Christine Tobin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christine Tobin
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Jan 7, 1963(1963-01-07)
Age	61
Birthplace	Ireland
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Christine Tobin Biography

Christine Tobin is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on January 7, 1963 in Ireland, United Kingdom. Christine Tobin (born 7 January 1963, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish singer and composer who hails from Dublin that has been a part of the London jazz and music scene since the second half the 1980s. She was influenced by an array of vocalists and writers such as Betty Carter, Bessie Smith, Leonard Cohen, Olivier Messiaen, Miles Davis and poets William Butler Yeats, Paul Muldoon and Eva Salzman.

In 2008 she performed on tour in England with her debut record Secret Life of a Girl which was her first album release since Romance and Revolution in 2004 and the seventh album to release through Babel Label. Babel Label, with her band consisting of musicians including pianist Liam Noble, cellist Kate Shortt Guitarist Phil Robson, bassist Dave Whitford and Thebe Lipere, percussionist Thebe Lipere along with Drummer Simon Lea.

In 2012 Tobin released Sailing to Byzantium, a critically acclaimed album of her settings of the poems of W.B. Yeats. Jazzwise magazine reviewed the album and said “Christine Tobin has created an unqualified masterpiece.”

In 2014 Tobin released A Thousand Kisses Deep, an album of Leonard Cohen songs. The Irish Times said, “A lesser singer might be over-shadowed by the darkness of Cohen’s words. But Tobin invests these songs with their full meaning, and even finds the odd glimmer of hope where none was formerly apparent.”

Tobin is also promoted. For just a few months in 2005, she managed an event in The Progress Bar located in Tufnell Park. She also serves as a manager of the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston.

Christine Tobin Net Worth

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

Tobin first began to sing in the 20s. She first discovered jazz when she heard music from the Joni Mitchell album Mingus, which inspired her to purchase Mingus Ah Um, the Charles Mingus album Mingus Ah Um and then other jazz albums. She relocated into London in 1987 and performed in a group that included Jean Toussaint, Jason Rebello, Alec Dankworth, and Mark Taylor before studying jazz at the Guildhall School of Music in 1988 and 1989. While at Guildhall she was part of the group that included pianist Simon Purcell, double bassist Steve Watts, and drummer Phil Allen. Purcell inspired Tobin to write the lyrics for his tunes , and put her on the road to creating her own music. Tobin stopped singing in the year 1990 to pursue an anthropology course with Goldsmiths College for two years.

For the past ten years she was a member of the group Lammas with the saxophonist Tim Garland and guitarist Don Paterson. In 1993, she founded the group together with piano Huw Warren and the bassist Steve Watts, and drummer Roy Dodds, recording the two first album, Aliliu and Yell of the Gazelle 7 for Babel Label. Babel Label with them. Then she came across guitar player Phil Robson with whom she has developed a close musical connection. The album sleeves are typically created in the style of Gee Vaucher and she has also collaborated with other members of the Last Amendment including Penny Rimbaud.

In 2010 Tobin released the album Tapestry Unravelled, a duet with pianist Liam Noble. This is mostly the songs from Carole King’s 1971 Tapestry album with one Tobin original. In 2012 Tobin, who with her partner Phil Robson is now spending much of her time in New York, won a BASCA British Composer Award for her settings of poems by WB Yeats, Sailing To Byzantium. She was also awarded a PRS commission to write new music. Pelt (2016), an album of her settings of poems and lyrics by contemporary Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon, is the completion of that commission.

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Facts & Trivia

Christine Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Christine Tobin celebrates birthday on January 7 of every year.