Mary Black
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Mary Black is an Irish singer. She was born on 23rd 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.
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. She was named “Best Female Artist” in the IRMA poll in 1987, 1988, 1992, 1994 and 1996.
She is married to Joe O’Reilly of Dara Records and they have three children.
For a number of years, “What Hi-Fi?” magazine considered Mary’s voice to be so pure that it was used as an audiophile benchmark for comparing the sound quality of different high fidelity systems.
Discography
* 1983 Mary Black
* 1984 Collected
* 1985 Without the Fanfare
* 1987 By the Time it Gets Dark
* 1989 No Frontiers
* 1991 Babes in the Wood
* 1992 The Collection
* 1993 The Holy Ground
* 1995 Circus
* 1997 Shine
* 1999 Speaking with the Angel
* 2001 The Best of Mary Black 1991-2001 & Hidden Harvest
* 2003 Mary Black Live
* 2005 Full Tide
* 2008 Twenty-Five Years Twenty-Five Songs
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. She was named “Best Female Artist” in the IRMA poll in 1987, 1988, 1992, 1994 and 1996.
She is married to Joe O’Reilly of Dara Records and they have three children.
For a number of years, “What Hi-Fi?” magazine considered Mary’s voice to be so pure that it was used as an audiophile benchmark for comparing the sound quality of different high fidelity systems.
Discography
* 1983 Mary Black
* 1984 Collected
* 1985 Without the Fanfare
* 1987 By the Time it Gets Dark
* 1989 No Frontiers
* 1991 Babes in the Wood
* 1992 The Collection
* 1993 The Holy Ground
* 1995 Circus
* 1997 Shine
* 1999 Speaking with the Angel
* 2001 The Best of Mary Black 1991-2001 & Hidden Harvest
* 2003 Mary Black Live
* 2005 Full Tide
* 2008 Twenty-Five Years Twenty-Five Songs
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Mary Black The Best Of 1991 - 2001
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Shine
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Best Of '91-2001
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Babes in the Wood
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Beautiful
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Late Night Radio
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Shine
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Trespass Shoes
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Nobody Lives Without Love
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Almost Gone
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What Does It Matter
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Across the Universe
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Bruach na Carraige Baine
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Shoutbox
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strider712 wrote:
Going to see her on the 17 Oct at Birmingham Town Hall
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a_jeda wrote:
jepp so isses banba!!
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Banba777 wrote:
wonderful voice ... the soul of ireland ...wow
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dion_21uk wrote:
The true voice of Ireland
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SchwabeHannover wrote:
tolle Stimme
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clickhound wrote:
Calms my febrile brain with glorious celtic resonance. A pure diamond of a voice.
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AKDoc wrote:
Best female voice .... Ever.
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Mikepopstar wrote:
Great voice
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miss_tremond wrote:
columbus is great. I thought that a similar song didn't exist
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renemeulman1 wrote:
Song for Ireland.... Best song ever!!
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Cankerio wrote:
Nice Voice. I liked her earlier work with the Black family.
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Angelastic wrote:
I agree… I heard it during a fireworks show, recorded a clip of it with my digital camera, did my best to work out the words from the recording, googled to find out the title (not easy since my first guess at the lyrics was 'Hopeless is a world without tea, where corruption and rivalry bind'... it was a bad recording!) then, not finding anywhere to buy the mp3, eventually bought the CD in London
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Humlepung wrote:
Mary Blacks Both Sides the Tweed is one great song!
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