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| name = Nicky Stevens | image = Nicky Stevens.jpg | caption = Nicky Stevens in 1991 | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Helen Thomas | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1949|12|3}} |birth_place =Carmarthen, Wales | death_date = | origin = | instrument = Vocals, piano | genre = Pop music | occupation = Singer | years_active = 1967–present | label = Pye, EMI, Dawn, Warwick | website = }} Nicky Stevens (born Helen Thomas in Carmarthen, Wales, 3 December 1949)[1] is a singer, famous as a member of pop group Brotherhood of Man. She is the only Welsh person to have won the Eurovision Song Contest. Early careerNicky Stevens began singing at an early age. At the age of four she was singing in a chapel in Carmarthen, and following lessons eventually joined the Hywel Girls Choir. She also studied classical music as a singer and pianist.[2] At the age of 16 she held a residency in Swansea's Townsman nightclub.[1] During this period she also took on a job as a telephone operator. This lasted for nine months and is the only job she has ever had outside the entertainment business.[3] She later toured the Continent as a singer, performing in night clubs. Following this she went on to tour South Africa as well as clubs around the UK.[4] One of her early appointments was as a supporting act to Little and Large in 1970. Stevens worked mainly performing popular songs and found it a struggle at first to adapt her vocals from her classical roots. Brotherhood of ManIn 1972, while working as a session singer, Stevens came to the attention of Tony Hiller, who was looking to recruit new members for his group Brotherhood of Man. Hiller was manager and songwriter for the group, but they had recently disbanded and keen to keep the name alive, which was still in demand for television work, he recruited Stevens alongside Martin Lee and Lee Sheriden. In 1973, signed to Deram Records, they released their first single, "Happy Ever After". Later in the year another female singer was added to the group, Sandra Stevens and as a four-piece, Brotherhood of Man went on to enjoy great success around the world. Scoring their first hit in 1974 and first No.1 the year after, the group entered and won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me".[5][6][7] To date, she is the only Welsh person to win Eurovision. For the next three years, the group regularly hit the chart and scored two more No.1 singles in the UK, "Angelo" and "Figaro".[8][9] In addition to singing, Stevens is an amateur pianist, and performed the piano accompaniment to an otherwise a cappella recording of "Send in the Clowns" in 1978, which was featured on the band's Twenty Greatest album. In 1988, while still with the group, Stevens recorded some songs with Dutch singer Albert West. In the early 1990s she also recorded some songs with British rock band Aslan{{refn|group=note|name=first|Not to be confused with the Irish rock band of the same name.}} as the lead singer. Stevens still performs with Brotherhood of Man today in its original line-up, taking in UK tours and television appearances throughout Europe.[10] In November 2013, Stevens was the subject of a documentary Time of Your Life on ITV Wales talking about her career and early life growing up in a musical environment in Camarthen.[11] Personal lifeIn June 1976 Stevens, who lived in Watford at the time married the group's guitarist, Alan Johnson at the Watford Register Office.[12] They have since divorced.[13] In the 1990s, Stevens lived in Sturminster Marshall, but as of 2011 lives in Corfe Mullen, both in Dorset.[2] Since moving to Dorset, Stevens has begun appearing in Christmas pantomimes including Cinderella at Weymouth Pavilion in 2013 and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Tivoli, Wimborne in 2014.[14][15] References1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Wales' only Eurovision winner still believes in the Brotherhood of Man|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/music/wales-only-eurovision-winner-still-6287484|work=Wales Online|accessdate=12 November 2013}} 2. ^1 This is Dorset, 28 October 2011 3. ^Brotherhood of Man – BBC Breakfast News interview, 24 May 2008 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/juniortvtimes2006/77No34/1977_no34_brotherhood1.htm |title=1977 feature in Look-in Magazine|author=Look-In 1977 No.34 (page 15) |accessdate=29 December 2008 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/juniortvtimes2006/77No34/1977_no34_brotherhood1.htm&date=2009-10-26+01:05:30|archivedate=26 October 2009}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685/chartid=6811/ |title=Dutch charts – "Lady", 1974 |author=Radio538, Netherlands |accessdate=2 December 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311024023/http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id%3D44685/chartid%3D6811 |archivedate=11 March 2009 |df=dmy-all }} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/sunra/953/charts.html |title=Brotherhood of Man World Chart history |author=Brotherhood of Man Dutch website |accessdate=26 September 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050508140041/http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/sunra/953/charts.html |archivedate=8 May 2005 |df=dmy-all }} 7. ^The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History. O'Connor, John Kennedy. Carlton Books 2007 {{ISBN|978-1-84442-994-3}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=19770820|title="Angelo" at No.1|author=Chartstats|accessdate=4 October 2008|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120730101057/http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=19770820|archivedate=30 July 2012|deadurl=yes|df=dmy-all}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=19780211|title="Figaro" at No.1|author=Chartstats|accessdate=4 October 2008|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120731073519/http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=19780211|archivedate=31 July 2012|deadurl=yes|df=dmy-all}} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.abrq49.hemscott.net/tours.htm |title= Concert details|author=Official website|accessdate=15 August 2008 }} 11. ^ITV Wales – Time of Your Life, 13 November 2013 12. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/juniortvtimes2006/77No34/1977_no34_brotherhood3.htm |title=1977 Brotherhood of Man feature |author=Look-In 1977 No.34 (page 18)|accessdate=29 December 2008 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/juniortvtimes2006/77No34/1977_no34_brotherhood3.htm&date=2009-10-26+01:05:33|archivedate=26 October 2009}} 13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/interviews/article.html?in_article_id=325&in_page_id=11 |title=Lee Sheriden interview |author=Metro|accessdate=16 December 2008 }} 14. ^{{cite web|title=CINDERELLA, Weymouth Pavilion|url=http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/leisure/reviews/10877254.CINDERELLA__Weymouth_Pavilion/|publisher=Dorset Echo|accessdate=16 January 2015}} 15. ^{{cite web|title=Wimborne Minster: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs|url=http://englandevents.co.uk/wimborne-minster-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs/67767|publisher=englandevents.co.uk|accessdate=16 January 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925110032/http://englandevents.co.uk/wimborne-minster-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs/67767|archivedate=25 September 2015|df=dmy-all}} Notes{{reflist|group=note}}{{s-start}}{{s-ach}}{{succession box |before={{flagicon|Netherlands}} Teach-In title=Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest | years=1976 after={{flagicon|France}} Marie Myriam }}{{succession box | before=The Shadows title=UK in the Eurovision Song Contest | years=1976 after=Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran }}{{s-end}}{{Brotherhood of Man}}{{List of Eurovision Song Contest winners}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Nicky}} 8 : 1951 births|Living people|Welsh pop singers|Welsh female singers|People from Carmarthen|British Eurovision Song Contest entrants|Eurovision Song Contest winners|Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1976 |
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