Joanna Gardner has been played on NTS in shows including Quiet Storm, featured first on 8 January 2017. Songs played include Pick Up The Pieces, Special Feelings and Watching You.

Joanna Gardner was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of a police force mechanic and a social and community director for a nursing concern. When Joanna was 16, she decided to start singing full-time. She formed her own group called Joanna's Band and they performed at her mom's nightclub where she also worked as a barmaid during the weekends.

While taking a part-time job at a jeweller's shop, Joanna met British music…