Mari Wilson

Injecting the upbeat pop stylings and fashion accouterments of the late 1950s and early '60s into the early '80s and beyond, Mari Wilson rose to fame with the Top Ten U.K. hit "Just What I Always Wanted" from her Top 30-charting debut album, 1983's Showpeople. Eight years later, the follow-up, The Rhythm Romance, found Wilson branching into more refined jazz standards alongside pop covers and original material. She later became known for the theme song to the 2000s British sitcom Coupling ("Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps," a Cuban song originally recorded in English by Desi Arnaz &...