Vashti Bunyan
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Jennifer Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. She began her career in the mid-1960s and released a debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970. The album sold very few copies and Bunyan,
Bunyan performing at the Summer Sundae festival in Leicester in 2006
Vashti
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Vashti was a queen of Persia and the first wife of Persian king Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther, a book included within the Tanakh and the Old Testament which is read on the Jewish holiday of Purim. S
Vashti Bunyan
…told that she was named after a boat that had belonged to her father. 'Vashti' was a nickname for her mother, inspired by the Biblical Persian queen Vashti. She has been said to be descended from John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, but she has denied this. The family moved to London when she was…
A drawing of Vashti from an illustrated scroll of the Book of Esther produced in the city of Ferrara in 1617. From the collections of the National Library of Israel
The wrath of Ahasuerus (anonymous), Rijksmuseum