Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, born April 16, 1939, known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career spanned from the late 1950s to the 1990s. Springfield was born in West Hampstead, London, into a family that loved music, so she learned to sing at home. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters, and two years later formed a pop-folk vocal trio, The Springfields, with her brother Tom Springfield and Tim Feild. They became the UK's best-selling act.
Her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit "I Only Want to Be with You." Among the hits that followed were ''Wishin' and Hopin'' (1964), "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (1964), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968). With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a leading singer of blue-eyed soul and at her peak was one of the most successful British female artists, with six top 20 singles in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen in the UK Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the UK Music Hall of Fame. International polls have named Springfield one of the best female rock artists of all time. With her appearance she was an icon of the Swinging Sixties.