Barb Jungr

Quick Facts

Full Name	Barb Jungr
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	May 9, 1954(1954-05-09)
Age	70
Birthplace	Rochdale
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Barb Jungr Biography

Barb Jungr is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on May 9, 1954 in Rochdale, England, United Kingdom. Barb Jungr (born 9 May 1954) is a English artist and singer who has recorded music from Bob Dylan, Sting, Elvis Presley, and Leonard Cohen.

She founded The group Jungr and Parker together with Blues guitar player Michael Parker. For 13 years, they performed worldwide and were frequently featured on British television as well as radio. They also hosted their own BBC Radio 2 show We Stayed In with…Jungr as well as Parker with specials that were recorded in Edinburgh Festival. Edinburgh Festival and produced by Sonia Beldom. Jungr and Parker performed together with Alexei Sayle and Arnold Brown who they also were awarded the Perrier Award in Edinburgh in 1987 at the Gilded Balloon Theatre, and performed internationally and nationally together with Julian Clary and appeared alongside Julian at The West End at the Aldwych Theatre as well as in the theatre on Channel 4 television in Sticky Moments and Terry and Julian.

In 1991, Jungr and Parker performed in a Festival of European music in Sudan funded by the British Council. The success of that trip led to them performing and giving workshops in Cameroon, Tanzania, Malawi, and Burma. Jungr wrote about these experiences for the Guardian Diary, Folk Roots, and The Singer, and in 1994 enrolled in a masters program at Goldsmith’s College in ethnomusicology for which she received a Distinction. She specialised in the Voice and Singing. During that time Jungr began to embark on solo shows, accompanied by Russell Churney, and started a solo career with the release the album Bare, which was recorded in a day, live at the Conway Hall with the support of Overtones Studios.

In 1999, Jungr was invited to record for Linn Records in Glasgow. In 2000 Linn released Chanson: The Space in Between, an album of English translations of classic French chansons. In 2002, she released Every Grain of Sand, an album of arrangements of Bob Dylan’s songs, followed by Waterloo Sunset in 2003.

She was the wife of the writer and musician Richard “Dan” Bowling (son of the painter Frank Bowling and the writer Paddy Kitchen) from 1981 to 1991.

Barb Jungr Net Worth

Barb Jungr is one of the richest Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Barb Jungr 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She founded her group the Three Courgettes with Michael Parker and Jerry Kreeger and performed new modern versions of gospel songs during the Kings Road and Portobello Market in the latter part of the 1970s. The group were discovered through Island Records, then toured with Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Sade, Mari Wilson along with the Jets. They were the Three Courgettes recorded a Christmas song for Michael Zilkha’s A Christmas Record.

In London in the late 70s Jungr collaborated with the play’s writer Pam Gems and composer Paul Sand and was a vocalist in the Edinburgh Festival production of Gem’s production Dead Fish, which became Dusa Fish Stas and Vi. Jungr’s first hit single is “He’s Gone”, as the Stroke was released by CBS as the number one top for the week of New Musical Express and was recorded and written by Dan Bowling, her partner. Dan Bowling.

In the early 1990s, Jungr developed themed shows which have become her speciality: “Hell Bent Heaven Bound” (with Ian Shaw, Christine Collister and Michael Parker) was Perrier Pick of the Fringe, “Money the Final Frontier” (with Helen Watson, Christine Collister and Michael Parker) was invited to the Canadian Music Festivals. In 1998 she toured with the show Sex, Religion and Politics directed by Julia Pascal, appearing at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival . With composer James Tomalin she contributed “Jackie” to the Jacques Brel compilation album and Fear of a Red Planet.

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In March 2010, she released The Men I Love – The New American Songbook . She performed a second season at the Cafe Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel in New York. In 2010 Jungr released Man in the Long Black Coat: Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan. In 2012 she released Stockport to Memphis.

Facts & Trivia

Barb Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Barb Jungr celebrates birthday on May 9 of every year.

Jungr coached the young offenders in vocal delivery for Brian Hill’s Bafta- winning film Feltham Sings. She created the voice course at London Metropolitan University and formed and ran the Raise the Roof Horseman Choir (which she founded) for several years. In 2012 she created the song cycle “Deep Roots Tall Trees” for the Core Theatre at Corby, with local musicians, songwriters, and poets.