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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: People from Lakenheath, People from Mildenhall, Suffolk, People from Newmarket, Suffolk, Chris Cunningham, W. T. Tutte, Dina Carroll, Frankie Dettori, Harry George Smart, Alan Brazil, Jeremy Gable, James Wentworth Day, AEthelthryth, Lee Johnson, Gerald Livock, Phil Thornalley, Neil Wiseman, Philip Affleck, Cyril Joe Barton, Pelham Aldrich, Acer Nethercott, Goldie Sayers, Grey Cooper, Richard Courtney, Charles Bucke, Thomas Elsdon Ashford, Ernest Hall, Richard Gardiner, Ross Edgar, Andy Sutcliffe, Richard Balfe, Sophia Duleep Singh, Thomas Benyon, Merika Coleman, Keith Vaughn, Alan Reynolds, Paul Marak, Ken Wright, Tarick Johnson, Francis Buckle. Excerpt: Dina Carroll (born Geraldine Carroll, 21 August 1968, Newmarket, Suffolk) is an English singer of Scottish and African American descent who had a string of hits from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Carroll started singing at age of five, primarily at home with her sister. Despite the lack of formal vocal coaching, in 1981, at the age of thirteen, she won a local Cambridgeshire talent competition, with her rendition of Barbra Streisand's "Woman in Love." After leaving school, she worked in various jobs, including a one-day stint as a chambermaid in a Cambridge hotel in 1985. At the age of sixteen, she was signed to the dance music record label Streetwave, located in London. Carroll moved to West London and recorded two singles, "Set It Off" and "One Nation," in the mid 1980s, credited to a non-existent group, Masquerade. After six unproductive months, she left Streetwave. In 1989, Carroll secured a recording contract with Jive/Zomba and released a number of singles in 1989 and 1990. Of particular note was her cover of Dionne Warwick's classic "Walk On By," co-produced by The Pasadenas who also provided vocal arrangement and backing vocals. Although "Walk On By" did..
