning
Live & More
In the court of the crimson queen
The Best Of Toyah
minx
Love Is the Law
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