Vanessa first heard the Andrews Sisters whilst working in a 1940s tearoom as a teenager, and she has loved them ever since.

At 18 she got sidetracked by drama school, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and by subsequent acting jobs, but singing always remained a huge part of her life, so she went to the Royal Academy of Music to study musical theatre. Combining the acting and singing equally has made for a colourful career - from the Rocky Horror Show to the Caucasian Chalk Circle, with bits of TV and film thrown in for good measure.

She finally decided to realise her fantasy of close-harmony singing about love and bugles, and founded the Marjorie Belles, which has been a dream come true.

Vanessa would like to make special reference to the real Marjorie, and honorary Belle, her late Granny, who would have laughed upon hearing that we used her name!

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