Lulu (singer)

In 2004 she released the album Back on Track and went on a UK wide tour to celebrate 40 years in the business. 2002: Another Phase (Sony Music Norge)
2004: White Turns Blue (Columbia)
2004: Mellow (Sony Music Norge). In 2002 her Gold album Together was a collection of duets with the likes of Elton John and Paul McCartney. The young singer quickly gained fans and soon earned her first gold record. Her 2003 autobiography is called Don't Wanna Fight No More after a song she wrote for Tina Turner. The song received heavy rotation on NRK P1, P4, Radio 1, Radio Oslo and NRK Petre. In 2000 she was awarded an MBE by the British Government. In January 2002, Maria's single "My Lullaby" debuted.

She also appeared as herself in an episode of the hugely popular Absolutely Fabulous. Sony Music signed Maria Mena onto their label. The single reached number one in the British charts. Then he presented his daughter's demo to the music industry. In 1987, she played Adrian Mole's mother on television, and in the 1990s she made a comeback, guesting on the cover version of the Dan Hartman song Relight My Fire, with Take That. After pleading with her father to make a demo, he contacted some industry experts to record Maria's songs in the studio. Lulu's singing career waned, but she remained in the public eye, continuing to act. Not all the stories in her diary became songs, but "My Lullaby" was one of them, expressing her pain from her parents' divorce.

She became interested in eastern mysticism and joined Siddha Yoga Meditation. She sang and wrote lyrics as a therapy for her feelings and frustration. They had one son, Jordan Frieda. When Maria was 13 years old she moved to live with her musician father. Lulu then married her hairdresser, John Frieda, and remained with him for twenty years until another divorce. She suffered from depression and developed an eating disorder. Their careers forced them apart, and they divorced, childless, in 1973. When Maria was nine years old her parents divorced, at which that time was very rough on Maria.

In the same year, Lulu married Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in a fairytale ceremony in Gerrards Cross. Her father played in several bands in Oslo, which influenced Maria towards music. In 1969, she represented the United Kingdom by performing the song "Boom bang-a-bang" at the Eurovision Song Contest, and was joint winner with the representatives of Spain, the Netherlands and France - there had never been a draw before, and the rules were altered to prevent it ever happening again. Both Maria and her younger brother Tony are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. In the meantime, she continued with a thriving pop career and several television series of her own. Her mother wrote plays and her father Charles was a drummer. In 1966 she made her debut as a film actress in To Sir, with Love, a British vehicle for Sidney Poitier, and had a major hit with the film's title song. Maria Mena was born into an artistic family.

Her backing group were called "The Luvvers", but she soon ditched them to become a mainstream solo artist. Maria Viktoria Mena (born February 19, 1986) is a Norwegian pop star. She was born on November 3, 1948 in Glasgow, and shot to fame at the age of fifteen with her version of "Shout", delivered in a raucous and extremely mature voice. Lulu (real name Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) is a Scottish singer.