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Mary Black is an Irish singer. She was born on 22 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 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 do try contemporary styles ranging from jazz to country.
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She was named "Best Irish Female Artist" in the Irish Recorded Music Awards
poll for two years running. Her albums include "Mary Black", "By the Time it
Gets Dark", "Without the Fanfare", "No Frontiers", "The Holy Ground", "Babes
in the Wood", "Circus" and "Shine".
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. She is married to Joe O'Reilly
of Dara Records and they have three children. |
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