Toyah

For over four decades Toyah Willcox has taken to the stage like no other — she has amassed thirteen top 40 singles, recorded over twenty-five albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays, acted in over twenty feature films and presented hundreds of television programmes.

She has won numerous awards and nominations from singing to writing to acting. In 2001, Toyah was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Central England in Birmingham. In 2018, Paul McCartney awarded Toyah a LIPA Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Companionship for Outstanding Achievement in music, drama, performance and media.

From punk princess to cult stage actress, Toyah Willcox is a uniquely gifted performer and an inextinguishable flame. Charismatic, outspoken and impossible to categorise, she is one of Britain's beloved household names – an award-winning rock legend as well as a much-loved stage/screen actress and music composer.

Toyah’s hit singles It's A Mystery, I Want to Be Free, Brave New World and platinum-selling albums Anthem and The Changeling confirmed her status as one of the most significant talents of the 1980s. In 1982 she won the Best Female Singer at the British Rock & Pop Awards, who went on to become The Brits.

On Christmas Eve 1981 Toyah's concert at Drury Lane Theatre Royal was broadcast live on BBC2 as The Old Grey Whistle Test to viewing figures of over 10 million. 2016 saw Toyah's first musical as co-composer open in the open air Scoop London rock musical production of Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment.

Toyah's autobiography Living Out Loud was released in 2000.

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