Mary Ann Redmond

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Mary Ann Redmond (* 1958 in Richmond , Virginia ) is an American singer, guitarist and composer.

Life

Mary Ann Redmond was born in Richmond, Virginia, the youngest of four children. She attended the denominational St. Elisabeth Parochial School . Redmond studied singing at Virginia Commonwealth University and also played in the Jack Diamond Band . As her career progressed, she left university and devoted herself entirely to music. She sang in various bands and devoted herself not only to pop music but also to jazz and blues .

In the mid-1990s, Redmond recorded their first album, Prisoner of the Heart , with saxophonist Al Williams , which in 2002 came back to the record stores in a remix. Around this time Redmond got a recording deal with Motown . In an interview (see: 'all about jazz', 2003) with Judith Schlesinger she commented on this: The collaboration was initiated by Steve Mc Keever, who saw Mary Ann Redmond performing a live performance and in connection with David Sonnenberg from Goth Communications made the deal for Motown to record and promote three tracks. Mc Keever was eventually undermined by internal Motown differences. Redmond then founded her own record label, Spellbound Music . So far, all of Redmond's works have been published there except Here I Am .

In 1995 Mary Ann Redmond put together her own band and played mainly in Washington clubs and at private parties. Redmond sang at the Georgetown benefit for her cancer friend Eva Cassidy . After Cassidy's death in 1996, Redmond cut her vocals in Cassidy's song Hear and turned the song into a duet that is very popular with fans of both women. After meeting Jon Carroll, a band member of Mary Chapin Carpenter , Carroll produced the CD Here I am . Another band member, John Jennings produced the 2005 CD Send the Moon . Redmond also appeared in 1999 at a show for the US Army soldiers in Bosnia. Mary Ann Redmond has also made an appearance as an author: In the Washington Post (Dec / 13/2001) she published "Life Is Short: Autobiography as Haiku".

Awards

  • 16 Washington Area Music Awards

Discography

  • 1994: Prisoner of the Heart
  • 1997: Live
  • 2000: Here I Am
  • 2002: Prisoner of the Heart (re-release, remix version)
  • 2005: Send the Moon

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personal data
SURNAME Redmond, Mary Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer, guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Virginia , USA