Before Lennox emerged as a solo artist, she already had released many albums and singles as part of the duo Eurythmics, with one further Eurythmics album, Peace, during her solo phase.

Annie Lennox (born December 25, 1954) is a Scottish musician, vocalist and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by members of the rock industry on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999. Both as a solo artist and with Eurythmics, Lennox has sold over 80 million Read more...

Both Lennox's parents died of cancer. Her first marriage from 1984 to 1985 was to Radha Raman. From 1988 to 2000, she was married to Israeli film and record producer Uri Fruchtmann, with whom she had two daughters, Lola and Tali. Fruchtmann was also the father to Lennox's first child, Daniel, who was stillborn in December 1988.