Miriam Stockley

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Miriam Stockley is an English singer, born (ca. 1962) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work is influenced by the African music from her home country.

At the age of eleven, Stockley and her older sister Avryl formed a group, the Stockley Sisters. Later in her life, she moved to London to further pursue her musical career. There, she contributed vocals to several albums, and TV commercials.

During the late eighties and early nineties, Stockley worked as a session singer for the UK song writing and production trio; Stock, Aitken and Waterman. Stockley featured on tracks by the likes of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan. Alongside fellow session singer Mae McKenna, Stockley is credited with being partly responsible for the distinctive Stock, Aitken and Waterman sound of the eighties.

In 1991, Stockley became a part of the dance group Praise whose single "Only You" reached number four on the UK charts. Later, she was the vocalist for Adiemus with Karl Jenkins.

Stockley has been featured on several film soundtracks, including her cover of the Rose Royce song "Wishing on a Star", which appears on The 10th Kingdom soundtrack.

Her song, "Perfect Day", was a theme song for a kids show called The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends 1997. The song was written by Colin Towns. She has also appeared as a singer on several BBC school's programmes most notably Look and Read.

In 2004, Yamaha released a software called Vocaloid that allows to synthetically create background vocals and based one of the three available voices on material recorded by Miriam Stockley for this very purpose.