Portrait of the artist: Sharleen Spiteri, musician

'I've come under pressure to be "sexy". They always want you lying back on the sofa, showing a bit of leg'What got you started?The week before my 18th birthday, I was DJing in a club in Glasgow. A guy I vaguely knew came over and said, "I hear you can sing." With that terrible arrogance of youth, I said, "Yeah, and?" His name was Jerry [McElhone]; I started writing songs with him and his brother Johnny – that was the start of Texas.What was your big breakthrough?We put out our first single, I ...

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