Joan Armatrading is a woman of candour – not to mention can do. She gets straight to the heart of the matter, and she delivers.
Her lyrics, her distinctive voice and her multi-instrumental prowess have led to an enduring love and respect from millions across the world. Her words have an authenticity and her vocals an authority that resonate directly with the listener.
On her new studio album Not Too Far Away, out on BMG on May 18th, she presents 10 new tracks that take the deeply personal and make it universal.
Since her 1973 Outstanding New Artist award, Joan has been making superlative music for over four decades. Three times Grammy nominated, two times Brit nominated, winner of an Ivor Novello award and a BASCA Gold Badge, Radio 2’s Lifetime Achievement Folk Award and MMF’s Artist’s Artist Award, she has received accolade after accolade. The recipient of an MBE in 2001, she holds six Honorary degrees and her own BA (achieved while on tour) as well as being voted one of VH1’s Most Influential Women In Rock.
“I write,” says Joan Armatrading, “because I love it.”
Joan Armatrading is an artist who has always stayed true to herself and love, as another famous person once wrote, is not love if alters when it alteration finds.
Grounded in her music and confident in her abilities, Joan has never buckled to current trends and genres in over four decades of superlative music-making. ‘Influential’ and ‘pioneering’ are just two of the epithets that have been rightly attributed to her.
In 2018 Joan Armatrading re-signed to BMG. Her first album for the label is the 10 track Not Too Far Away.
The album will be supported by live dates in America in May and a major tour of the U.K. in September, which includes a night at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on September 29th 2018. For dates/ticket information please go to www.joanarmatrading.com.