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Helen Kate Shapiro born 28 September is a British pop and jazz singer and actress. With a voice described by AllMusic as possessing "the maturity and sensibilities of someone far beyond their teen years", Shapiro recorded two UK chart toppers , " You Don't Know " and " Walkin' Back to Happiness ", when she was just 14 years old.

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Although too poor to own a record player, Shapiro's parents encouraged music in their home she had to borrow a neighbour's player to hear her first single. Shapiro played banjolele as a child and occasionally sang with her brother Ron in the skiffle group of his youth club. She had a deep timbre to her voice, unusual in a girl not yet in her teens; school friends nicknamed her "Foghorn".

At the age of 10, Shapiro was a singer with Susie and the Hula Hoops together with her cousin, s singer Susan Singer , a school band that included Marc Bolan then using his real name of Mark Feld as guitarist. I had no desire to slavishly follow Alma's style, but chose the school merely because of Alma's success", she said in a interview.

The single quickly reached the top of the chart with far greater sales than her last [ 2 ] in October , by which time Shapiro had turned Shapiro's next single release, " Tell Me What He Said ", peaked at number two, [ 3 ] [ 14 ] meaning each of her first four single releases made the top three of the UK Singles Chart. The Beatles' first national tour of Britain , in the late winter and early spring of , was as one of her supporting acts.

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I never got to hear it or give an opinion. It's a shame, really. Shapiro's version, however, did not do as well as hoped, reaching only no. By the time she was in her late teens, Shapiro's career as a pop singer was on the wane. With the new wave of beat music and newer female singers such as Dusty Springfield , Cilla Black , Sandie Shaw , and Lulu , Shapiro appeared old-fashioned and emblematic of the pre-Beatles era of the s.

Her final cabaret show took place at Peterlee 's Senate Club on 6 May , where she announced she was giving up touring, as she was "travel-weary" and had had enough of "living out of a suitcase". Shapiro played the role of Nancy in Lionel Bart 's musical Oliver!