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Shay, Michael and Martin Black Back to Artist List
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Recent Album: What A Time 1996
These brothers are part of the famous Black Familywhich includes Frances Black. and Links. While not as well known as their sisters, they bring the same
folk-traditional style that made their sisters international stars.
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Recent Album: Speaking With The Angel
BORN: May 22, 1955, Ireland
Mary Black is a performer equally at home singing traditional Irish folk tunes and contemporary music including blues, rock, jazz, country and soul. She was born into a musical family the daughter of a fiddler and a singer. She started out professionally with her brother and sister
in Dublin nightclubs and then performed with General Humbert, a folk group until 1982 when she released her eponymous solo debut. The album made it to the Top Five on the Irish album charts and won the Irish Independent Arts Award for Music. At the invitation of Alec Finn, Black joined the band De Dannan. A week later, she took part in the recording of Song of Ireland with them. She remained with De Dannan for three years. In 1984, Black helped produce and sang back-up
on the Black's Family Favourites album. She was still performing with De Dannan when she launched her solo career with the Declan Sinnott-produced largely pop album Without the Fanfare. Many of the tracks went gold and for both 1987 and
1988 she was named Best Female Artist in the Irish Rock Music Awards Poll. Black's music crossed the Atlantic in 1990 when her 1989 album No Frontiers, debuted in the U.S. and climbed to the Top 20 of the New Adult Contemporary charts. It was also a top seller in Ireland. That year
Black began a successful concert tour of Japan. Though her music is firmly based in Irish tradition, Black is interested in performing all kinds of music. Her first influences included Sandy Denny and the Fairport Convention. Other influences include Billie Holiday, Aretha
Franklin and Bonnie Raitt. ~ Sandra Brennan, All-Music Guide (From CD-NOW Biography)
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Recent Album: Sky Road
A pure vocal tone and an energetic, pop-minded delivery has made Frances Black one of Ireland's top vocalists. In 1995 and 1997, Black was named by the Irish Record Industry Awards (IRMA) as Ireland's Best Female Artist. She also received the Most Popular Artist award at the
National Awards ceremony. A former member of Arcady and The Black Family, in 1993 Black made her solo debut with two tracks on the million-selling, multi-artist compilation Woman's Heart. An album-related
tour with Maura O'Connell, Dolores Keane, Sharon Shannon, Sinead Lohan and her sister, Mary Black, broke all of Ireland's box office records. While Black's debut solo album, Talk to Me (released in
1994), sold over 100, 000 copies and spent eight weeks at the top of Ireland's music charts, her releases The Sky Road (1995), The Smile on Your Face (1996) and Don't Get Me Wrong (1998) further established her as an internationally known performer. (From CD-NOW Biography)
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Recent Album: The Black Family
FORMED: 1965
This talented singing family features Mary Black, who gained recognition with the group De Danann and then broke through to great fame on her own, as well as Frances Black, whose work with Arcady seems sure to catapult her to similar success. Their brothers Martin, Michael and Shay
round out the group. ~ Steve Winick, All-Music Guide
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