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Shirley Bassey

HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 24: Singers Barbra Streisand, Adele, winner of the Best Original Song award for 'Skyfall,' and Shirley Bassey attend the Oscars Governors Ball at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California.

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About Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937, Cardiff, Wales) is a British singer. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. Bassey is an international artist who has accumulated 20 silver discs for sales in Britain, Europe and the Middle East; fifty-plus gold discs for international record sales; and countless greatest hits compilation albums including one gold and two platinum.

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