Annie Lennox: I'm a mother, a woman, a cook, a singer

 
30 August 2013

Annie Lennox may be one of Britain’s most prolific singer-songwriters but she very nearly missed her calling after enrolling at the Royal Academy of Music. “I thought I wanted to be a flute player,” she told The Atlantic.“Then I discovered that I’d make a bad flute player.”

Lennox found fame with the Eurythmics and as a soloist but is proud to say that she has resisted being pigeonholed. “It’s important that we don’t get reduced down to a label that says we are just one thing,” she said. “I’m a mother, I’m a woman, I’m a cook, I’m a speaker, I’m a singer. I do a lot of things and I think everyone should feel that they have a right to that.”

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