BIOGRAPHY
Bridget St John was born Bridget Anne Hobbs on 4 October 1946 in East Molesey, Surrey, into a musical family of accomplished pianists. She studied viola before taking up guitar, and while at Sheffield University fell in with the emerging British folk scene, befriending guitarist John Martyn. After graduating in 1968, she made her first demo with Martyn's help and was soon recording for John Peel's BBC programme Night Ride. Peel and Clive Selwood signed her as one of the first artists to their Dandelion label, where she released three albums between 1969 and the early 1970s: Ask Me No Questions, Songs for the Gentle Man, and Thank You For…. Songs for the Gentle Man brought her cult status, and in 1974 Melody Maker readers voted her the fifth most popular female singer. Her fourth album, Jumblequeen, came out on Chrysalis in 1974. She moved to New York in 1976, largely retired from performing, and re-emerged with sporadic shows in the mid-1990s.