Sheena Easton (natural Sheena Shirley Orr 27 April 1959) is a pop singer born in Bellshill, Scotland. Sheena became notable for existence a focus of the United Kingdom television programme The Big Time, a late-1970s reality TV series which recorded her attempts to benefit the record contract & had her the treat by using EMI Records.

Her right-known early musical act is probably a Academy Award-nominated James Bond movie theme "For Your Eyes Only", and "Morning Train" (which was originally called "9 to 5" in its British release but was renamed for its North American issue to avoid confusion with the Dolly Parton song "9 to 5"). "Morning Train" was her exclusively #1 hit in the U.S. & topped two a Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts in Billboard magazine. In the mid-1980s, she began collaborating sustaining Prince and made an Olivia Newton-John-like transformation into a sexy dance-pop siren & was successful by having a songs "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" (1983), "Strut" (1984), and her 1987 duet with Prince, "U Got The Look".

Her move toward the sexier image by owning "Strut" received mixed responses from either her strongest fans, & she was as well one of a number 1 creative person to have a music video banned because of its lyrics rather than its imagination, while a select few broadcasters refused to play a sexually risqué "Sugar Walls", which had been written for her by Prince (using the pseudonym Alexander Nevermind). "Sugar Walls" was besides known as by Tipper Gore of the Parents' Music Resource Council as one of the "Filthy Fifteen", the names of songs deemed indecent because of their lyrics, alongside Prince's have "Darling Nikki". Despite this arguing, a album A Private Heaven (which included "Strut" & "Sugar Walls") became her large vendor. "Sugar Walls" as well mass produced a top troika on the R&B singles chart. Around this period she as well recorded the Grammy-winning Spanish-language album, Todo Me Recuerda a Ti ("Everything Reminds Me of You") & got the country music hit with "We've Got Tonight", a duet with Kenny Rogers (a remake of a 1978 Bob Seger song that reached the top 10 on the country, pop and AC charts). Profits in the popular, grown contemporary, R&B, country and Latin fields confirmed Sheena as one of the most versatile vocalists of the 1980s.

Easton's watch-as much as The Personal Heaven, entitled Do You, standard unfortunate reviews & dissatisfactory sales. Release of the farther watch-higher album, 1987's There is no Healthy However the Heart was delayed due to the contractural condition that resulted inside Easton changing record corporations from either EMI America to MCA. fallowing a album was eventually freed (a year after a lead lone, "Eternity", was issued), it sank while forgoing a trace & is considered the rarest of Easton's domesticated album releases.

Inside November of 1987 Sheena made her number 1 spectacular acting appearance on the television programme Miami Vice, playing the singer known as Caitlin Davies, whom Sonny Crockett was assigned to protect until she made the court appearance. Cub & Caitlin were married per prevent of a episode, the number 1 of 5 for Easton until her character was exterminate. Per spring of 1988 the latest installment of the Miami Vice soundtrack was released, & featured a song "Follow My Rainbow", which Sheena sang on her tragical survive appearance, moments prior to her character was shot to dying. A song as well appeared in her next album The Lover In Me, a gold-selling disc freed a charted fall that put Easton back on the stock and index charts.

A title song from either "The Lover In Me," reached #2 on the Hot 100 & became her large hit since "Morning Train". Inside 1991, What Comes Naturally became the survive of Sheena's albums to chart in the U.S.; a title song was too her go top Forty sole, reaching #19, & a select few of her recent albums develop only been available in the Far East or Europe (except for the critically acclaimed No Strings & Our Cherie). She recently enjoyed a bit of profits by using an album entitled Fabulous and has also be the minor gay icon.

Sheena continued acting around Us, starring around Broadway revivals of Man Of La Mancha (1992) and Grease (1996). Between 1994 and 1996, she played several characters around Gargoyles a animated series, including Lady Finella & the Banshie. Around 1999, she voice-acted a half-demon character, Annah-of-a-Shadows, in the computer game Planescape: Torment. Since 2000 Sheenthe has appeared within a Broadway-style indicate in Las Vegas. She populates there by using her 2 adoptive babies.

When existence boo-ed & bottled offstage at the Glasgow music festival in the late Lxxx's, Eastin nevermore played on stage in the UK.

Around June 1998, her previous secondary school Bellshill Academy celebrated its centenary. Eastin signed the tribute to the school for its favorite occasion which is however on display in the independent building. She was the pupil there from either 1971 - 1977.

the popular story at the school was that there utilized to exist as a school desk that Easton experienced graffito'd her so title "Sheena Orr" which was of occasionally source of pride to the teacher whose schoolroom it belonged to. Upon giving from either a summertime holiday break a total of years late, a teacher was dismayed to caltogether for that a article of furniture experienced all been replaced & the signature strewn desk got no more.

Around April & Could 2004, Easton visited Australia and featured in the fruity TV commercial message for Connex in Melbourne. The total of unrealistically happy rider within an unrealistically underpatronised morning train were singing "9 to 5". Sheena boarded a train at Burnley Station, and screamed. A rider paused around awe, so went in singing.

In October 31, 2004, Sheena was inducted into a Casino Legends Hall of Fame at a Tropicana Resort & Casino along with fellow Las Vegas legends Debbie Reynolds, Ben Vereen, Patti Page, Jack Jones and Tempest Storm.

Within January 2005 Sheena appeared in the television series [http://www.ionline.tv/shows/yngblad/ Young Blades].

Albums

Sheena Easton (1981) You Could Have Been With Me (1981) Madness, Money & Music (1982) Best Kept Secret (1983) Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) - Spanish language release A Private Heaven (1984) Do You (1985) No Sound But A Heart (1987) The Lover In Me (1988) What Comes Naturally (1991) No Strings (1993) My Cherie (1995) Freedom (1997) Home (1999) Fabulous (2001)