Joy's Story / 2
 

In 1979 I toured the UK with the British Continental Singers, a large Christian choir. In 1980 I auditioned for, and was awarded, the Cleo Laine Music Award, which sponsored me to attend the Wavendon Allmusic Plan Courses in Wavendon - jazz and all music, about three different courses run by Cleo Laine and John Dankworth.   This led to me performing on TV with Cleo Laine in 1981.

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In the early 1980s, I joined a jazz band run by Bob Hunt, called Orange Blossom, based in Kettering, Northants.  Bob is now a major name in jazz and is based in London.  In the midst of all this activity, I made time to train as a nurse, and after qualifying in this profession, in 1991, I joined one of the top UK bands based in the Midlands - Tad Newtons Jazz Friends, performing with this band until moving to Devon in 1994.