This site provides Anita’s thousands of Fans with an overview of her glittering career and up-dates on current activities. The range of her accomplishments will possibly come as a surprise to many. She holds many gold and silver disc trophies for international chart successes and a double gold for two million plus sales of her classic hit "Just Loving You", prompting Sony to release a sell-out 52 track retrospective. Anita is currently recording three new albums and preparing a further series of Albums for Right Records, with "The Essential Anita Harris" released May 2003.
She was born on June 3rd 1942 in Midsomer Norton in Somerset. After winning a talent contest when she was only three, Anita developed a skill for playing the piano and also attended the Hampshire School of Drama. She then trained to be a dancer, and, while in her teens, performed in Europe and in the chorus at the El Rancho in Las Vegas.

On returning to Britain, she sang with the Granadiers on television, alongside a young Gerry Dorsey, who subsequently found fame and fortune after changing his name to Engelbert Humperdinck.

In 1961, whilst working with the Cliff Adams Singers, she came to the notice of composer and bandleader John Barry who offered her a contract with his organization. Her first record was a Lionel Bart song, I Haven't Got You, on which she was accompanied by the John Barry Orchestra. During the sixties she worked extensively on radio, television, and in clubs and theatres throughout the UK, including two seasons at the London Palladium, Anita won the Gold Medal for Britain at the San Remo Song Festival, She then had “Trains and Boats and Planes” in the carts and met Dusty Springfield on “Top of The Pops”. Dusty introduced Anita to Tom Springfield who wrote “Just Loving You” for Anita. The song reached number 2 in the U.K Charts and went to Number 1 in Australia and New Zealand, eventually selling in excess of 2 million copies. The Double Gold Disc Award was presented to Anita by Peter Murray and CBS Records on the Saturday Night BBC network television Show “Saturday Night at The Mill”. BBC put up an outdoor ice rink for the occasion and Anita celebrated by skating a solo ice ballet, choreographed by Denise Shaune to “Just Loving You”. This was accompanied live by Kenny Ball’s Band who performed on the rink-side. “Just Loving You” was followed by Anita skating and singing a rorty version of “Singular Sensation” from ‘Chorus line’ which brought the audience to their feet. “Just Loving You” went on to become the longest U.K chart runner, one and a quarter years from 67-68 in which it went in and out of the 20 and at one point, Anita became the first U/K girl to have two records in the top twenty at the same time – “Just Loving You” and “The Playground”.. “Just Loving You” became the biggest selling single of the yearoutselling such other timeless classics as Whiter Shade of Pale, Something Stupid, and Puppet on a String.

Anita has starred frequently at the London Palladium and other major venues in the UK. In France her open-air concert performances at the Cannes Palm Beach Casino earned her the soubriquet "The flaming Comet". Her first award participation was "The Big Band Show" with the Ted Heath Band, which won the Golden Rose of Montreaux for BBC Television.

In the Advertising field her endorsement of Slendertone Body Toning has made the brand the market leader with multi-million sales, She has also endorsed and appeared for Ford, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Mazda Cars, Bisto, Woolworths, and other multi-nationals in commercials and trade concerts.

Fact File: Anita has performed for Leonard Bernstein, singing his "Mass" at the Barbican Bernstein Concert. She has recorded with leading British Musicians and orchestras, from The New World Symphony Orchestra and The BBC Concert Orchestra to the Jazz trios of Dudley Moore and Kenny Clayton. Concerts and cabaret, have taken her across the world from Vegas to Rio, from Cannes to The Hague. She has performed seven Royal Command Performances and her international record sales are in the multi-millions, Anita is a Songwriter in her own right, a celebrity columnist, a published critic and a hit Cookery Book authoress.

Her work with Thames Television is famous, from her seven year teaming with David Nixon on "Magic Box" to her own top rated Childrens Television musical sit-com "Jumbleland" which achieved the highest Jictar audience ratings for a children's television programme and a citation and Gold Award from the Canadian Government for "its exceptional quality, ingenuity and the values it set for children".

From 1999 to 2003 Anita's video and book "Anita Harris-Fizzical!" charted at number one. In 2001 she returned to the Summer Record Charts top five with "Trains & Boats & Planes" on"The Best of Bacharach" which remained in the charts through 2002.

Anita Harris remains one of the U.K's most popular theatre Actresses and a best loved entertainer both with the public and in her profession. She is a multi-award winning Singer, Actress and Entertainer. Among her trophies are awards for "Performer of the Year", "Concert and Cabaret Performer of the Year" and she has topped the TV Times reader's poll as "Most popular female Television entertainer".

In October 2001 Anita received the BACS Gold Badge career tribute from the Academy of Composers and Songwriters. In February 2003 she was chosen as the first woman President of the Heritage Foundation for The Arts and Entertainments. Under her Presidency, first tributes at The Grosvenor House to Buddy Holly and John Lennon were innovative theatre pieces and an outstanding success. Anita is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

She is also much in demand as an after dinner speaker.In 2001 she was chosen by the Water Rats Comic Society to make the Grosvenor House signature speech on behalf of the Ladies, returning a year later in November 2002 to perform at the Water Rats Christmas Ball.