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Artist
Jay Aston
12+ albums
popsinger-songwriterGothic Rock80sdrill
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There are multiple artists with this name 1. Jay Aston found fame with Bucks Fizz who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin with the song Making Your Mind Up. They proved their crictics wrong and went on to have a string of top ten hits including a total of three number one singles. Jay left the group in 1985. Jay released her first solo album Alive and Well in 2004 to rave reviews. In 2006 she released a collection of works called Lamb or Lizard which was avalible through her website. www.jay-aston.co.uk Aston was born in Purley, Surrey, and came from a theatrical/circus family. Her father was a comedian, her mother a former dancer before she became her husband's straight man. They also performed as acrobats. Her brother, Lance, had performed at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 with the band Prima Donna.[3] Aston herself trained as a dancer, singer and actress at the Italia Conti School of Speech and Drama and performed on stage many times in her teens mainly as a dancer.[4] Bucks Fizz[edit] Aston was one of the four original members of Bucks Fizz when they were formed in 1981 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest that year. They won with "Making Your Mind Up" and the song went to number one in many countries, including the United Kingdom. The group went on to become one of the top selling groups of the 1980s and scored many hit single and albums over the next few years, including two more British Number 1s: "The Land of Make Believe" and "My Camera Never
