Pauline Black

Pauline Black is a British singer, actress and author. She is mainly known for her role as the lead singer of the ska group The Selecter.

Black was born in Romford, to an AngloJewish teenage mother and Nigerian father. She was adopted by a white middleaged couple and given the name Pauline Vickers. Her biological father, Gordon Adenle, had come to London from Nigeria to study engineering and was a Yoruba prince. Black was unaware of her Jewish heritage until the age of 42 when she traced her birth mother. Black studied science at Lanchester Polytechnic before training as a radiographer in Coventry. Upon completion of her studies she worked for the NHS for five years before she entered the music industry.

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