Ruth copeland biography

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        4. Biography A blues folk singer born in Durham, England, Ruth Copeland first came to attention after marrying Jeffrey Bowen, a staff producer at Motown.

          5. Ruth Copeland

          British singer

          Musical artist

          Ruth Copeland (born c. 1946)[2] is an English former singer, based in the United States since the 1960s and known for her collaborations with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.

          Biography

          Early life

          Copeland was born in Consett, County Durham, in the north-east of England, where her father worked for the Consett Iron Company. She grew up in the Blackhill area as a neighbour of musician Freddie 'Fingers' Lee.

          She attended Consett Grammar School and Consett Technical College, and began singing with a local jazz band, the Collegians, in 1963. After her mother's sudden death and her father's remarriage, she left college to pursue a singing career, first in Blackpool and then in London, where she joined a band, Ed and the Intruders, in which Lee played keyboards.[2][3]

          Music career

          In 1965 she travelled to Detroit, where her sister Norma already lived, and soon began performing in clu