Annie Lennox

Acting

Born 1954-12-25 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK 87 credits Academy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 Livingstone Medal 1 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1 honorary doctorate 1 Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won

2004 Best Original Song Won Into the West

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

2004 Best Original Song Won Into the West

Livingstone Medal 1 won

— Livingstone Medal Won

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1 won

2022 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Won

honorary doctorate 1 won

2012 honorary doctorate Won

Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1 won

2011 Officer of the Order of the British Empire Won

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Annie Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954), is a Scottish recording artist. After achieving minor success in the band The Tourists in the late 1970s, Lennox went on to major international success in the 1980s as part of the duo Eurythmics, which she formed with former Tourists' member David A. Stewart. In the 1990s, Lennox embarked on a solo career beginning with her debut album Diva (1992), which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". She has released five solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection, in 2009. She is the recipient of eight BRIT Awards. In 2004, she won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV charities in Africa. She also objected to the unauthorized use of the 1999 Eurythmics song "I Saved the World Today" in an election broadcast for Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Known as a pop culture icon for her distinctive contralto vocals and visual performances, Lennox has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. She has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history" because of her global commercial success since the early 1980s. Including her work within Eurythmics, Lennox is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 80 million records worldwide.