CAROL GRIMES, BIOGRAPHY. www.carolgrimes.com
Biography
I was born in London. A long time ago when bombs were falling from the skies: there were no Bananas, and radio was the music and the word. The years passed and then, in 1959 I fell in love with Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. It was Margie Hendricks roaring out the chorus of “Night Time is the Right Time” on a cafe Juke Box that ‘made me wanna holler, made me wanna sing’ and the voice of Ella on her hit of those times ‘Every time we say goodbye.’ These early Musical memories gave me a life long love of the Jazz and Blues voice both in melody and improvisation.
I started singing regularly in the streets of London as a Busker, first as a Bottler for Paris nat, and along the south coast in the sixties, working with assorted guitar and harmonica players until I formed my first band; THE RACE. This Blues and Folk based outfit worked mainly in the London area and out to Europe.