Petula Clark

Biography

Petula Clark, born in Ewell, Surrey, is a British singer, songwriter and actress who began performing as a child on wartime BBC Radio. She scored her first British hit with 'The Little Shoemaker' in 1954, built a parallel career singing in French, and became an international star in the 1960s with 'Downtown', 'My Love' and 'I Know a Place'. Famed as the most successful British female solo artist of her era, she also acted in films and stage musicals and has kept recording and performing for over eighty years.