About Annie Haslam
Annie Haslam is an English vocalist, songwriter and painter. She is best known as the lead singer of progressive rock band Renaissance since 1971, and for her long and diverse solo singing career. She has a five-octave vocal range. From 2002, Haslam has developed a parallel career as a visual artist, producing paintings on canvas, painted musical instruments and giclées. The girlfriend of Haslam's brother Michael (her first name was Sonia) urged Haslam to take voice lessons from teacher Harold Miller. As her first professional singing job, Haslam spent a year singing at a dinner/cabaret club named Showboat in the Strand in London's West End with the band The Gentle People. Haslam called to find out the name of the group (it was Renaissance) and she bought its first album Renaissance. After studying fashion at Redruth Art School in Cornwall, Haslam began working as an assistant at fashion company Jaeger and then became an apprentice at David Coombs, a Savile Row tailor in London.
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