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Inspired by the smooth, jazzy grooves that typified the 1980s British soul scene, Yorkshire's Ten Millennia have built a reputation for funky, melodic, pop singalongs that draw comparisons with the likes of Sade, Jamiroquai and ABC. The band formed when singer Derek Edwards was diagnosed was Parkinson's disease and decided to give music a final shot by placing an advert in a local shop asking for "ageing rockers required to form a band". It led to him joining up with keyboard player Wayne Pollock (who had toured with Take That and Corinne Bailey Rae), bass player Colin Sutton, saxophonist Russell Henderson and drummer Julian Richer, and they toured around the UK for two years, before illness forced Edwards to retire, with Rosie Lowe taking over as lead singer. Lowe had been a talented runner in her youth and spent 20 years modelling, before first joining the group as a backing singer as they started out in small pubs in their hometown of Pocklington. Renaming themselves Ten Millennia in 2016 as a nod to North Yorkshire's ancient history, their 2017 self-titled debut album was full of breezy, funky slow jams with Lowe's soft, melting voice at the fore, and the band went on to support The Corrs, Tony Hadley and Jools Holland on tour and earn a place on the BBC Radio 2 playlist. With hundreds of gigs under their belt, they returned in 2018 with second album 'Love Won't Wait' continuing to merge vintage Motown hooks and funkadelic swagger into blissful, swooning, summer soundtracks.
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