BONNIE LEVER

Before forming Skylight, Geoff Skewes was a founding member of The Vibrants, one of the top pop acts of the 1960s. Skylight pulled together some brilliant musical talent. Of course there was Skewes on keyboards and Trevor Courtney on drums, who were joined by Greg Cook on guitar, Mike Clarke on bass, Sunil De Silva on percussion and a young singer named Bonnie Lever.

Skewes said, 'Someone knew her and said, "we know this little girl she’s only 16 or 17 but she’s got a real gravelly, tough soul voice like an African American female singer". 'So, we just had a jam with her and that was it, she was in the band. When Bonnie joined, we knew we had the lineup that worked for us and, consequently, we got a record contract with EMI.' 

The highlight for the band occurred in January of 1974 when the group secured a gig at Sunbury and found they were opening the festival. In 1978 tragedy struck when Bonnie was killed in a car accident aged only 23.

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