Carolynne Good
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Carolynne Good (born 5 August 1980, in Leeds) is an English singer-songwriter and a founding member of the Carolynne Good Band. She is based in Leeds and London.
[edit] Career
Good's early musical influences included The Eagles, U2, The Carpenters and, in particular, Mary Chapin Carpenter.
At the age of 14, Good joined and fronted a 5 piece country band, with which she toured the UK. At 18, Carolynne moved to London to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter, and in 1998 she got down to the final 15 in auditions for S Club 7, along with Pop Idol contestant Zoe Birkett. In 2001 she signed her first publishing contact with BMG Music Publishing. For the following year, Carolynne developed her songwriting talents in the UK and Europe. Also writing for other recording artists, most of her time was split between London and Stockholm, writing and recording with different song writers and producers.
In 2003, Good appeared in the second series of the BBC's singing competition Fame Academy, in which she reached the final. A song she co-wrote with fellow contestants Alex Parks and James Fox titled "Not Your Average Kind of Girl", was included on Parks' 2003 debut album Introduction, which reached number 5 in the UK Top 40 Album charts and has since been classified double platinum in the UK, and gold in six other countries including Italy, Greece, Germany and Australia.
Good spent 2004 writing songs, and in 2005 she toured the UK with Tony Christie.
Under the wing of Christie's Amarillo Music, she co-wrote new material and formed the Carolynne Good Band in 2005 with songwriter/bassist Don Rogers, drummer Sean Fitzgerald, guitarists Alex Rogers and Alex Sharman from the London-based band Starling, and keyboard player Maki. The band described their sound as "a mixture of classic singer-songwriter melodies with a country flavour".
Since 2005, Good has regularly appeared on stage in pantomime and has also acted in short films.
In February 2008 she announced her engagement to professional footballer David Poole.[1]
