Pamela Windo was born in Brighton, England. She left school at sixteen to travel, first to Paris and Berlin, then on to Tunisia, where she worked at the U.S. Embassy and as radio operator on the construction of a dam. Back in England, after a first marriage and divorce, and with two young sons, she met and married childhood friend Gary Windo, a gifted saxophone player who'd just come back from New York, and who encouraged her to play piano. Soon, she found herself alongside musicians like Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt, Brotherhood of Breath's Louis Moholo, and Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, with whom