“Aged 16 I wanted to be a printer like my father, my grandfather and his father before him,” she tweeted., external last month.
“I was met with a ‘No. Closed Shop. No women’.”
“[I’m] 62 this month and I’ve just completed my first degree,” she continued. “Fine Art Printmaking. Born to make a mess and learnt to clean it up.”
Essex-born Moyet, known for her soulful, bluesy singing voice on tracks such as Invisible and All Cried Out, was made an MBE for services to music by the Princess Royal at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle last year.
She is not the only star to latterly swap the hit-making studio for the lecture hall, as her fellow Brit Award-winner Adele announced last year she intended to study for an English Literature degree once her 2022-2023 Las Vegas residency was complete.
