Maureen McGovern

Maureen McGovern ( born July 27, 1949 in Youngstown, Ohio ) is an American singer and Broadway actress.

After McGovern in 1967 graduated from high school, she worked as a secretary and sang in a folk band called incidentally Sweet Rain. 20th Century Records in 1972 undertook McGovern as a singer for the title song The Morning After the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure, written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. The song reached No. 1 on the 1973 U.S. Billboard charts and was rewarded with an Oscar. In the following two years she sang again a theme song to the film The Towering Inferno and gold, for the former, there was again an Academy Award (1975). For Wherever Love Takes Me there was an Oscar nomination.

The early 1980s played McGovern in different Broadway productions. Middle of the decade she turned back to the music. McGovern went from being a pop singer to a performer of classic American compositions by artists such as Michel LeGrand, Alan & Marilyn Bergman and George Gershwin. In 1989 she sang for the first time at Carnegie Hall. 1996 and 1997, McGovern was each nominated for a Grammy.

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