Sam Brown is 60 this week.

Her mum and dad were famous musicians, dad Joe, is still on the road performing and her mother was Vicki Brown who died in 1991 age 50, but she was a member of the Vernon’s Girls and The Breakaways. Joe never had a UK number one but Vicki did….as a backing singer on J.J. Barrie’s No Charge. J.J., at the age of 91, is currently the oldest living male singer to have ever had a UK number one single.

Sam began a singing career in the 80w and her biggest hit was her debut, Stop which reached number four. The follow up was a cover of Marvin Gaye’s Can I Get A Witness which peaked at number 15.

She has, at various times, been a member of Jools Holland’s Rhythm and Blues Orchestra and in 2002, she appeared at the Queen’s Golden Jubilee celebrations.

In 2015, she began working at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford which is a school for musicians and there she teaches backing vocals which is how she began her career in the mid-80s working for David Gilmore Gary Moore, George Harrison and Nick Cave among others.

Let’s enjoy her biggest UK hit.