Her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, 'I Only Want to Be with You'. 1960-1963 The Springfields became the UK's top selling act. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters, and two years later formed a pop-folk vocal trio, The Springfields, with her brother Tom Springfield and Tim Field. īorn in West Hampstead to a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home.

Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, as well as her flamboyant performances made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time.

She is a member of the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. With her distinctive sensual mezzo-soprano sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the UK Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

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