1970s She helped form Odyssey, a short-lived South African disco act consisting of her, Malie Kelly, and guitarist Mike Pilot.
1980–1999 During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Stockley worked as a
session singer for the UK songwriting and production trio
Stock Aitken Waterman and appeared on tracks by
Kylie Minogue,
Jason Donovan and
Sonia. Alongside fellow session singer Mae McKenna, Stockley is credited with being partly responsible for the distinctive Stock, Aitken and Waterman sound of the 1980s. Stockley provided backing vocals for the United Kingdom's
Eurovision Song Contest entry on several occasions, most notably with
Emma in
1990 and for
Katrina and the Waves when they won in Dublin in
1997. In 1991, Stockley became a part of the dance music group
Praise whose single "Only You" reached number three in the
UK singles chart. A year later, the band, with Stockley on vocals, released its second single, "Dream On". A third single was released entitled: "Easy Way Out". The band was due to start touring, when the entire department of the record label was let go. The band decided to call it a day. In 1995, she worked with
Karl Jenkins as the multi-layered vocalist on his first
Songs of Sanctuary release, which began as a
Delta Air Lines television commercial and was later released on the album
Pure Moods. Stockley's song "Perfect Day," written by
Colin Towns and also known as "Theme for the Lake District", was used as the theme song for the
BBC children's programme
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, which ran from 1992 to 1998. She has also appeared as a singer in on episode of
Our Friends In The North (1996) and on several
BBC Schools programmes, most notably
Look and Read and contributed to many film soundtracks, namely,
Lord of the Rings,
Autumn in New York,
Great Expectations,
Robroy,
Skin,
Beloved, and
One Night Stand.
2000s in 2006|alt=Stockley singing into a microphone onstage Stockley is featured as a member of the choir for
The Fellowship of the Ring. Her cover version of the
Rose Royce song "
Wishing on a Star", feature on
The 10th Kingdom. In 2004,
Yamaha released
Vocaloid software that allows people to synthetically create background vocals. One of the three available voices from the studio
Zero-G released for the first edition of the software is based on material recorded by Stockley. In December 2006, Stockley contributed as a solo vocalist and as a co-vocalist with
Mike Oldfield at the German
Night of the Proms tour, consisting of 18 concerts. She also released her third solo album, a collection of rearranged classical standards entitled
Eternal, in 2006. In 2006, she joined Richard Gannaway and
Jay Oliver as a primary member of the
world music group AO Music (also known as AO). She first appeared on the album "Twirl", released 17 February 2009 on the group's indie label Arcturian Gate (debuted on international music charts at No. 5).
Twirl contained the song "On Jai Ya"; a piece composed as
Olympic theme music (2008) at the request of the
Beijing Olympic Committee. Ultimately, the song was not selected and later chosen as soundtrack music for the 2011 promotional trailer "Project Peace on Earth".
Twirl was released to an international audience in 2009 with Stockley as the group's main vocalist. In June 2009, she, Richard Gannaway and
Jay Oliver composed and produced the song "Gaiya Lo Mane" as theme music for the
Give Kids the World Foundation. In February 2011 Arcturian Gate released the AO Music's third album
...and Love Rages on!, where Stockley's voice is joined by children's choral ensembles from
Beijing,
Tbilisi,
Johannesburg,
Asheville and
Orlando (charted at No. 2 internationally and awarded
Zone Music Reporter's "Best World Album of 2011"). With the release of the song "...and Love Rages on!", Stockley and AO Music aligned with
HavServe under
GlobalGiving to build sustainable villages for children in
Haiti who were displaced by an earthquake in 2010. On 28 March 2011, she was invited to give a private performance for the
Education Without Borders International conference in
Dubai. In March 2013 the AO Music group released
Hokulea, which charted at No. 3 internationally and sustained top 20 ranking (
Zone Music Reporter) for five consecutive months. With the release of
Hokulea AO Music established themselves as 100% non-profit through AO Foundation International, supporting several worldwide organizations that attend to disadvantaged children. Stockley was also credited as the album's
co-producer. ==Personal life==