Sandra King

With her Rapunzel-like red hair and stunning face and figure, Sandra King could have been an actress or a model -- but her voice was so much stronger than any of those other attributes that music always beckoned as a career. Born Sandra Fairbrass in London in 1950, she was the granddaughter of a composer and song and dance man from the British music hall, and her brother Richard entered the business as a pianist and later became an employee of the Chappell's music publishing empire. By 1963, at age 13, Sandra King was cutting songwriters' demos, and she made her professional p...