Julia Fordham

Born in Portsmouth, England on August 10, 1962, versatile British singer/songwriter Julia Fordham began her career as a backing vocalist for 1980s pop stars like Kim Wilde and Mari Wilson. She released her first single, “Friends”, in 1983 but spent most of the ‘80s doing session work. In the late ‘80s, she signed with Circa Records and released her self-titled debut album in 1988. The album, which reached Number 20 in the UK and Number 118 in the U.S., contained the hit singles “Happy Ever After”, “The Comfort of Strangers”, and “Where Does the Time Go?”. Her second album, Porcelain (1989), fared even better and remains her highest charting album in the U.S. and UK. 1991’s Swept was her third successful album and featured the Top 40 hit “(Love Moves In) Mysterious Ways”. Fordham continued to record for Circa/Virgin until 1998 when she released The Julia Fordham Collection. Fordham began to stretch her musical boundaries, exploring new avenues and taking more chances. In 2010, she recorded the album Usual Suspects with actor/pianist Paul Reiser and they both set off on a tour together. Her next album, Under the Rainbow (2013), found her re-visiting some of her older songs and arranging them for vocal and piano. The album included “Skipping Under the Rainbow”. In 2018, she collaborated with fellow British vocalists Judie Tzuke and Beverley Craven and released the album Woman To Woman. In 2019, she released the album Magic.