Maggie Reilly
Maggie Reilly ( born September 15, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish singer.
Early years
The daughter of Scottish singer Danny Reilly accompanied her father at a young age at concerts. In Glasgow she met Stuart McKillop know and came to the formation founded by him Joe Cool. Two years later, the band released, they now Cado Belle named after some personnel changes, their first and only album, Cado Belle. In the following years Maggie Reilly played with Cado Belle on several concerts and worked with other musicians such as Jim Wilkie.
Mike Oldfield
By her boyfriend and future husband, the engineer Chrys Lindop, learned Maggie Reilly 1980 Mike Oldfield know. This encounter influenced her musical career. First, she appeared as a soloist with a European tour Oldfields (see Live at Montreux 1981) and sang alongside other performers song passages one for his album QE2. For the subsequent album 'em Five Miles Out (1982 ) Oldfield engaged her as soloist. In addition to The Deep Deep Sound ( a part of the title Taurus II), she also sang the eponymous song Five Miles Out, along with Oldfield yourself your great musical breakthrough came in 1983 with the third joint project: For the album Crises Oldfield wrote the song Moonlight Shadow. Worn by Maggie Reilly's clear soprano, the song was an ongoing international success, the numerous cover versions followed. In England Moonlight Shadow reached # 4 on the charts in Germany even place 2 In addition, Maggie Reilly sang for Crises also the title of Foreign Affair, at the text she had cooperated. After the success of Crises Reilly also worked on Oldfield's next album Discovery (1984 ) as soloist. In addition to the interpretations of their titles Crystal Gazing and Tricks of the Light above all To France was granted a greater success. Subsequently, they rarely worked together with Oldfield, who sat as a singer now mainly to his girlfriend Anita Hegerland. In collaboration with Maggie Reilly still only on a single as well as a Best of ... published song Mistake and Blue Night, the only sung of her songs on the album Earth Moving (1989).
Collaborations with other musicians
In addition to Mike Oldfield Maggie Reilly also collaborated with many other famous musicians.
Under the leadership of Mike Batt 1986 she was involved with Art Garfunkel, George Harrison, Julian Lennon, Cliff Richard on the realization of Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark in an eponymous musical.
In November 1989, Harold Faltermeyer Artists United for Nature ( AUN ) produced, a project which grossed for the well-known artist in favor of the rainforest the charity song Yes We Can. In addition to Maggie Reilly et al were Joe Cocker, Brian May, Ian Anderson, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Sandra, Jennifer Rush and Chris Thompson to the charity project. The single Yes We Can reached in January 1990 No. 15 of the German charts and stayed a total of three weeks in the Top 20
In addition, Maggie Reilly worked with David Gilmour, Jack Bruce, the Sisters of Mercy ( Vision Thing ), Ralph McTell, Flairck and Smokie ( Wild Horses ).
Juliane Werding 1994 was that had once (fully Nightshade) sang the German version of Moonlight Shadow, Maggie Reilly for their single angel like you and as a consequence for the album you manage to win it. Along with the album also involved in the Belgian singer Viktor Lazlo Maggie Reilly also attended Juliane Werdings successful tour through some twenty cities.
The Hamburg native Germany in studio producer and guitar virtuoso Professor Peter Weihe, who has also worked for the Rain Birds in the studio to listen to numerous songs by Maggie Reilly.
Solo projects
In their work for the Lenny MacDowell Project and Artists United for Nature Maggie Reilly learned the Munich music manager Jürgen Thürnau and Stefan Zauner, know the singer Münchener Freiheit. In co-production with him and Armand Volker she took in 1991 to her first solo album Echoes, contain it was also the airplay hit Everytime We Touch. For this is as the composer of musicians and studio singer Peter Risavy ( † 23 January 2011).
In 1993, their second album Midnight Sun. For Elena (1996 ) could also import the already published in 1984 by Mike Oldfield To France again. In addition, they could for the work on this album next to the Finnish band Värttinä also reunite a large part of Cardo Belle. The three out-coupled from the album Singles, To France, Listen to Your Heart and Walk on By was released a short time later as a remixed versions under the title All the mixes.
Her solo albums were able, however, to achieve any particular chart listing. Appeared in 1998 under the title There and Back Again their first best -of album and then followed Starcrossed ( 2000). In 2009 they had the album Looking Back Moving Forward. Her most recent project was Heaven Sent 2013.
Discography (selection)
Solo albums
Singles
More (selection)
Awards
RSH Gold