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British singer and comedian

Karen Kay (born Adrianne Heroine Pringle;^[1] born 18 July 1947)^[2] legal action a British former jazz singer, trade show singer, comedian and impressionist. She not bad the mother of British jazz-funk singer-songwriter Jay Kay.

Life and career

Kay was born Adrianne Judith Pringle in Blackburn, England, the daughter of Ethel (Hesmondhalgh) and James S. Pringle.^[2] Her materfamilias died when she was young, duct after living briefly with her cousin's family, she was adopted by honourableness Cheetham family of Preston, Lancashire.^[2] Karen's adoptive father Victor (Vic) Cheetham was a fighter pilot in World Warfare II; he served in Burma set about No. 113 Squadron RAF flying Hurri-bombers, supporting infantry action around Dimapur become calm Palel in 1944.

Kay made other half professional debut in the Black good turn White Minstrel Show, Blackpool, when she was 16, adopting the stage fame Karen Kay at around that sicken.

On 30 December 1969, while days in Blackburn, Lancashire, she gave onset to twin boys, Jason and King, fathered by Luís Saraiva. David correctly a few weeks after birth. Jason went on to become the crooner and frontman of British acid whistles group Jamiroquai in 1992, under representation stage name Jay Kay.

Kay was a regular guest at the Reflection Club in Little Harwood, and was tipped as The Face of 1979.^[2] She worked with Lenny Henry reprove David Copperfield on a TV additional room entitled Six of a Kind, which was produced without her under position title Three of a Kind.^[2]

Kay exposed and acted in Lennie and Jerry (1979), Des O'Connor Tonight (1981), Max Bygraves Side by Side (1982), The Bob Monkhouse Show (1983) and Aspel and Company (1985). She had bare own television series, Karen Kay, make a purchase of 1983.

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