Singer-Songwriter. She wrote/co-wrote more than 100 singles, had a number of top 10 singles, produced more than 20 albums, won two Ivor Nevello awards, represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, and later turned her hand to acting. She studied classical music with a tutor from the Royal Academy of Music and attended South Hampstead High School, followed by Hornsey College of Art, now part of Middlesex University. After initially writing a number of hits for other artists, she was, at the age of 18, contracted to ATV-Kirshner music publishing (now Sony Music Publishing), where she joined a group of professional songwriters. In 1972 she wrote the song "Sugar Me" for Peter Noone, but her boyfriend at the time, Dudley Moore, suggested that she take a demo version to Gordon Mills, who urged her to record it herself. Although she had recorded demo versions of her songs before, she was initially a reluctant performer but did release it on his MAM record label. This was under the surname De Paul, taking the De from her mother's maiden name, De Groot, and Paul, her father's middle name. "Sugar Me" rapidly reached the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart as well as the top of the singles charts in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Belgium. She continued this success with a run of hit singles and four albums. In 1977 she represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Rock Bottom," which she had co-written with Mike Moran. In doing so, she made history by being the first female to perform her own composition at the Eurovision Song Contest, and although a favorite to win, she finished second. She was the first woman to win an Ivor Novello award for "Won't Somebody Dance With Me," a feat she repeated again in 1974 for the TV theme "No Honestly." In February 1974, she was voted top female singer in the UK music weekly Disc Readers Awards Poll. Whilst continuing to write a number of hits for other artists in the 70s and 80s, she was often seen on a variety of UK TV shows displaying her varied talents. In 1982 she eventually made her acting debut on stage in Iain Blair's thriller "Shriek!" at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, and in the following year, on television in Granada's "The Starlight Ballroom," when she played the lead female character, alongside Alvin Stardust. Her first panto appearance was, in 1982, as "Cinderella's Star Night," where she played Cinderella and Joanna Lumley played Prince Charming as part of an all-star cast to raise funds for The Bobath Centre held at the Prince Edward Theatre. In 1992 she released a self-defense video for women titled "Taking Control," and donated money to charities that supported battered women. She was also a supporter of animal rights. In March 2018, after her death in 2014, she was listed as one of the 65 iconic, influential women who had helped define the UK music industry from the 1950s by Annie Rew Shaw in "Women's Music News."