Méav Ní Mhaolchatha

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Méav Natalie Aoife Siobhan Ní Mhaolchatha (born January 26, 1971 in Donnybrook , County Dublin , Ireland ) is an Irish singer who sings mainly Irish folk . She was a founding member of the Celtic Woman group . She sings in English , Irish , French and Latin .

Life

Méav attended a school where she was taught in Irish . She studied for four years at Trinity College and completed her studies with a degree in law . She then acquired a qualification in arts administration and organized cultural events for a music network.

Music career

From 1994 to 1998 Méav was a member of the Irish Chamber Choir Anúna . She went on international tours with Anúna and recorded four albums: Omnis , Deep Dead Blue and Behind the Closed Eye . A compilation of her work as a soloist in the choir was released in 2006 under the name Celtic Dreams . She then toured the United States as a soloist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. She also toured South Africa with Lord of the Dance and gave concerts in Japan and South Korea.

Méav was a founding member of the Celtic Woman group in 2004 . She sang Celtic Woman , A Christmas Celebration , and A New Journey . In 2005 Méav left the group due to her pregnancy until the birth of their first daughter. She then returned to record the CD and DVD New Journey and toured with the group in 2006 and throughout the US and Japan. She also sings on The Greatest Journey .

After the 2007 Christmas DVD from The Helix recorded with Celtic Woman , Méav left Celtic Woman to focus on her solo career. She gave several solo concerts in New England .

In 2009 she returned to her hometown Dublin to perform and received critical acclaim. In the same year she gave birth to her second daughter Catherine and recorded "Where the Sunbeams Play" for the Disney film Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure .

In 2010 she was a special guest at Órla Fallon's Celtic Christmas Concert in Nashville . She sang with her in the duet Do You Hear What I Hear? and solo O Holy Night , accompanied by the harp. She also sang the final song Here We Come A-wassailing with the entire choir and American singing stars David Archuleta and Vince Gill . This concert was broadcast on PBS and released on CD and DVD.

Méav sang at the World Music concert called Divinas with Yulia Townsend and the Israeli singer Rita at Chambord Castle . Méav also performed as a guest soloist on the Celtic Woman's Christmas album Home for Christmas . This was the first collaboration since she left the group in 2007. Méav recorded the TV special Quest: Beyond the Stars in January 2012 at Abbey Road Studios . In the fall of 2013, their new solo album The Calling was released on Warner Music.

family

Méav is married to her husband Tom. She has two daughters named Anna and Catherine.

Discography

Title Release Record label
Méav 1999 Celtic Collections
Silver Sea 2002
Celtic Dreams 2006 Valley Entertainment
A Celtic Journey 2006 Manhattan
Celtic Woman Presents: Méav 2006
Celtic Woman: Home for Christmas 2012
The calling 2013 Warner Music Group

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑  (2000). IMDB . 4th August 2013.
  2. ↑  (2000). Celtic woman . 4th August 2013.
  3. ↑ Notice d'autorité personne. BNF catalog général. In: BNF. catalogue.bnf.fr, February 14, 2009, accessed August 1, 2013 (French).
  4. ^ Past Members of Anúna 1997 to 2009 . In: Anuna.ie . 2009. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 28, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anuna.ie
  5. ^ Discography in the All Music Guide
  6. ↑ Celtic Dreams on Valley-entertainment.com
personal data
SURNAME Mhaolchatha, Méav Ní
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mhaolchatha, Méav Natalie Aoife Siobhan Ní (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish singer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 26th around 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Donnybrook , County Dublin , Ireland