Biography

Pauline Black was born on October 23, 1953 in Braintree, Essex, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Funny Man (1994), Two Thousand Acres of Sky (2001) and Wilderness Road (1986). She has been married to Terry Button since 1980.

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2022 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Entertainment. She is a singer, actress and author in Coventry, West Midlands, England.

Multiculturalism is the way forward for any society, any civilised society, and if we can champion that with any new music that we do then I think that's fantastic.

Great songs, that transcend all styles, languages and nationalities, have a beautiful simplicity at their very heart. "Summertime" shares this quality with the other two most covered songs in the world, "My Way" and "Yesterday".