Christine Collister

Christine Collister is a Manx folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She was born and 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. As well as releasing several solo albums, Christine Collister has also been a backing vocalist in the Richard Thompson Band, one-half of the much-loved Gregson Collister partnership and a member of Daphne's Flight; she's also toured and provided backing vocals for an array of artists. In 2007, she moved back to the Isle of Man, where she was born, and it's the island's folklore that provides the fuel for her new album, Children of the Sea, released as a CD hardback illustrated book relating these stories with artwork by Manx artists Nicola Dixon, Amanda Barton and the Artful Dodgers group of oil painters, photographer Izzy Machado-Williams and, pulling it together, the internationally acclaimed David Suff.