Bermuda-born Pinky Steede knew from her earliest days on her sunshine island home that she was going to be a singer – the only career she cared about. Hard work and one or two lucky breaks brought her the professional success she longed for, and she sang for audiences in theatres and luxury hotels across the Caribbean, Britain, Hong Kong and Portugal during a career which has lasted from her teens right into her seventies. She has shared a stage with some of the great names of showbiz, including Shirley Bassey, Elaine Page, Kenny Rogers, Sammy Davis Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Bette Midler and Aretha Franklin. Now settled in Portugal, she has sung in most of the large casinos and hotels in the Algarve. In 2010 she was inducted into the Bermuda Music Hall of Fame. This is her story.
“I always knew I wanted to be a star. By the time I was two years old I was driving everyone in the family mad, singing and dancing wildly about the house…”

“Sometimes there were only two and sometimes there were four, but usually there were three of us…” During his years as a schoolboy, a student and then a young dentist in the 1960s, John Furniss and his friends took every opportunity to escape from their work and studies and go climbing together, first in England, Wales and Scotland and later tackling the more challenging peaks of the Austrian and German Alps. Adding the vertical metres together, during that fondly-remembered decade they scaled more than 13 times the height of Mount Everest. They were years of adventure and daring, featuring occasional narrow squeaks and some amusing brushes with the local language and culture. Most of all they were years of comradeship, which John still remembers with great fondness more than forty years on.