Career
Evans career began as a singer with Waldini"s Gypsy Band in the mid-1950s, mainly doing summer seasons at United Kingdom holiday resorts such as Llandudno. She released her first singles in 1958 on the label. She entered the United Kingdom Chart in 1960 at Number.
26 with the song "The Big Hurt", but her biggest hit was 1962"s "Like I Do", which peaked at Number.
In 1963, Evans competed in the British trials for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Pick the Petals", but came in third. Ronnie Carroll represented the United Kingdom that year in the competition.
She continued releasing singles through the 1960s, as well as one European Parliament (1963"s Melancholy Maine, on ) and an album, Like I Do, also on Oriole (1963). Evans owned the Maureen Evans Theatre School in West Grove, Cardiff, which taught children aged 6 to 18 years old, how to sing, dance and act, from 1998 to 2010 (when the school shut down).
In 2014, "Stage Door Records" released Maureen Evans - The Collection as a digital download on Amazon and iTunes.
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