Biography

Julie Forsyth and Dominic Grant met for the first time on November 8th 1974. They both answered an ad in the NME music paper and auditioned for a new girl/boy group that was to be formed. The name of the group was to be 'Guys 'N' Dolls, there were three girls, Julie, Thereza Bazar & Martine Howard and three boys, Dominic, Paul Griggs & David Van Day. Their first single was released in March 1975 and called, 'There's a Whole Lotta Loving'. The single was a huge hit and the Group toured the World and had massive success. David and Thereza moved on to form 'Dollar' while the others continued to work with most of the greats in the recording industry where the highlight had to be supporting Frank Sinatra at the New Festival Hall.

In 1980 Dominic & Julie had their first child, a Son, Luke. So he was on tour with them from the age of two weeks old!

They decided to leave England and move to Holland to concentrate all their efforts into making records and touring Europe, their biggest hit's during this period were, 'Your my World' and 'You don't have to say you love me' . In 1981 Martine Howard left the group and for a while Julie's Sister, Laura, stepped in, until they found a permanent replacement who turned out to be Rosie Hetherington, during the next six or so years they recorded several Albums and countless hit singles such as 'Broken dreams', 'I got the fire in me’, 'I heard it on the radio', 'I feel like crying'....ect..... ect..... The group had been constantly touring but in 1985 Paul & Rosie decided they wanted to stop, this was a sad time as they were all good friends but life goes on and Julie & Dominic decided to go it alone as a duo. Their friend and Producer at the time, Richard De Bois, suggested to them that they should call themselves by their names (as people knew them in the Group as Dominic Grant and Julie Forsyth), so 'Grant & Forsyth' was born!

The first couple of years were a struggle but in 1988 things changed & proved to be a defining year for Grant and Forsyth when they made their first mark on the charts with a hit recording of the Walker Brother's classic 'The sun ain't gonna shine anymore', mixed with The Ronettes 'Be my Baby'. Julie also found success as a song writer, writing a song called 'Go' which came second in the Eurovision Song Contest, sung by Scott Fitzgerald, losing by one point to the Swiss entry, sung by the then unknown Celine Dion.

1990 was the turning point. The first album,’ Country Love Songs' went platinum in Holland; this huge success was followed by a string of 'Country Love Song' albums all of which earned gold & platinum status. To date, Julie & Dominic have sold over 3 million albums in Holland alone making them the most successful husband and wife team in Europe. During this period they had the pleasure of meeting up with Johnny Cash.

In 1991 they where blessed with their second child, a little girl, Sophia ...... another one for the touring bus!

They have embarked on many ‘Theatre’ tours, which is, they say, their ‘favourite thing to do’, and also perform for numerous corporate events. In 2004 EMI released a comprehensive 3CD retrospective entitled 'The Platinum Country Collection', they also had their first commercial DVD release.

The duo then took time out while Dominic concentrated on his Art. He has become a very successful Sculptor, (if you want to view Dominic's work you can go to www.dominicgrant.com ).He exhibits in Mayfair London, Portofino & Monaco.

In 2007 they met up again with Nikki Konings, who played a major role in the success of the ‘Country love Songs’ phenomenon, as they had had so much fun in the past, while working extremly hard, they decided to work together again as a team.

SO..........
Their new single ‘Love Grows’ is out on the 25th August.

They will be embarking on a ‘Christmas’, Theatre tour from the 9th December….

AND ….. are recording a new album which will be released in March 2009…

ALL….. while filming an, ‘At home with Grant & Forsyth’ T.V.series