Horse (musician)

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Horse
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Horse McDonald performing on the ColognePride 2014
Background information
Birth nameSheena Mary McDonald
Born (1958-11-22) 22 November 1958 (age 60)
Newport on Tay, Fife, Scotland
Genres Indie, soul, pop
Occupation(s)Musician
InstrumentsVocals, guitar
Years active1987–present
Labels Capitol, MCA, Randan, Kosmic Music
Associated actsAstrakhan, Rhesus Negative, Bachue, The Gospel Truth Choir, The Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Website randan.org
MembersHorse McDonald (vocals, guitar)
Andrew Samson (drums)
/ Gemma Filby (keyboards, vocals)
Gordon Turner (lead guitar, vocals)
Jennifer Clark (double bass, bass guitar)
Andy Jackson (sound)
Past membersAngela McAlinden
Graham Brierton

Horse (born Sheena Mary McDonald, 22 November 1958 in Newport on Tay, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish female singer-songwriter. She has a wide following in the UK and worldwide and has toured with Tina Turner and secured several record chart hits in Europe. She is noted mainly for her rich, sonorous voice, and The Scotsman referred to her as "one of Scotland's all-time great vocalists, also possessed of a keen songwriting intelligence".

Scotland Country in Europe, part of the United Kingdom

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Sharing a border with England to the southeast, Scotland is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, by the North Sea to the northeast and by the Irish Sea to the south. In addition to the mainland, situated on the northern third of the island of Great Britain, Scotland has over 790 islands, including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.

Scottish people ethnic inhabitants of Scotland

The Scottish people or Scots, are a nation and Celtic ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of two Celtic-speaking peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland in the 9th century. Later, the neighbouring Celtic-speaking Cumbrians, as well as Germanic-speaking Anglo-Saxons and Norse, were incorporated into the Scottish nation.

Concert tour series of concerts by a single artist in different venues

A concert tour is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations. Often concert tours are named to differentiate different tours by the same artist and to associate a specific tour with a particular album or product. Especially in the popular music world, such tours can become large-scale enterprises that last for several months or even years, are seen by hundreds of thousands or millions of people, and bring in millions of dollars in ticket revenues. A performer who embarks on a concert tour is called a touring artist.

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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut album The Same Sky, Horse and her band played the entire album on a concert tour of the United Kingdom in October and November 2010.

In 2011, Horse performed a duet with Heather Peace, on a song they wrote together: Beechwood avenue. [1]

Heather Mary Peace is an English actress, musician and LGBT rights activist from Bradford, England.

Horse toured in March 2011, playing an unplugged acoustic set with the full band. These concerts featured "exclusive previews of several new songs from the upcoming ninth album, as well as Horse standards and rare B sides". [2]

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer. Acoustic string instrumentations had long been a subset of popular music, particularly in folk. It stood in contrast to various other types of music in various eras, including big band music in the pre-rock era, and electric music in the rock era.

She is also slated to appear in the soundtrack of the forthcoming[ needs update ] UK independent film, About Her. [3]

Horse appeared on the 2012 charity single 'It Does Get Better' created by The L Project. The single benefitted LGBT charities, and was written in response to the suicide of LGBT teenagers. [4]

LGBT Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.

Horse and her band had a UK wide tour in 2012 and visited Australia (Perth, Sydney, Melbourne) to great reviews.[ citation needed ]

She performed a one-off show at the Barrowland, Glasgow 2 March 2013 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of God's Home Movie and the release of her ninth studio album HOME. [5]

She wed her long-term partner in the town of Lanark, Scotland, where she lived as a teenager. [6]


Discography

Albums

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Singles

YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
UK
[9]
GER
[10]
1989"You Could Be Forgiven"76The Same Sky
1990"The Speed of the Beat of My Heart"81
"Sweet Thing"9658
"Careful"52
1993"Shake This Mountain"52God's Home Movie
"God's Home Movie"56
1994"Celebrate"49
1997"Careful ('97 Remixes)"44single only
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.

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References

  1. Heather Peace and Horse. Beechwood avenue
  2. "News item on the official Horse website". www.randan.org. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  3. "Soundtrack contributors on the "About Her" website". www.abouther.org. Archived from the original on 4 September 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  4. "The L Project". It Does Get Better. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  5. http://www.glasgow-barrowland.com/history/historybands.html
  6. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/music-star-horse-mcdonald-returns-1523457.
  7. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 259. ISBN   1-904994-10-5.
  8. Allmusic.com – Discography – accessed March 2009
  9. "Official Charts Company: Horse". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  10. "Horse – German Chart". charts.de. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  11. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 259. ISBN   1-904994-10-5.
  12. "News item on the official Horse Newsletter". Horse Newsletter. Retrieved 1 June 2012.