Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE, (born 9 December 1950) is a British[LINK: http://www.houstonpress.com/2000-07-13/music/union-joan/] Houston - Music - Union Joan singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee [LINK: http://www.joanarmatrading.com/] Official Website. Additional achievements include a BA (Hons) degree in History from the Open University, of which she is a trustee Joan has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as best female vocalist and has received an Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.[LINK: http://www.joanarmatrading.com/] Official Website. Early life Joan Armatrading was born in Basseterre, Saint Kitts in the West Indies and moved with her family to Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, in 1957. She began writ

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