Maria McKee

Maria Louise McKee ( born August 17, 1964 in Los Angeles ) is an American singer and songwriter.

Musical career

The ancestors of Maria McKee come from Ireland. McKee is a half-sister of 17 years old Bryan McLean, guitarist Arthur Lee's folk pioneers Love. McKee founded in 1982 in Los Angeles, the country-rock band Lone Justice, the punk crossed with country. For the original line-up of Lone Justice also included Benmont Tench, keyboardist from Tom Petty.

At the age of 19 she wrote the song A Good Heart. David A. Stewart of the Eurythmics in 1985 made ​​it a worldwide hit, but not interpreted by Maria McKee, but Sharkey Feargal. A Good Heart took two weeks # 1 on the UK charts, became a worldwide hit and made them temporarily wealthy: " I earned a gazillian dollars and spent it all That's what you do when you're 19 ," she said years later a concert. Published in 2007, Maria McKee own version of A Good Heart on her album Late December.

Since Maria McKee is on stage, the critics struggled with hymns of praise. Maria McKee's honey- roasted voice can take on the fragile passion of Patsy Cline, the glowing soul of Aretha Franklin and the powerful blues of Janis Joplin, praised the New Musical Express. Although music stars such as Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan raved about the greatest talent of the present and the record companies to beat the new prodigies, the plates of Lone Justice were only moderately successful. McKee left the band and fled to Ireland. The musicians of the band U2, they found shelter. " Nothing I do Has ever hit here ," she later said about her success in her home country, the USA.

In 1989, she released her first solo album. A year later, she achieved success with the cuddly ballad Show Me Heaven an international hit. The song was the title song of the Tom Cruise film Days of Thunder and reached number 1 in the UK, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. Quentin Tarantino took a few years later the title of If Love Is a Red Dress ( Hang Me in Rags ) in the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction on.

The published 1993 album You Gotta Sin to Get Saved, which was recorded for the most part with the Jayhawks, was again only a critical success. In the same year, Maria McKee involved in the Sweet- relief project in support of people suffering from multiple sclerosis musician Victoria Williams. After the release of Life Is Sweet 1996, she took a long hiatus. Only in 2003 she placed with high dive before a new album. Since then she has released two more studio and two live albums.

Maria McKee lives and works together with her husband and producer Jim Akin in Los Angeles.

Discography

Albums with Lone Justice

  • Lone Justice (1985 )
  • Shelter (1986)
  • BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1993 )
  • This World Is Not My Home (1998)

Albums

  • Maria McKee (1989)
  • You Gotta Sin to Get Saved (1993 )
  • Life Is Sweet ( 1996)
  • Ultimate Collection (2000)
  • High Dive (2003)
  • Live in Hamburg (2004)
  • Peddlin ' Dreams (2005)
  • Live Acoustic Tour 2006 (2006)
  • Late December (2007)

Singles

  • Show me Heaven (1990 )
  • Sweetest Child [ Sweetest Child featuring Maria McKee ] (1992 )
  • I'm Gonna Soothe You ( 1993)
  • I Can not Make It Alone (1993 )
  • This Perfect Dress (1996 )
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