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Misty Oldland (born Michéle Oldland) is a British-Swiss singer songwriter. Her songs include A Fair Affair (Je T'Aime) and Got Me a Feeling, featuring soul singer Omar Lye-Fook.[1][2]

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Misty Oldland
Birth name	Michele Oldland
Also known as	Misty Oldland
Born	(1966-02-05) 5 February 1966 (age 56) London, England
Genres	Soul
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, record producer, author, artist
Instrument(s)	Vocals, piano, cello.
Website	https://www.ecodisco.com/

Oldland has had three singles in the UK Singles Chart and top 10 singles across Europe and Japan. Most notably in France her album Supernatural topped the charts for six months and in Iceland it was number one.

Oldland's songs have been covered by international artists Ophélie Winter (France), Kate Ceberano (Australia) and Bonnie Pink (Japan). Ceberano’s hit with song “Love Dimension” topped the Australian charts for 13 weeks.

Her other work includes presenting the 'Soul of MTV' and co-founding rare groove, soul and hip-hop club 'Slow Motion' with video director and former partner Jake Nava. The latter was listed in the ‘Top 10 British Night Clubs’ by The Sunday Times Magazine.

In 1998, Oldland went on a song writing hiatus to “The Roots camp” in Philadelphia, including participating in their NYC open mic jams alongside influencing artists such as Common, De la Soul & Q Tip.

Whilst there she was asked by “Mushroom” aka Andrew Vowles, formerly of Massive attack to join a new ‘super group’ he was putting together with legendary house singer Robert Owens, producer Mike Timothy and gospel singer Saron Cherry.

In 2006 she was named 'A Woman of Achievement' by the Woman of The Year organisation for self-releasing her album 'Forest Soul'.

The record sampled the sounds of endangered animals and featured musical collaborations with co-producer Joe Dworniak and British artists Roachford, Cleveland Watkiss, Tunde Jegede, Faye Simpson, Nikki Brown, Glen Nightingale and HKB Finn.

Created to raise awareness for rainforest conservation, ‘Forest Soul’ was the first carbon neutral CD sleeve to use vegetable ink, a waterless printing method as well be packaged in the first 100% recycled LP sleeve. Oldland 's single Orange Fox came in a 'sing-along' book for children with animated video.

Oldland credits the record’s success to Dame Anita Roddick MBE and Gordon Roddick of The Body Shop Foundation, who mentored her in ethical business and invested in ‘Forest Soul’.

Oldland contributed a chapter on the music business for Anita's book A Revolution in Kindness and is developing a multi-media conservationists series for children called 'The Golden Seed'.

In between writing and composing, Oldland works behind the scenes to create campaigns with NGO's and environmental activists. She was part of the original think tank behind the creation of 38 Degrees and has collaborated with the Green Party, Greenpeace, Stop Ecocide, The Ecologist, Polly Higgins, Tamsin Omond, The Inga Foundation and Climate Rush.

Misty’s French Swiss ancestral heritage includes Italian, North African and Spanish. Her maternal grandparents belong to two entrepreneurial Swiss families : the Seiler hoteliers of Zermatt, founded by Alexander Seiler and the Bonvin wine growers of Sion.

Discography

Albums

• 1994 – Supernatural – Columbia
• 1997 – Luminous – Epic/Sony
• 2006 – "Forest Soul" – Mistic Discs.

Singles

• 1993 – "Got Me a Feeling" – UK No. 59
• 1994 – "A Fair Affair (Je T'Aime)" – UK No. 49
• 1994 – "I Wrote You a Song" – UK No. 73
• 1994 – "Groove Eternity"
• 2003 – "Orange Fox"[3]

References

External links

• Official website

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