Yvonne Keeley is a Dutch

Netherlands

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 pop music

Pop music

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 singer. She is the sister of Patricia Paay

Patricia Paay

Patricia Anglaia Margareth Paaij , best known as Patricia Paay, is a Dutch singer, radio host, glamour model and television personality. In the Netherlands, she is well known for her musical career, which spans over four decades...

. Her surname is often misspelt as Keely.

She began her career as a session singer

Session musician

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 in the music industry in London

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. She was the girlfriend of Steve Harley

Steve Harley

Steve Harley is an English singer and songwriter, best known for his work with the 1970s rock group Cockney Rebel, with whom he still occasionally tours .-Biography:As a child, Harley suffered from polio, spending four years in hospital up to the...

 of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

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, and sang on the 1975 hit, "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

"Make Me Smile " is a song written and recorded by Steve Harley. It was originally recorded by his band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel on the album The Best Years of Our Lives and released as a single in 1975...

". She also worked with Madeline Bell

Madeline Bell

Madeline Bell is an American soul singer, who became famous as a performer in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, having arrived from the US in the gospel show Black Nativity in 1962, with vocal group The Bradford Singers.-Career:She worked as a session singer, most notably backing for Dusty...

 and Vicki Brown

Vicki Brown (singer)

Vicki Brown was an English pop, rock and contemporary classical singer. She is best known for her membership of both The Vernons Girls and The Breakaways, and as one of the UK's most enduring backing vocalists...

.

Most notably she performed as a duet

Duet (music)

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 with Scott Fitzgerald

Scott Fitzgerald (singer)

Scott Fitzgerald is a Scottish singer, who had his biggest success in the 1970s and later represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest.-Career:...

 on the song "If I Had Words

If I Had Words

"If I Had Words" was a 1977 UK hit song performed by Scott Fitzgerald as a duet with Yvonne Keeley. It reached number 3 in the UK charts and number 24 in the Australian charts in 1978. It sold more than one million copies...

", which reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 in 1978. It was also a hit

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 in Australia

Australia

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, New Zealand

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, Belgium

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, the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 and Scandinavia

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 and sold more than a million copies.

Keeley was part of the group the Star Sisters

Star Sisters

The Star Sisters were a female Dance/Pop trio from The Netherlands that were very popular during the 1980s, most notably as the ladies who performed the chorus as members of Jaap Eggermont's studio act Stars on 45 and in a spinoff in which they performed as The Andrews Sisters in a medley that...

 which was popular in the Netherlands during the 1980s.

She currently works as radio

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 presenter

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 with the Dutch regional broadcaster Radio Rijnmond.