I could cite gushers like this: “The
striking vocals of Angela McCluskey will make you remember the first
time you heard Miles blow his horn or Billie sing the blues.”
(Hits Magazine)
That’s not inaccurate. People bandy phrases like this around,
but let it be known that Angela McCluskey is no less than the real
deal.
Angela hails from Glasgow, Scotland; a lovely, scary town. Scarier
still, she wasn’t exactly encouraged to become a vocalist. “I
used to sing so I could stay up late,” says Angela. “I'd
do 'Summertime' or something and then (my family would) throw me back
in bed. Singing's just not a big deal there, so nobody ever turns
'round and goes, 'You know what? You should sing when you grow up.’"
Nurtured thus, Angela went to London and found work as a publicist
and then in the video department of EMI Records. But her true calling
nagged at her.
"Though I'd sung backup for friends' bands, singing was the
last thing I thought I would do," she says. "And I'd always
wanted to sing - I figured I'd do it when I was 50, sing jazz or
something. But it got overwhelmingly annoying that I wasn't doing
what I wanted to do. I was always making other people's dreams come
true and never really expressing myself. It was easier than doing
my own work.”
So in 1991, Angela headed out to Hollywood.
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