Born on December 9th, 1950, Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading is an English-Kittitian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Was Tracy Chapman inspired by Joan Armatrading?

The Top Ten hit Love and Affection was featured on her debut album Joan Armatrading, released in 1976. Her popularity as a black singer and songwriter led to a string of other singles, and she influenced artists like Tracy Chapman and Tasmin Archer.

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Around the age of 14, Armatrading began composing her own songs by setting her own limericks to music on a piano that her mother had purchased as “furniture.”

Joan Armatrading lost her first job after bringing her guitar to work and playing it during tea breaks.

Three Grammy Awards and two BRIT Awards for Best Female Artist have been nominated for Armatrading. She received an Ivor Novello Award in 1996 for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection.

Over 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.