Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr on April 27, 1959, Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish-American pop singer. Easton chalked up a top 10 hit in both the US and UK with the Academy Award-nominated James Bond film theme For Your Eyes Only. Sheena’s US success culminated in her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1981.
The song was later nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe in 1982. Easton also made Bond film history as the first (and, to date, only) artist to perform the theme song on-screen during the opening title sequence. Madonna would later one-up Easton by not only singing a Bond film theme song, but also taking a cameo role, in the film Die Another Day in 2002, though she remained uncredited. The popularity of the song “For Your Eyes Only”, and Easton’s film appearance, are credited with establishing the artist as a star in North America; she had already been popular in her native UK for at least a year prior to the film’s release.