Mary Ann Redmond
Mary Ann Redmond (born 1958 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American singer, guitarist and composer.
Life
Mary Ann Redmond was born in Richmond, Virginia, the youngest of four children. She attended the denominational St. Elizabeth Parochial School. Redmond graduated from the Virginia Commonwealth University vocals and played the way in the Jack Diamond band. As her career progressed, she left the university and devoted himself entirely to music. She sang in several bands and devoted himself next to the pop music and jazz and blues.
The mid-1990s took Redmond with saxophonist Al Williams her first album Prisoner of the Heart on that in 2002 came once in a remix to the record stores. Around this time, Redmond received a recording contract with Motown. In an interview (see: ' all about jazz ', 2003) with Judith Schlesinger they commented on them: The collaboration was initiated by Steve Mc Keever, who saw Mary Ann Redmond in a live performance and in conjunction with David Sonnenberg of Goth Communications for Motown the deal, take three pieces and to promote it, made. Mc Keever but was eventually undermined by Motown internal differences. Then Redmond founded her own record label, Spellbound Music. There, so far all works published up to Redmond on Here I Am.
In 1995, Mary Ann Redmond together his own band and played mainly in Washington clubs and at private parties. Redmond sang on the Georgetown benefit for their friend 's cancer Eva Cassidy. After Cassidy's death in 1996, Redmond cut her singing in Cassidy's song Hear and made the song a duet that when fans of both women is highly sought after. After meeting with Jon Carroll, a member of the band by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carroll produced the CD Here I am Another band member, John Jennings produced the 2005 released CD Send the Moon. Redmond came also in 1999 at a show for the U.S. Army soldiers in Bosnia. Also known as author Mary Ann Redmond has already appeared in publication: In the Washington Post ( Dec/13/2001 ) she published "Life Is Short: Autobiography as Haiku ."