Mary Black was born on 23 May 1955 and is an Irish folk singer.
23 Facts About Mary Black
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Mary Black is well known as an interpreter of both traditional folk and modern material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland.
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Mary Black was born into a musical family on Charlemont Street in Dublin, Ireland, and had four siblings.
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Mary Black was educated at St Louis High School, Rathmines.
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Mary Black's father was a fiddler, who came from Rathlin Island off the coast of Northern Ireland, and her mother was a singer.
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From this musical background, Mary began singing traditional Irish songs at the age of eight.
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Mary Black joined a small folk band in 1975 called General Humbert, with whom she toured Europe and released two albums, in 1975 and 1978.
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Mary Black ventured into traditional Irish music with the band De Dannan and toured with them around Europe and in the US.
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Mary Black departed from De Dannan in 1986, and 1987 saw the release of her first multi-platinum Irish album, By the Time it Gets Dark.
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Mary Black's popularity grew in the United States, due to several tours and widespread radio exposure.
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Mary Black was named Best Female Artist by the IRMA.
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Mary Black was featured on the cover of Billboard magazine in a story hailing her as "a firm favorite to join the heavy-hitting ranks of such Irish artists as Enya, Sinead O'Connor and Clannad's Maire Brennan in the international marketplace".
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The next project saw Mary Black join forces with six Irish female artists to record the compilation album, A Woman's Heart.
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Mary Black recorded two duets with American folk singer Joan Baez in the spring of 1995, for Baez's album Ring Them Bells.
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Mary Black released three more albums in the 1990s, Circus, Shine, and Speaking with the Angel.
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Mary Black was named "Best Female Artist" in 1994 and 1996 for the fourth and fifth time.
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Mary Black released her only studio album of the 2000s decade, Full Tide.
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In 2008, Mary Black was invited to sing a duet on Christie Hennessy's posthumous album "The Two of Us" called "If You Were To Fall".
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Mary Black made a guest appearance on Liam Clancy's album "The Wheels of Life" on the track "Talk To Me of Mendocino".
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Mary Black has sung a duet live with Irish pop band Westlife entitled "Walking in the Air".
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In 2017, Mary Black released a remastered version of her 1987 album, "By The Time It Gets Dark", to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
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Mary Black is married to Joe O'Reilly, of Dara Records, and they have two sons and a daughter.
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Mary Black's son Danny is a member of the Irish rock band The Coronas, while Roisin is performing under the name Roisin O They reside in Dublin, but spend much time in County Kerry.