Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE (born January 8, 1937 in Cardiff, Wales), is a Welsh singer, perhaps best-known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. Life and career Birth to 1960 Bassey was born on 8 January 1937 at 182 Bute Street, Tiger Bay, Cardiff to a Nigerian fireman,[LINK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/074754090X] [1] while her mother came from Yorkshire. She grew up in the notorious dockside district of Tiger Bay, Cardiff, as the youngest of seven children. Her father died when she was two years old. After leaving Moorland School at the age of fifteen, Shirley first found employment packing at a local factory, while singing in local pubs and clubs in the evenings and weekends. In 1953, she signed up for the

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