Julia Fordham
Julia Fordham’s eponymous debut showed off her smoky jazz bar low dulcet voice and contained four singles: ‘The Comfort of Strangers,’ ‘Woman of the 80's,’ first hit ’Happy Ever After,’ and ‘Where Does the Time Go’.
The following year ‘Porcelain’ consolidated her presence as a leading album artiste. Produced by Hugh Padgham, Grant Mitchell and Fordham herself, standout tracks include ‘Lock and Key’; tonally warm, its vocal delivery was likened to Joni Mitchell .
More tales of hopelessness in the art of relationships were outlined in 1991's ‘Swept’ which included the excellent ‘I Thought it Was You’.
Re-locating to the States in the mid-nineties, Fordham began work on her fourth album with Larry Klein, Fordham's ‘Falling Forward’ became another slice of technical accomplishment.
A solid greatest hits compilation released in 1999, ‘Collection’ included updated versions of ‘Happy Ever After’ and ‘Where Does the Time Go’ as well as ‘Killing Me Slowly’ from fifth album. ‘East West’. She teamed up with Larry Klein once again during the new millennium, in time for the release of Julia Fordham's sixth studio album, ‘Concrete Love’ in 2002.
