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Kiki Dee Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my late 30s, I flirted with the idea of having a child without necessarily being in a steady relationship. But I've never had a strong maternal urge, and then I got cancer of the womb - luckily caught at an early stage - so that put paid to that.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't know where I got my voice, but ours was always a musical house.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad always encouraged my singing, so when 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' was a hit in the States, I flew my parents to New York first-class to see me, put them up at the Waldorf Astoria, then they sailed home on the QE2.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing Fontana did was get me to change my hair colour from light brown to red, and the songwriter Mitch Murray suggested I change my name from Pauline Matthews to Kiki Dee.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.
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- Nov 07, 2020