In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award the highest accolade from Billboard. She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. With eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the 'Brits Champion of Champions'. To date, she has released six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). Her 1995 studio album, Medusa, includes cover versions of songs such as 'No More 'I Love You's '' and ' A Whiter Shade of Pale'. The same year, she performed ' Love Song for a Vampire' for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including ' Why' and ' Walking on Broken Glass'.
Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include ' There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)' and ' Here Comes the Rain Again'. Appearing in the 1983 music video for ' Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)' with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states, 'all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look defied the male gaze'. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Ann Lennox OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist.
