The English-Kittitian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading was born on December 9th, 1950.

Joan Armatrading Wife: Meet Maggie Butler

Maggie Butler is the wife of Joan Armatrading. In the Shetland Islands in 2011, Armatrading married artist Maggie Butler in a civil union. In her private life, Butler is an artist. There is, however, no additional information about her in the media.

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When Armatrading was about 14 years old, she began writing songs by setting her own limericks to music on a piano that her mother had purchased as “furniture.”

Armatrading stopped attending school when she was 15 in order to help her family.

In addition to receiving two BRIT Awards nominations for Best Female Artist, Armatrading has received three Grammy nominations. She took home a 1996 Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection.

Throughout the course of a nearly 50-year recording career, Armatrading has released 20 studio albums, in addition to a number of live albums and compilations.