Sharleen Spiteri

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

“I still get that call from my sister saying, ‘Bring your scissors’, she never asks me to sing her a song!” Sharleen Spiteri, lead singer of Scottish rock band Texas, chats to Colin Murray about living with synesthesia (a condition that means she sees colours in music), maintaining her hairdressing skills, why she turned down a Calvin Klein ad campaign, collaborating with Wu Tang Clan, and why her daughter doesn’t care that Texas are playing Glastonbury in 2023!

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