Amy Macdonald
Amy Elizabeth Macdonald ( born August 25, 1987 in Bishopbriggs, Scotland ) is a British singer- songwriter.
Life
At the age of twelve years began Amy Macdonald - among other things, of the rock band Travis influenced - to play acoustic guitar. As a key experience for her career, she refers to a performance by Pete Doherty in Glasgow:
"It was a super show. [ ... ] A few friends and I left after the guitar go round and played spontaneous songs that we liked. Since I knew that I wanted to be a musician. "
In July 2007, the autodidact labeled with the title Mr Rock & Roll number 12 in the UK Top 40 in the autumn of 2007 she accompanied Paul Weller on his tour of Germany. With their debut album This Is the Life they reached the beginning of 2008 # 1 on the UK charts and received double - platinum. The single of the same has been very successful throughout Europe and sold more than 1.2 million times.
The recordings for the second album A Curious Thing took place in the Black Barn Studio by Paul Weller. The album was released on 12 March 2010; the single Do not Tell Me That It's Over has already decoupled the end of February 2010. The album debuted at the top spot of the German, Austrian, Swiss and European album charts and reached in Germany before charting gold status. In Switzerland and Germany, the album received a platinum award.
Together with her band and the orchestra of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern Amy Macdonald was on October 17, 2010 in the Luxembourg Rockhal in Esch- sur -Alzette a concert in which they played songs from their two previous albums in an orchestral version. This resulted in the live album A Curious Thing Special Orchestral Edition.
On June 8, 2012 their third album Life appeared in a Beautiful Light; hitherto Slow It Down, Pride and 4th of July were released.
Macdonald writes all her own texts and sees it as a differentiator to comparable artists, such as Adele, Kate Nash and Duffy.
On 1 December 2012 Macdonald suffered a breakdown in a hotel in Zurich and was then treated in a Swiss hospital. The remaining tour dates for 2012 have been moved then.
Amy Macdonald was engaged from 2008 to 2012 with the former footballer Steve Lovell. The singer calls himself a great friend of football, appeared at the ceremony of FIFA Awards 2012, sang several times before the internationals Scotland whose unofficial national anthem The Flower of Scotland and is one of the currently most prominent supporters of the Glasgow Rangers. The latter has also addressed it in the songs Pride and The Green and the Blue.
Discography
Studio albums
Awards
- Daily Record 2008: in the category " Scottish Person of the Year "
- Echo 2009: In the category "Newcomer International "
- 2011: in the category "Artist International Rock / Pop "
- Silver Clef Award 2007: in the category " Best Newcomer "
- Swiss Music Award 2009: In the category " Best Song International" ( This Is the Life)
- 2009: In the category " Best Album Pop / Rock International " ( This Is the Life)
- 2011: in the category " Best Album Pop / Rock International " (A Curious Thing )
- 2010: in the category " Best Album " (A Curious Thing )
- Golden Records (only albums in Germany, without singles ) This Is the Life: 5 times platinum (2012 )
- A Curious Thing: 2 times Platinum ( 2011)
- Life In A Beautiful Light: 1- times platinum (2013 )