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Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Moira Lambert is a British singer and recording artist.
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She has collaborated with Saint Etienne on the Neil Young cover "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (which went Top 40 in the UK and to No 1 in the US Hot Dance charts).
Moira began singing, playing acoustic guitar and song-writing as a child in Africa, largely influenced by the Celtic folk songs her parents taught her. While at school in the UK she became a fan of the British indie scene, enjoying acts like The Smiths and The Cure, later exploring vintage records by artists like Sandy Denny, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.
Lambert has studied at the Conservatory of Music, playing in coffee bars and worked with Spanish cellist, pianist and composer Dan Anies, who co-wrote two of the songs on Moira’s first solo album 'Coming Up Roses' (released October 2006).
Polygram gave her a publishing deal and UK independent label Big Cat Records signed Moira as a teenager. She stayed there, touring the UK with Lush and Slowdive and Europe with label mates Jeff Buckley and Heather Nova (whose first recording Moira contributed backing vocals to) until the label was bought out by V2 Records in 1996.
After co-writing the top 20 UK chart hit, "Skin on Skin", with Paul Oakenfold for his Grace project, Moira formed Ova, releasing a 3 track single, Universal Audio on UK independent label Global Warming. Since Ova broke up in January 2000, Moira has collaborated with Freeloader and Data, both UK electronica acts in the vein of trip hop, and contributed backing vocals to Tram’s album, A Kind of Closure, released on UK’s Jet Set Records.
Moira had a son, Calum, in June 1999, and a daughter, Isobel, in June 2002. In the year of her daughter's birth, she, along with her family, relocated to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Following the release of her first solo album in 2006, Moira wrote and performed the theme music for a Chum Television documentary 'Survival of the Fittest: Stories from the West Coast Trail' with Corwin Fox. She released the album 'Climbing Mountains In The Night' in 2008.
She then collaborated on an album of club mixes with composer Luke Parkin, also produced by Fox. Moira’s music is eclectic ranging from folky to stylized pop.
Her daughter would like to add that she has only now gotten around to reading this and, wow, there's a lot of information missing here. It's making her think about how much Wikipedia articles don't usually tell you about people - for example, whether or not the subject of the article makes a good apple and blackberry pie (for the sake of normality, she won't tell you that in this article either).