Loreena McKinnett

[size=18][font:0f87=Comic Sans Ms][b]Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt[/b],(born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist and pianist most famous for writing, recording and performing world music with Celtic music and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is well known for her soprano vocals.

Her first album, [b]Elemental[/b], was released in 1985 and attracted global attention with subsequent releases of self-produced work, including: To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987), Parallel Dreams (1989), The Visit (1991), The Mask and Mirror (1994), A Winter Garden (1995), The Book of Secrets (1997), An Ancient Muse (2006) and A Midwinter Night’s Dream (2008).

McKennitt's single [b]"The Mummers' Dance"[/b] was a widespread success, receiving considerable airplay in North American markets during the spring of 1997, and was used as the theme song for the short-lived TV series, Legacy. [b]An Ancient Muse[/b], her first full-length studio album in nine years, was released in November 2006. All of her work has been released under her own label, [i]Quinlan Road[/i].

In 1993, her music became known to a wider audience when she toured Europe supporting Mike Oldfield. In 1995, her version of the traditional Irish song "Bonny Portmore" was prominently featured in the film Highlander 3, causing a large increase of album sales among fans of the films. Her music has also appeared in the movies The Santa Clause, Soldier, Jade, Holy Man, The Mists of Avalon and the television series Roar.

[b]Personal life:[/b]
In 1998, McKennitt's fiancé, [b]Ronald Rees[/b], his brother Richard and their close friend Gregory Cook, drowned during a boating incident on Georgian Bay. She was deeply affected by the event and subsequently founded the Cook-Rees Memorial Fund in the same year and also released an album of two live performances called [b]Live in Paris and Toronto[/b] which she was recording at the time of the incident from which all of the profits were donated to the fund (about $3 million) After this album, McKennitt performed only rarely and didn't release any new recordings until 2006 when she released the studio album [b]An Ancient Muse[/b].[/font][/size]
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