Sheena Easton You Could Have Been With Me

1981) 1980s pop diva Sheena Easton was born Sheena Shirley Orr in Bellshill, Scotland on April 27, 1959. Inspired to pursue a singing career after seeing Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were, she later attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama while moonlighting with the group Something Else. Exposure on the BBC television production The Big Time: Pop Singer not only resulted in a record deal with EMI but also pushed Easton s 1980 debut singles, Modern Girl and 9 to 5, into the U. K. Top Ten, and she became the first female artist to score two simultaneous Top Ten hits. Her selftitled debut LP followed in 1981, while 9 to 5 was reissued in America under the title Morning Train to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton s recent hit of the same name; regardless, the single topped the U. S. pop charts, with Modern Girl cracking the Top 20 a few months later. After earning a Grammy as Best New Artist, Easton was tapped to sing the title the br, br,