Miriam Stockley

She helped form Blush, a short-lived South African disco act consisting of her, Malie Kelly, and guitarist Mike Pilot.

[citation needed] During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Stockley worked as a session singer for the UK songwriting and production trio Stock, Aitken and Waterman and appeared on tracks by Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Sonia.

Alongside fellow session singer Mae McKenna, Stockley is credited with being partly responsible for the distinctive Stock, Aitken and Waterman sound of the 1980s.

[2] Stockley provided backing vocals for the United Kingdom's Eurovision Song Contest entry on several occasions, most notably with Emma in 1990[3] and for Katrina and the Waves when they won in Dublin in 1997.

She has also appeared as a singer in on episode of Our Friends In The North (1996) and on several BBC Schools programmes, most notably Look and Read, and contributed to the soundtrack for the 1997 film One Night Stand.

[6] In December 2006, Stockley contributed as a solo vocalist and as a co-vocalist with Mike Oldfield at the German Night of the Proms tour, consisting of 18 concerts.

[10][12] In June 2009, she, Richard Gannaway and Jay Oliver composed and produced the song "Gaiya Lo Mane" as theme music for the Give Kids the World Foundation.

[13] In February 2011 Arcturian Gate released the AO Music's third album ...and Love Rages on!, where Stockley's voice is joined by children's choral ensembles from Beijing, Tbilisi, Johannesburg, Asheville and Orlando (charted at No.

Stockley singing into a microphone onstage
Stockley at Night of the Proms in 2006