Blair Booth

RECORDING ARTIST & PERFORMER
Blair Booth has had a highly eclectic and successful music career that spans over two decades and includes 10 albums and 8 hit singles and has collaborated, co-written, and produced and performed with some of the UK's finest talent.
Having been brought up in a household of an emeritus award, musician-conductor father, she was taught piano at age 7 and started performing piano recitals of Grieg and Chopin by the age of 12. By the age of 16 Blair began singing in the notorious gambling belt casinos of Reno, Nevada, USA. Not adverse to travel, she made her way at the age of 19, to the UK to begin her career.
Blair co-wrote, arranged, and performed with Terry Hall formerly of The Specials, Fun Boy 3 and The Colourfield. The band called 'Terry, Blair & Anouchka' recorded 'Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes' for Chrysalis Records. Two singles 'Missing' and 'Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes' were released and two video promos made one featuring Jerry Sadowitz!
MISSING - Terry, Blair & Anouchka
During the 90's Blair was a busy lady. Not only was she working for Terry Hall, but also became a member of The Associates working with Billy MacKenzie. Consequently 2 albums were made, 'Wild & Lonely' and Outernational for CIRCA Records. Never far from session work as a singer she dueted with Marc Almond on 'Madame de la Luna' on his 'Enchanted' album for EMI Records, sung vocals on the Johnny Thunders and Patti Palladin's classic 'Copy Cats' album with Chrissie Hynde and Jayne County! Oh, and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin covered 'Heaven Know's' which was originally sung by Blair. Funny, Blair also collaborated with Robert's later girlfriend Asian songstress Najma Akhtar. The list does go on! Did I forget to mention Blair was also on the cover of I-D Magazine?
Blair's first major signing was to Sony Records Columbia division with Nick Heyward, (Blair met Nick at Roundhouse studios in Camden and hit it off after a visit to a near by pub!) They recorded 'From Monday to Sunday'. During the making of this album, Blair wrote and recorded a poignant track entitled 'The Usual', which was covered by Grethe Svensen, and appears on her album 'Your Beauty' BMG Records.
Blair is probably best known as the front woman and creator/producer of Oui 3. Her idea was to marry 60’s psychedelia with 90’s political sensibility set to cool hip hop grooves which were to draw parallels with the events of the sixties with that of the 90’s.Oui 3 were signed by MCA Records in 1992 and recorded their first album 'Oui Love You'. The first single released was, 'For What It’s Worth' which hit the charts and our name and faces began to be seen and heard on TV show’s like Channel 4's 'The Word', ITV's, 'BPM' . Indeed, 'For What it's Worth' would have been a bigger hit, had MCA released a CD single format that didnt exceed the BPI rules on track lengths. Guess Oui 3 gave too much value for money! The single entered the album charts at 56! Our second single, 'Break From The Old Routine' entered the top 20 and we performed on the now legendary 'Top Of The Pops'. In total Oui 3 had 5 hit singles.
OUI 3 - For What It's Worth
Oui 3 grew to a band of nine, touring extensively the UK and Europe gaining an exceptional fan base. Many will remember our gigs with Jamiroquai and our gigs at Glastonbury and Pheonix Festivals.
'Oui Love You' hit the top 40 and included many wonderful contributions by great artists like Jah Wobble, Galliano, Brand New Heavies, Little Louie Vega. Remixers include Dub Master, Augustus Pablo, Youth, Mark Stent, Robin Handcock.
Universal Records have released Oui 3 'The Collection' which includes all the hits from 'Oui Love You' and 9 tracks from 'THREEDOM'. An album not to be missed!
OUI 3 is available from:
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OUI 3 TV & Video Performances
Terry Blair & Anouchka plus The Associates
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