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One Voice (Grace Kennedy album)

1981 studio album by Grace Kennedy

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ126052725 ↗
Source-derived summary

One Voice is the fourth album of the British singer Grace Kennedy. It was released in 1981, under the label BBC Records. Music from this album featured in the Saturday night prime time entertainment show, The Grace Kennedy Show, which ran for six series between 1981–1983 and won a BAFTA award.

The tracks were orchestrated by John Coleman and produced by Philip Swern. The album was digitalized in 2021.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “One Voice (Grace Kennedy album)” as 1981 studio album by Grace Kennedy. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1983, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Voice, Grace and Kennedy can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1981 studio album by Grace Kennedy. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q126052725. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981, 1983 and 2021.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Tracing reception history
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “One Voice (Grace Kennedy album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow One Voice (Grace Kennedy album) primary sources, One Voice (Grace Kennedy album) archive and Voice research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “One Voice (Grace Kennedy album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.