1. Amy Elizabeth Macdonald was born on 25 August 1987 and is a Scottish singer-songwriter.
47 Facts About Amy Macdonald
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In 2017, Amy Macdonald released her fourth studio album, Under Stars, which entered at number two on the Scottish and UK Album Charts, and spawned three singles, with the lead single "Dream On" achieving chart success in European charts.
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In 2020, Amy Macdonald released her fifth studio album, The Human Demands, which spawned four singles and one promotional single.
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Amy Macdonald represented Scotland at the Free European Song Contest 2021 with her song "Statues", finishing in 4th place with 77 points.
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Amy Elizabeth Macdonald was born on 25 August 1987 in Bishopbriggs, nearby to Glasgow, located in the central belt of Scotland.
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Amy Macdonald attended Bishopbriggs High School in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Amy Macdonald bought a Travis chord book, and started playing on her father's guitar, teaching herself how to play.
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Amy Macdonald started playing in pubs and coffee houses around Glasgow at the age of 15, including the Brunswick Cellars on Sauchiehall Street.
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Amy Macdonald sent a demo CD in response to an advertisement placed in the NME by a new production company set up by songwriters Pete Wilkinson and Sarah Erasmus.
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Amy Macdonald then spent around eight or nine months recording demos with Macdonald at his home studio with a view to securing a record deal for his new client.
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Amy Macdonald has claimed that she feels she was "in the right place at the right time" by answering the advertisement in NME, later claiming that the subsequent success she endured to be "a weird life".
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Amy Macdonald has been described as "one of the last artists" to gain a recording contract by sending a demo to record companies, with Amy Macdonald claiming it to be "mental", citing the music industry changes since 2007.
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In 2007 Amy Macdonald released her debut album, titled This Is the Life.
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Amy Macdonald appeared as a musical performing guest on British and foreign shows including The Album Chart Show, Loose Women, Friday Night Project, Taratata, and This Morning.
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Amy Macdonald won the best newcomer award at the Silver Clef Awards.
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Amy Macdonald has appeared on several US talk shows such as The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, where she performed "Mr Rock and Roll" and The Ellen DeGeneres Show where she performed her hit single, "This Is the Life".
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Amy Macdonald confirmed that she would tour the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe in 2010.
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The album's third single "This Pretty Face" was released on 19 July 2010 after Amy Macdonald confirmed she would embark on a tour entitled The Love Love Tour.
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Amy Macdonald began to write Life in a Beautiful Light after having a "lovely year off" following touring in support of A Curious Thing.
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Amy Macdonald had no time to write songs on her second album as she was touring with This Is the Life.
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However, Amy Macdonald said she felt that the creation of Life in a Beautiful Light was a more natural process.
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Amy Macdonald wrote "Human Spirit" inspired by the Chilean miners' rescue.
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Amy Macdonald told BBC News that Pride was written to describe her feelings about performing Flower of Scotland at Hampden Park prior to Scotland international football matches.
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Amy Macdonald wrote the last track on the album, In the End, at the end of her previous tour and Life in a Beautiful Light was then recorded in Surrey.
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Amy Macdonald began writing songs for a new album in early 2014,2 years following the release of her previous album, Life in a Beautiful Light.
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Amy Macdonald sang "Leap of Faith" during the Scottish independence referendum in September 2014.
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In March 2015, Amy Macdonald announced via Twitter she was finishing the songwriting of the album, but had not yet started recording.
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On 9 August 2016, Amy Macdonald announced via Instagram her fourth album was finished and would be released early 2017.
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Amy Macdonald said although it was two and a half years in the making, which is the longest she has ever taken with an album, she was glad to have taken the time and she feels the album has "the TLC that it deserves".
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Amy Macdonald released the new album entitled Under Stars on 17 February 2017.
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Amy Macdonald performed live on BBC Scotland's Hogmanay 2017 show where she debuted her upcoming single "Dream On".
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In September 2018, Amy Macdonald announced her first greatest hits album, Woman of the World, which includes all of her successful songs, plus a previously unreleased song, "Woman of the World".
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Amy Macdonald announced a European tour, which she embarked on during March and April 2019.
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Amy Macdonald started writing songs between 2018 and 2019 and she started the recording of her fifth studio album in February 2020.
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Amy Macdonald signed a new record deal for the release of The Human Demands, with Macdonald claiming that signing a new record deal was "actually great" and that it "gave that feeling during the first album".
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Amy Macdonald had been signed to the same record label since she was 18 years old and released all four of her first studio albums with the record company.
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Amy Macdonald announced a European tour, which she will embark on between April and July 2021.
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Amy Macdonald discussed the album, and performed an acoustic version of the track "We Could Be So Much More", on BBC Radio 4's Front Row in November 2020.
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Amy Macdonald claimed that she had chosen the three songs based on fan reaction during live performances, claiming that they are "fan favourites".
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Amy Macdonald recorded each of the songs for the extended play in a live performance style, based on the way she performs the songs whilst touring.
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Amy Macdonald revealed in 2008 that she wished to collaborate with The Killers, citing lead singer Brandon Flowers as an "absolute mesmerising performer".
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Amy Macdonald has expressed concerns and scepticism about Brexit at numerous times.
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In 2008, Amy Macdonald sparked controversy over comments she made regarding Leon Jackson who had just won the fourth series of The X Factor in 2007 following Jackson cancelling a performance with Amy Macdonald after it was reported that Jackson was suffering from tonsillitis.
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Amy Macdonald said that she thought Thom "did not go about it the right way" but claimed that she sympathised with Thom and that "a lot of what she said was probably right".
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Amy Macdonald is an avid car enthusiast, and has owned a Range Rover Vogue, an Audi R8, a Nissan GT-R and a Ferrari 458 Speciale amongst others.
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Amy Macdonald was engaged to footballer Steve Lovell in 2008, but did not marry.
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Amy Macdonald announced in January 2016 that she was engaged to footballer Richard Foster.