Mary Black
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Mary Black is an Irish singer. She was born on 23 May 1955, in Dublin, to a musical family. Her father had been a fiddler, her mother a singer, and her brothers have their own group. She sang in her family's group in her youth and her mother Patty had a song in her brothers' 1996 album, What A Time/Shay, Michael and Martin Black.
She went on to play in other groups including the traditional Irish band De Dannan from 1984-1986. After 1986 she had a successful solo career where she went on to try contemporary styles ranging from jazz to country and also releasing a duet album with singer/songwriter Kieran Goss. She was named "Best Female Artist" in the IRMA poll in 1987, 1988, 1992, 1994 and 1996[1].
She is married to Joe O'Reilly of Dara Records and they have three children, Conor, Danny and Roisin.
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[edit] Discography
- Mary Black (1983)
- Collected (1984)
- Without the Fanfare (1985)
- By the Time it Gets Dark (1987)
- No Frontiers (1989)
- Babes in the Wood (1991)
- The Collection (1992)
- The Holy Ground (1993)
- Circus (1995)
- Shine (1997)
- Speaking with the Angel (1999)
- The Best of Mary Black 1991-2001 & Hidden Harvest (2001)
- Mary Black Live (2003)
- Full Tide (2005)
[edit] Trivia
For a number of years, What Hi-Fi? magazine considered Black's voice to be so pure that it was used as an audiophile benchmark for comparing the sound quality of different high fidelity systems.
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