FROM local girl to 80s pop-star, Lowri-Ann Richards could also be described as a chameleon.

The Criccieth woman who was born and brought up there on a dairy farm has cultivated a number of looks and sounds over the course of her career.

She sang with Tight Fit, Visage and Shock, and appeared at Wembley and on Top of the Pops, helped pioneer the early 80s New Romantic / Blitz kids movement with Boy George, Steve Strange and Spandau Ballet, and wrote and starred in a show about the early 80s, performing as an ‘alter-ego’ called LaLa Shockette.

Now back in Criccieth, Lowri-Ann is part of a new show called Two Blondes and a Harp.

Looking back at how her career began, Lowri-Ann said: “I went to school in Cricceith before training as an actress in London at Webber Douglas and the Central School of Speech & Drama.

“I’ve been an actress and a singer for over 35 years and, as for my age now... I’m old enough to know better.”

She went on: “I was an ‘80s pop star, singing with Shock and Visage, and I was an early member of the band Tight Fit.

“I appeared at Wembley and did Top of the Pops, etc., etc.

“As an actress I’ve done lots of theatre including shows at the Royal National Theatre and, more recently, a one-woman 5* show called ‘Whatever Happened to LaLa Shockette?’ which I performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and in the West End.

“Films... I was in ‘Breaking Glass’ and also appeared alongside Paul McCartney in his film, ‘Give My Regards to Broadstreet’.

“I’ve also been in all the main Welsh soaps including Pobol y Cwm and Rownd a Rownd.”

Lowri-Ann’s father, Hywel Richards, was High Sheriff of Gwynedd, and her sister, Morfudd Richards, runs Greenberry (restaurant) in Primrose Hill, London.

“My daughter, Daisy Bell, 21, is a singer/ songwriter who has supported Toploader and my son, Johnny Jacobsen, 18 studies songwriting at a music college in Kilburn, north London,” she explained.

“My husband, Michael, works in the golf industry and my late father in law, Jock Jacobsen, discovered and then managed the complete career of Max Bygraves!”

And Lowri-Ann’s own career continues to flourish.

‘Whatever Happened to LaLa Shockette?’ has recently been in a line up alongside some of Spandau Ballet in London’s Cafe de Paris.

Read the full interview in this week’s north editions of the Cambrian News, in shops now, or available by clicking the digital editions link above