Christine was born in Leeds on 11 May 1948. After being placed second in a Manchester talent contest, she was offered a contract by Oriole Records, and her first record, Oh My, was released in 1962 (when she was just 13), quickly followed by a cover of Johnny Crawford’s Your Nose Is Gonna Grow.
Neither single sold well, and a similar fate unfortunately befell her excellent third single Whisper Wonderful Words (which borrowed its melody line from Bizet’s opera Carmen).
In 1964, she achieved a minor hit in America with Tell Me Mama which reached #89 on the Hot 100.
Unfortunately, Oriole went bankrupt in 1965 and Quaite signed with manager Bunny Lewis who negotiated a deal with the New York-based Laurie Records and recorded the Bobby Goldsboro song, If You’ve Got A Heart but the company decided not to release it (although it did find a home in the UK via EMI’s Stateside label that mainly issued American artists).
Christine recorded one further single, the Bacharach and David composition, Long After Tonight Is All Over before calling it a day by getting married and starting a family.
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