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Joanna Eden is an English
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singer, songwriter and pianist.


Biography

Eden was born in
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into a musical family, the daughter of an
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bass player, John, and a drama teacher, Diana. She started learning the piano at six and performed her first composition, "Happy December", aged seven. She obtained a B.A. (Hons) in Creative Arts, majoring in music and drama, at
Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Metropolitan University is located in the centre of Manchester, England. The university has over 40,000 students and over 4,000 members of staff. It is home to four faculties (Arts and Humanities, Business and Law, Health and Educat ...
. She performed with a local Indie band, Strip, as lead singer and co-writer while also continuing to write and perform solo. Eden relocated to London after college and started working as a singer/pianist in the bars and restaurants of
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. She married drummer Charlie Price. Eden and Price formed a jazz trio with Dan Boutwood, and this unit worked cruises for Cunard Line and
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. Subsequently, they worked hotels in Cyprus and the UK. On returning to the United Kingdom in 1999, Joanna signed her first recording contract with the
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label, now owned by
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. Her first album, ''A Little Bird Told Me'', was released in the summer of 2000 and launched at
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, it was played on
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Radio and won enthusiastic reviews from
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, ''
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'' and others. Eden returned to the studio and the self-penned album ''My Open Eye'' was released independently on Eden's Mr. Riddles Music Label in 2005. It was re-released with world-wide distribution via
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in 2007. The critical success of ''My Open Eye'' brought about support slots with
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,
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and the
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, and
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airplay. After tracks from the album were played by Michael Parkinson, her manager obtained support for Eden from the supermarket chains,
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and
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. She released her third album, ''Moving Shadows'', an album of covers, in 2007 on the 33 Jazz label. This is a jazz trio album, featuring Charlie and long-term bass collaborator Julie Walkington. In August 2007, the Joanna Eden trio headlined the fifth Picnic Jazz concert at the Pavilion,
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. She has since supported the Blockheads and
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at venues around the UK and continues to headline at Pizza on the Park, Pizza Express Jazzclub and
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, in
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which was founded by Cleo Laine and
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. She teaches music, and her former students include
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, winner of the BBC's Sound of... 2014.


Personal life

Eden and Price have a daughter, and live in
Saffron Walden Saffron Walden is a market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period. The population was 15, ...
in
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.


Discography


References


Sources

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External links


Joanna Eden's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eden, Joanna Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English women singer-songwriters Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University People from Lincolnshire People from Saffron Walden