Elkie Brooks at Nell's Jazz & Blues

Elkie Brooks is an English singer, who was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s and has been nominated twice for Brit Awards. She is known for her powerful husky voice and hit singles such as ‘Pearl’s a Singer’, ‘Lilac Wine’, ‘Don’t Cry Out Loud’, ‘Fool (If You Think It’s Over)’, and ‘No More the Fool’, and top-selling album Pearls. She is generally referred to as the ‘British Queen of Blues’. By April 2012, Brooks had released more albums that had reached the top 75 of the UK album chart than any other British female artist.