Candice Night

Candice Night Candice civil Isralow Lauren ( born May 8, 1971 in Hauppauge, Long Iceland, New York) is a singer and the wife of former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. She sang the backing vocals in Blackmore's band Rainbow and is now the lead singer in his influenced by the Renaissance folk band, Blackmore 's Night.

Biography

Candice Night took singing lessons as a child. From 1989 to 1990, she completed an internship at a local radio station, during this time she met Ritchie Blackmore at a football game. In 1993, she began her singing career as a backing singer at the Battle Rages On tour of Deep Purple. A little later she was asked a couple of songs for the last Rainbow CD Stranger In Us All writing. With their songs " Ariel ", " Wolf To The Moon " and "Black Masquerade" won international recognition as a songwriter. She ended her modeling career and worked with Ritchie Blackmore, with whom she 1997, the band Blackmore 's Night founded. They took over the texts and the part of the singer. In 2001 she has with the Argentinean Metal project Beto Vazquez Infinity recorded together four songs with guest stars Tarja Turunen ( ex- Nightwish ) and Sabine Edelsbacher ( Edenbridge ). The songs are "Through times Part 2 ", "golden hair", "Through Times Part 3" and " Promises under the rain ." In 2003, she was part of the ensemble " Aina " in the rock opera Days of Rising Doom.

On the Helloween album Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy (2005) sings to see the title Light the Universe and is also in the video Candice Night duet with Andi Deris.

In 2011 she released a solo album titled Reflections.

She also plays medieval instruments such as the shawm, the noise pipe and the Irish tin whistle.

Private

2008 married Night and Blackmore; on 27 May 2010 they became parents of a daughter, Autumn Esmerelda. Both her ​​dedicated the album Autumn Sky, which was released in September 2010. In particular, the song Strawberry Girl she wrote for her daughter. On 7 February 2012 she gave birth to her second child, a boy: Rory Dartanyan.