Margaret Urlich

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Margaret Urlich

Background information
Origin	New Zealand
Years active	1985-present
Website	http://www.margaret-urlich.com

Margaret Urlich (born in New Zealand) is a musician.

Margaret Ulrich began her career as the vocalist for the new-wave group Peking Man, which released its biggest hit, "Room That Echoes", in 1985. Later she was a member of an all-girl pop group in New Zealand called When The Cat's Away. Urlich moved to Australia during the late 1980s and released her solo debut album Safety In Numbers in 1989 which went triple platinum in Australia. Later albums didn't prove to be as successful.

In 1990 Margaret Urlich, previous mostly unknown outside of New Zealand, was the backing vocals for Australian artist Daryl Braithwaite, on his second album "Rise" released late 1990. The song she appeared in was the Rickie Lee Jones ballad "The Horses". The Video clip featured Braithwaite singing on a beach, with a model (riding a horse), lip syncing Urlich's voice.

In March 1991 she returned to the studio to commence pre-production for her second album, with English Writer/Producer Robyn Smith, the man behind her highly successful debut. By mid year, Urlich and Smith had entered Sydney's 301 Studios to record their two songs, plus a third track written by Smith and Barry Blue. The same team had been responsible for two of the best tracks on Safety in Numbers ("Escaping" and "Guilty People"), and their latest offering "Boy in the Moon", proved pivotal to the sound of the new album. Other tracks were collected by travelling all over the world. First to London to co-write with celebrated writers like Rob Fisher with whom she wrote the album's title track "Chameleon Dreams". On to Los Angeles, where she met up with Grammy Award winning Writer/Producer Ian Prince, and with whom she wrote two songs for the album and he produced four tracks for Chameleon dreams. Back in London again, where Margaret co-wrote with Simon Law and Tony Swain before completing the project with three tracks produced by Tony. The resulting Chameleon Dreams has achieved Platinum Status in Australia and New Zealand.

She spent much of 1994 living back in New Zealand and appearing in a major concert production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

For her third album, "The Deepest Blue" she returned to her long standing partnership with British Writer/Producer Robyn Smith. Smith and Urlich co-wrote all but two of the tracks on The Deepest Blue.

In 1998, her contract with Sony Music having expired, she moved to the Southern Highlands of New South Wales where she set up home and a new recording studio with her partner. Here she produced her latest album, Second Nature, a recording project produced by Eddie Rayner from Split Enz that lasted over 12 months and involve some of the finest musicians from Australia and New Zealand. These included artists like Split Enz, Crowded House, Dave Dobbyn, Max Merritt, Shona Laing, Don McGlashan and Tim Finn to name a few.