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Barb Jungr was born on 9 May, 1954 in Rochdale. Discover Barb Jungr's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Singer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 9 May 1954
Birthday 9 May
Birthplace Rochdale, Lancashire, England
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2016

In early 2016, Jungr was a featured artist in James Gavin's Lincoln Center songbook series celebrating Peggy Lee.

2015

During 2015, her collaborations included performances with John McDaniel on both sides of the Atlantic.

Since 2015, she has recorded and toured on both sides of the Atlantic with pianist Laurence Hobgood, with whom she recorded Shelter from the Storm (2016) featuring three original compositions alongside songs by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Rodgers and Hammerstein, David Bowie, Stephen Sondheim, Bruce Springsteen, and Peter Gabriel.

2014

In March 2014, Jungr released Hard Rain: the songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and toured the UK with a season at the 59E59 Theater in New York. The album won Best Cabaret CD from BroadwayWorld.com.

2012

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.

In 2012, she created the song cycle "Deep Roots Tall Trees" for the Core Theatre at Corby, with local musicians, songwriters, and poets, which culminated in a concert at Corby football ground in August 2014 incorporating local musicians, the Deep Roots Tall Trees Choir, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antony Weedon. This concert started the Made in Corby Arts Council England initiative.

2010

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.

2008

In 2008, she released Just Like a Woman – Hymn to Nina featuring the repertoire of Nina Simone and was given a Nightlife Award in New York in 2008 for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist.

2007

In 2007, Jungr collaborated with British composer Mark Anthony Turnage, appearing with the London Sinfonietta in the commissioned piece About Water at Queen Elizabeth Hall to celebrate the reopening of the Festival Hall.

2002

Appearing in a New York season at the Flea Theatre in 2002, she was given the Backstage Bistro Awar in 2003 for Best International Artist. In 2004 she recorded Love Me Tender, an album of songs recorded by Elvis Presley for release in March 2005, followed by Walking in the Sun (2006) featuring guitarist Eric Bibb.

Jungr acted in British director Robina Rose's film Nightshift, playing the bar girl. For Debbie Isitt's Snarling Beastie Theatre Company she composed music for The Woman who Cooked Her Husband at the Royal Court Upstairs and Matilda Liar at the Tricycle Theatre. She appeared in Isitt's 10 by 10 for BBC Television. In 2002 the British Council supported Jungr's three-week run at the Flea Theatre in New York.

1999

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.

1991

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.

1990

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.

1987

She formed the duo Jungr and Parker with blues guitarist Michael Parker. For thirteen years they performed internationally and appeared regularly on British television and radio. They hosted the BBC Radio 2 series We Stayed in with...Jungr and Parker with specials recorded at the Edinburgh Festival and produced by Sonia Beldom. Jungr and Parker toured with Alexei Sayle and Arnold Brown, with whom they won a Perrier Award in Edinburgh in 1987 at the Gilded Balloon Theatre, and toured nationally and internationally with Julian Clary, appearing with him in the West End at the Aldwych Theatre and on Channel 4 television in Sticky Moments and Terry and Julian.

1981

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

1970

Arriving in London in the mid 1970s, Jungr worked with playwright Pam Gems and composer Paul Sand, appearing as the singer at the Edinburgh Festival production of Gem's play Dead Fish, which became Dusa Fish Stas and Vi. Jungr's first single was "He's Gone", as the Stroke, released by CBS, was single of the week in New Musical Express and was written and recorded with her husband Dan Bowling.

She formed the Three Courgettes with Michael Parker and Jerry Kreeger and performed new wave versions of gospel songs in the Kings Road and Portobello Market in the late 1970s. The band was discovered by Island Records, then toured with Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Sade, Mari Wilson, and the Jets. The Three Courgettes recorded a Christmas song for Michael Zilkha's A Christmas Record.

1954

Barb Jungr (born 9 May 1954) is an English singer and songwriter, who has recorded versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Sting, Elvis Presley, and Leonard Cohen.