Pam Nestor

Pam Nestor is a former singer, songwriter and actress who was active in the entertainment industry in the 1960s and 1970s. She left the music industry in 1979 and in later life took to academic pursuits, gaining a doctorate in 2009 from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Pam Nestor was born in Berbice, Guyana, onApril 1948. While at school in Guyana, she began to write poetry and eventually won a poetry competition. She came to England in 1961 and at the age oflived in Muswell Hill, London, with her mother and younger sister. She was described in 1977 by the music journalist Nick Kent as very, very pretty, with a gorgeous ebony face warm lively eyes and a contagious smile, and her personality as effervescent fizzing with drive and later, in 1990, by the author Sean Mayes as pretty and petite with an infectious, bubbling personality and irrepressibly outspoken. She was a free spirit, in her own words crazy, tough, intense, idealistic. By the age ofshe had fronted several semipro soul bands around London, and was a single mother with two children by the age of 19.

Source: Wikipedia