1. Maria Luisa McKee was born on August 17,1964 and is an American singer-songwriter.
20 Facts About Maria McKee
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Maria McKee is best known for her work with Lone Justice, her 1990 song "Show Me Heaven", and her song "If Love Is a Red Dress " from soundtrack of the film Pulp Fiction.
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Maria McKee grew up in a bohemian family and is the half-sister of Bryan MacLean, the guitarist of the band Love.
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When she was 19, Maria McKee wrote Feargal Sharkey's 1985 song "A Good Heart", which she has since recorded and released herself on her album Late December.
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Maria McKee released her first solo, self-titled album in 1989, on which Richard Thompson played guitar and Steve Wickham played fiddle.
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Maria McKee's song "Show Me Heaven", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Days of Thunder, topped the charts in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, where the song topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks, becoming Britain's sixth biggest-selling song of 1990.
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Maria McKee rarely performed this song in public until recently, before she sang it at Dublin Pride.
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Maria McKee's song "If Love Is a Red Dress " was personally selected by Quentin Tarantino for his feature film Pulp Fiction.
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In 1998, country trio The Chicks recorded Maria McKee's "Am I the Only One ", featuring several notable solos by fiddler Martie Maguire.
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Maria McKee appears on the 2014 compilation Songs from a Stolen Spring that paired Western musicians with artists from the Arab Spring.
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Maria McKee recorded a medley of "Ride a White Swan" and "Maria McKee Was Born to Be My Unicorn" for the Marc Bolan tribute album Angel Headed Hipster, produced by Hal Willner.
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Maria McKee sang backing vocals on Robbie Robertson's debut and self-titled solo album, on the track "American Roulette".
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Maria McKee contributed a song, "Never Be You," for the soundtrack to the Walter Hill movie Streets of Fire.
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Maria McKee recorded a duet, "Friends in Time", with The Golden Horde on their eponymously titled album in 1991.
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Maria McKee recorded the duet "This Road is Long" with Stuart A Staples of the band Tindersticks on his 2006 album Leaving Songs.
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Maria McKee teamed up with Dwight Yoakam for a duet on "Bury Me," from his 1986 debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc.
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Maria McKee contributed the lyrics and vocals to the song "No Big Bang" on the only album by The Heads, No Talking, Just Head, playing guitar and synthesizer on the song together with the band, mostly ex-members of Talking Heads.
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Maria McKee came out in 2018 as pansexual, and referred to herself as a "dyke".
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Maria McKee is an advocate for queer and transgender rights.
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Maria McKee is a dog lover, and she and Akin have had a range of breeds as pets over the years, including a pug, greyhound, and whippet.