Candice Night

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Candice Night
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Night performing in 2012
Background information
Birth nameCandice Lauren Isralow
Born (1971-05-08) May 8, 1971 (age 53)
Hauppauge, New York, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Singer
  • musician
  • songwriter
Instruments
Years active1990s–present
Labels
Member of
Website candicenight.com

Candice Night (born May 8, 1971) [1] is an American singer and musician. She has been the vocalist/lyricist and multi-instrumentalist for the traditional folk rock project Blackmore's Night since its origins in 1997 with her husband, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. She is also the backing vocalist for Rainbow from 1994 to 1997 and 2015–present, again with Blackmore. Her first solo album, Reflections , was released in 2011.

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Career

Born in Hauppauge, Long Island, New York, as Candice Lauren Isralow, she took piano lessons for a couple of years. [1] [2] She began modeling as "Candice Loren" at 12 years of age. [3] She appeared in everything from commercials to print ads, and promoted products at trade shows until her 20s. [2] Night also had her own radio show on a rock music radio station on Long Island, and attended New York Institute of Technology where she studied communications. [1] She is Jewish. [4]

She was once a Rainbow fan, [5] and met Ritchie Blackmore to ask him for an autograph in 1989. [3] They talked about ghosts, music, travel, history, and philosophy, gradually became friends, and then lived together from 1991. [6] She provided backing vocals on the instrumental track "Difficult to Cure" in 1993's European tour of Deep Purple. [7] She also provided singing backing vocals on "Ariel", "Black Masquerade", "Wolf to the Moon" and "Hall of the Mountain King" for Stranger in Us All , the CD by Rainbow, as well as writing lyrics for the four songs on the aforementioned album. Despite her being inexperienced as a professional lead singer, Blackmore encouraged her to become his musical partner. She then wrote lyrics for most of the songs on the first Blackmore's Night album, Shadow of the Moon where she supplied lead vocals. Those songs were written with her voice in his mind. [8]

Night has also composed some full songs, including "Now and Then" on Under a Violet Moon (1999) and "3 Black Crows" and "Ivory Tower" on Ghost of a Rose (2003). She continues to write all the lyrics for the Blackmore's Night songs and plays nine renaissance and medieval instruments.

Since then, she has been awarded gold albums and other awards for the music of Blackmore's Night, and has charted internationally with the group's music. Their 2008 release, Secret Voyage , entered at No. 1 on the new-age Billboard Charts and stayed there for four weeks, and then held on in the top 10 for an additional 14 weeks. She continues to be involved in music, performing both on CDs and in concert, writing lyrics, singing, and playing medieval instruments: shawm, cornamuse, rauschpfeife, pennywhistle, and chanters.

In 2006, Night sang on Helloween's "Light the Universe" song from their Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy album, and she also appeared In Helloween's music video for that track.

She played the part of Oria in the rock opera Story of Aina, with Sass Jordan and Glenn Hughes. She sang three songs on Beto Vázquez Infinity's eponymous album with Tarja Turunen from Nightwish and Sabine Edelsbacher from Edenbridge. The Blackmore's Night song "Old Mill Inn" was heard in Jim Carrey's 2008 film Yes Man .

She also appears on interactive video screens throughout the US and Japan in the theme park MagiQuest as both Princess Amora and Princess Candice. These parks now have a cooperation throughout the US. She was also the Faerie Queen for Faerie Magazine for two years, appearing on the cover in spring 2007, and making appearances and performing at the Faerie Festivals throughout the US.

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In New York, 2012

After being engaged for nearly fifteen years, Night and Blackmore married in October 2008. [9]

Their daughter, Autumn, was born on May 27, 2010, and was the inspiration for Blackmore's Night's album, Autumn Sky , [10] which was released in September 2010. [11] On February 7, 2012, Night gave birth to their second child, a son named Rory Dartanyan.

She made her first solo album Reflections , which was released in October 2011. All songs were written by Night and consist of mostly soft rock ballads. Her latest solo release is "Starlight, Starbright". Inspired by the birth of her children, this collection of songs are covers of classic favorites as well as new composition meant to bring the listener to the land of dreams. [12]

In September 2018, Avantasia's mastermind Tobias Sammet announced that Night joined the cast for the eighth studio album of the supergroup. [13] [ non-primary source needed ] She provided co-lead vocals (together with Sammet himself) for the track "Moonglow", from the album of the same name (2019). [14] Candice and dArtagnan released the duet We're Gonna Be Drinking in 2022. [15]

Discography

With Rainbow

With Blackmore's Night

Solo

Guest appearances

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References

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  2. 1 2 Night, Candice. "Candice Night History". Candice Night Official Website. Archived from the original on August 15, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
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  7. ↑ Gary Hill, Rick Damigella and Larry Toering (January 28, 2011). "Interview with Candice Night of Blackmore's Night from 2010". Music Street Journal.
  8. ↑ Night, Candice (November 2002). "Between Us – November 2002". Candice Night Official Website. Archived from the original on December 14, 2002.
  9. ↑ "Ritchie Blackmore, Longtime Girlfriend Candice Night Tie The Knot". Blabbermouth.net. October 13, 2008. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Ritchie Blackmore And Candice Night Announce Arrival Of First Child, Autumn Esmerelda". Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. July 26, 2010. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
  11. ↑ "New Cd!! Coming September 3rd 2010". Blackmore's Night Official Website. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  12. ↑ "Candice Night – Reflections". MusicWatch @ The Borderland. Archived from the original on December 28, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
  13. ↑ Avantasia (September 29, 2018). "CANDICE NIGHT, lead vocalist of Blackmore's Night will appear on MOONGLOW. What a killer performance she delivered... Very soulful, a lot of feeling, enchanting... Amazing voice show has!!! I am so excited hearing Moonglow come together! THANK YOU CANDICE!". Facebook. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  14. ↑ Nuclear Blast Records (January 25, 2019), Tobias Sammet's Avantasia feat. Candice Night – Moonglow (Official Lyric Video) , retrieved January 29, 2019
  15. ↑ https://genius.com/Dartagnan-were-gonna-be-drinking-lyrics
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