People Associated with the University of Chester - Academics of the University of Chester, Alumni of the University of Chester, William Crookes, Walter Winterbottom, Duffy, J. Thomas Looney, Helen Jones, Wainer Lusoli, Gerald Grosvenor (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Academics of the University of Chester, Alumni of the University of Chester, William Crookes, Walter Winterbottom, Duffy, J. Thomas Looney, Helen Jones, Wainer Lusoli, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, Comedy Dave, Jo Fletcher, Ron Geaves, Mike Hall, George Courtney, Alan Bleasdale, Jim Bowen, Dick Howard, Jon Clarke, Jake Berry, James Holt, Tim Wheeler, Anthony Thiselton, Howard Williams, Nicholas Stratford, Roderick Hunt, Matt Greenhalgh, Rob Wotton, Francis William Harvey, John Carleton, Tracey Neville, Jon Sleightholme, Eddie Lever. Excerpt: Aimee Ann Duffy (born 23 June 1984), known as Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold. The album was certified several times Platinum and sold over 6 million copies worldwide, spawning the hits "Mercy" and "Warwick Avenue." With "Mercy," Duffy became the first Welsh female to achieve number-one on the UK Singles Chart since Bonnie Tyler topped the charts with "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1983. In 2009, Duffy won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry, and she was nominated for two other Grammys at the 51st Grammy Awards. In 2009 she won three Brit Awards: British Breakthrough, Best Female Solo and Best British Album. In 2010 she completed recording of her second album Endlessly that was released on 29 November and made her acting debut in the film Patagonia. In February 2011 it was announced that Duffy would take an extended hiatus from music before beginning work on her third album. Duffy was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, and brought up in Nefyn on the Ll n Peninsula, in Gwynedd, Wales, with her twin sister, Katy Ann, and older sister Kelly; she would later write songs...