Charlie Dore

Charlie Dore - Biog '09

Although best known as one of the UK's most respected singer-songwriters, Charlie enjoys a multi-faceted career that includes acting in film, TV & radio, comedy-improvisation, screenwriting and composition for film and TV.

She has made five albums of her own songs, the last two of which, "Sleep All Day" and "Cuckoo Hill", saw a return to her acoustic folk-country roots and won her excellent reviews.Last year Charlie won the International Acoustic Music Awards Grand Prize as well as First Prize Folk with her song "Looking For My Own Lone Ranger".

Her enduring radio classic, 'Pilot of the Airwaves' was the first of many successful songs that lead the way for an impressively diverse list of artists to record her material, including Tina Turner, George Harrison,Lisa Stansfield,Paul Carrack,Ricky Ross,Sheena Easton(US No 4),Celine Dion and Jimmy Nail, for whom she wrote "Ain't No Doubt", a UK No 1.

Although her solo albums favour her more eclectic, acoustic side Charlie continues to court diversity with collaborations, notably with Souled Out, who remixed her single "Time Goes By" to produce a European club hit (Italy No 6, Israel No 1), British underground dance dons, Slacker, ("Space County") and Pete"Boxta"Martin, whose forthcoming album "Slide" features her as guest vocalist.

She starred opposite Jonathon Pryce in the award-winning film "The Ploughman's Lunch", worked in theatre, including regional, fringe and West End and co-founded and performed at comedy-impro venue The Hurricane Club, working alongside many comedy icons, including Robin Williams.

Having spent the last two years writing and touring to promote 'Sleep All Day' and 'Cuckoo Hill', Charlie is shortly to release a new album - a collection of American hillbilly, swing and popular favourites of the 1930's, originally recorded by artists such as Jimmie Rodgers, Milton Brown and Al Bowlly. Named after her first band, Hula Valley, the album features several guests, including Beth Nielsen Chapman, who duets with Charlie on the Rodgers classic, 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon'.

Reviews for ‘Cuckoo Hill’ and ‘Sleep All Day”

‘File under treasure’ – Charlie Gillett, Observer Music Magazine

‘A clever songwriter with a dream of a voice that glides from folk and country to jazzy cabaret’ – The Telegraph

‘She sounds like Albion’s lost McGarrigle sister’ – Uncut

‘The surety of Dore’s singing helps highlight the elegance and candour of her songs’
The Observer

‘playful and clever… a wonderful kind of bittersweet pastoral Englishness’ – Americana UK

‘Charlie Dore takes artistry to a whole new level’ – Maverick