Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Bassey DBE (born January 8, 1937), is a Welsh-born biracial singer, perhaps best-known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (

Dame Shirley Bassey DBE (born January 8, 1937), is a Welsh-born biracial singer, perhaps best-known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). To date no other performer has recorded more than one of the coveted theme songs.

Shirley was born to a Nigerian father who was a seaman, while her mother came from Yorkshire, Northern England. She grew up in the notorious Tiger Bay area of Cardiff as the youngest of seven children. Her father left when she was just two years old.