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Pauline Black
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Pauline Black
Homepage
https://theselecter.net/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1953-10-23,Romford, Essex, England, UK
Gender
Female
Biography
Belinda Magnus OBE DL (born 23 October 1953), better known as Pauline Black , is an English singer, actress and author. In a music career spanning over 40 years, Black came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the 2 Tone ska revival band the Selecter, which released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and the 1980s, including "On My Radio", "Three Minute Hero", "Missing Words" and "The Whisper". Rolling Stone said of Black "Hands down, Pauline Black possessed the best voice that ever graced a 2-Tone release. Blessed with a bewitching soprano and dramatic panache, Black's voice reached plateaus that made every other musical detail sound like part of a backdrop painted just to set the stage for her entrance." Black has also been an actress, with roles in films and television. Belinda Magnus was born on 23 October 1953, in Romford, Essex, England, to an Anglo-Jewish teenage mother and Nigerian father. She was adopted by a white middle-aged couple and given the name Pauline Vickers. Her biological father, Gordon Adenle, had come to London from Nigeria to study engineering and was a Yoruba omoba (or prince). Black was unaware of her Jewish heritage until the age of 42 when she traced her birth mother. Black studied science at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) in the early 1970s before training as a radiographer in Coventry. Upon completion of her studies she worked for the NHS for five years before she entered the music industry. Black was a founding member of two-tone ska band The Selecter who were formed in Coventry in 1979. The Selecter, along with the Specials and Madness, are credited with starting the ska revival movement. She adopted a stage name in order to conceal her involvement in the band from her employer, choosing the surname Black partly in reaction to her upbringing - her adoptive family had always referred to her as "coloured" rather than black. The Selecter split up in 1982 but have sporadically reformed since 1994. After the Selecter had split up, Black was co-host, with Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog, of the children's television quiz show, Hold Tight. She developed an acting career in television and theatre, appearing in dramas such as The Vice, The Bill, Hearts and Minds and Two Thousand Acres of Sky. Black appeared in the soap opera Hollyoaks for four episodes as Diane Valentine, until her character was killed off. She won the 1991 Time Out award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in the play All or Nothing at All. She also starred alongside Christopher Lee in the horror film Funny Man. In 2010, she appeared in a series 24 episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, presented by Robert Webb, in the Identity Parade round.

Filmography

7.778

Dance Craze
1981-02-10

Punk and Its Aftershocks

6.8

Punk and Its Aftershocks
1980-05-10

5

Skid Kids
1953-02-01

2 Tone: The Sound of Coventry

7.8

2 Tone: The Sound of Coventry
2021-09-30

Two Tone Britain

4.9

Two Tone Britain
2004-11-29

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony

0

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony
2022-08-08

Record On: The Specials - A Message to You

7.5

Record On: The Specials - A Message to You
2024-03-19

Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)

7

Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)
1980-03-12

The Story of Skinhead

8

The Story of Skinhead
2016-10-14

4.765

Funny Man
1994-06-10

Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records

6.905

Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records
2018-10-12

6.094

White Riot
2020-04-03

Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World

4.5

Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World
2011-11-23

Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain

0

Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain
2021-06-10

Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story

6.8

Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
2024-10-12

Sounds Like It's Christmas with Ken Bruce

0

Sounds Like It's Christmas with Ken Bruce
2024-12-21

blur: To the End

7.368

blur: To the End
2024-07-19

The Selecter: Live at the Roundhouse

0

The Selecter: Live at the Roundhouse
2018-05-23

Hearts and Minds

7.8

Hearts and Minds
1995-02-16

7.8

Punk
2019-03-11

0

Riverside
1982-01-04

8

Grownups
2006-05-07

5.625

The Vice
1999-01-04

Out of the Blue

8

Out of the Blue
1995-05-23

0

Shrinks
1991-02-13