Gloria Scott UK Tour 2023

Gloria Scott, who released her first album in almost 50 years last September, will be touring the UK this year.

Dates announced so far include:

14 Mar - Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester

16 Mar - Cambridge Junction, Cambridge

17 Mar - 229, London

18 Mar - The Crossing Digbeth, Birmingham

Tickets available HERE

Scott got her start after being discovered by Sly Stewart (Sly & The Family Stone) in the early 60s whilst still at High School in San Francisco. She was born in Port Arthur, TX, on 27 Feb 1948 and raised in Houston before moving to San Francisco in her early teens 

Stewart wrote and produced her first recording in 1964 aged 18 as Gloria Scott & The Tonettes "I Taught Him Pts 1 & 2" released on Warner Bros. which sunk without trace. She then auditioned for The Ikettes but left soon afterwards as she didn't respect Ike Turner's strict discipline and fining regime. 

In the early 70s she met Barry White whilst performing as a backing singer who signed her on a 7 year contract and got her a deal with Casablanca and produced her debut album "What Am I Gonna Do". Unfortunately for Scott, at around the same time White's star was rising and he was having hit after hit and Casablanca, being a start-up label at the time, failed to promote the album and White wasn't around to help as his career rise was stratospheric, and that was just about that for Gloria after the album didn't sell well.

She did record another album with H.B. Barnum which never got released and then became a backing singer for Mary Wilson (The Supremes) on her self-titled debut album in 1979.

Fast forward to the 90s and she was living and singing in Guam (in the south Pacific) (where she lived for 8 years) when a tourist approached her saying that he knew her name and relayed the fact that her album, and one song from it in particular (which had only been released as single in Australia) was very popular on the UK/European rare soul scene. That song of course being "(A Case Of) Too Much Love Makin'" which was covered by Lisa Stansfield on her 1993 album "So Natural".

Then in the mid 2000s she was approached by Andrew McGuiness who promotes the Baltic Soul Weekenders in Germany to perform at the weekender, which she has done every year since 2008.

McGuiness learnt that she had some unreleased recordings in the can and encouraged her to release them (along with new material) on a new album which she did last year and "So Wonderful" was released on 30 Sep by Acid Jazz.

Below are three very short clips of an interview with Gloria from her YouTube channel posted in Nov '22.

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