Christine Collister (born 28 December 1961) is a critically acclaimed award winning British folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She grew up on the Isle of Man and first came to public attention in 1986 as the singer of the theme song for the BBC's television adaptation of Fay Weldon's book The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.

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  • Christine Collister (born 28 December 1961) is a critically acclaimed award winning British folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She grew up on the Isle of Man and first came to public attention in 1986 as the singer of the theme song for the BBC's television adaptation of Fay Weldon's book The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. Prior to this in 1985 she became a permanent member of the Richard Thompson Band, and over a period of 4 years took in several world tours with Thompson, after which came seven years in partnership with singer, songwriter and guitar player, Clive Gregson, during which time they released five (5) critically acclaimed albums. Gregson is currently re-releasing these on CD, starting with their first and most successful album, Home and Away. Collister has released several successful and acclaimed solo albums since 1994, including Live, Blue Aconite, Dark Gift of Time and the compilation cd Songbird all for Fledgling Records, and An Equal Love and Into The Light for Topic Records. She has worked with the IoM based Stereo Scout Records, part of the Running Media management group with whom she has recorded the live album Home (2004) and her 20th Anniversary DVD XX (2005). In between she produced a vinyl record for award winning hi-fi manufacturer REGA called Love, a collection of mainly cover material, including Jim Croce, Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell songs as well as her version of "Hallelujah", also released on cd through Stereo Scout. Christine has toured and recorded with the all-female group Daphne’s Flight, the vocal ensemble Hell Bent Heaven Bound and Dave Kelly with the "Traveling Gentlemen", with live recordings of all these collaborations available. In 2008 apart from further touring of the UK with Kelly and "the TG's" Collister has been writing and recording in the UK and the USA, songs for her next album due 2009 . Christine Collister's homepage
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  • Christine Collister (born 28 December 1961) is a critically acclaimed award winning British folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She grew up on the Isle of Man and first came to public attention in 1986 as the singer of the theme song for the BBC's television adaptation of Fay Weldon's book The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.
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  • Christine Collister
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