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Amanda Marshall - Биография
Amanda Meta Marshall (born August 29, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pop-rock singer.
She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a Caucasian father and a Black Trinidadian mother. In several of her songs, Marshall has reflected on her racial identity «as a woman who looks white but is also half-black».
Marshall studied music extensively during her childhood, including at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. While performing on the Queen Street West bar scene in her teens, she met guitarist Jeff Healey, who was struck by her powerful voice and took her on tour.
Career
She signed a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1991, but both parties agreed that they were not a good fit and went their separate ways. In 1995, Marshall signed to Epic Records, and released her debut album Amanda Marshall the same year. The album was a major success in Canada, generating a great deal of airplay and spawning six Top 40 hits — «Let It Rain,» «Beautiful Goodbye,» «Dark Horse,» «Fall From Grace,» «Sitting on Top of the World,» and «Birmingham,» which remains her biggest hit internationally.
In 1997, her song «I’ll Be Okay» was included into the original soundtrack of My Best Friend’s Wedding.
In 1999, she released a successful follow-up album, Tuesday’s Child. It followed in the same vein as her debut, with a mix of soulful pop songs and ballads, characterizing her powerful voice. Her song «Ride» from that album would be featured in the The Replacements and on its soundtrack. Another single from that album, «Believe In You,» was featured on one episode of Touched By An Angel, while Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi was the guest guitarist on the track «Why Don’t You Love Me.»
She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a Caucasian father and a Black Trinidadian mother. In several of her songs, Marshall has reflected on her racial identity «as a woman who looks white but is also half-black».
Marshall studied music extensively during her childhood, including at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. While performing on the Queen Street West bar scene in her teens, she met guitarist Jeff Healey, who was struck by her powerful voice and took her on tour.
Career
She signed a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1991, but both parties agreed that they were not a good fit and went their separate ways. In 1995, Marshall signed to Epic Records, and released her debut album Amanda Marshall the same year. The album was a major success in Canada, generating a great deal of airplay and spawning six Top 40 hits — «Let It Rain,» «Beautiful Goodbye,» «Dark Horse,» «Fall From Grace,» «Sitting on Top of the World,» and «Birmingham,» which remains her biggest hit internationally.
In 1997, her song «I’ll Be Okay» was included into the original soundtrack of My Best Friend’s Wedding.
In 1999, she released a successful follow-up album, Tuesday’s Child. It followed in the same vein as her debut, with a mix of soulful pop songs and ballads, characterizing her powerful voice. Her song «Ride» from that album would be featured in the The Replacements and on its soundtrack. Another single from that album, «Believe In You,» was featured on one episode of Touched By An Angel, while Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi was the guest guitarist on the track «Why Don’t You Love Me.»
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