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Maggie Reilly | |
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| Born | 15 September 1956 Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Years active | 1970s–present |
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| Website | maggie-reilly |
Maggie Reilly (born 15 September 1956) [1] is a Scottish singer best known for her collaborations with the composer and instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. Most notably, she performed lead vocals on the Oldfield songs "Family Man", "Moonlight Shadow", "To France", and "Foreign Affair", all of which were international hits in the early 1980s.
Reilly first came to prominence as a member of the 1970s soul outfit Cado Belle (previously named Joe Cool) and released one album with them in 1976. [2]
She is best known for her collaborations with the composer Mike Oldfield between 1980 and 1984, [2] [3] especially by co-writing and performing the vocals on "Family Man" (from the album Five Miles Out ), "Moonlight Shadow", "Foreign Affair" (from the album Crises) and "To France" (from the album Discovery ).
In 1992 Reilly released her debut solo album Echoes , [2] from which the singles "Everytime We Touch", "Tears in the Rain" and "Wait" were the most successful. A series of solo albums were released over the next 27 years.
She has also worked with many other artists, including Mike Batt (on his Hunting of the Snark album), Jack Bruce, Dave Greenfield & Jean-Jacques Burnel, Nick Mason & Rick Fenn, Michael Cretu, Lesiëm, Ralph McTell, Simon Nicol of Fairport Convention, Stefan Zauner of Münchener Freiheit, Runrig, The Sisters of Mercy, and Smokie. "Moonlight Shadow 2k14" (Michael Fall remix) was released on 23 May 2014 on the German label ZYX Music.
| Year | Awards | Work | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 1993 | RSH Gold Awards | Herself | Best Artist with German producer | Won | [4] |
| Danish Music Awards | Best International Female | Nominated | [5] |
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||||||||
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| NED | BEL (FLA) | GER [6] | AUT | SWI | SWE | NOR | |||||||
| 1969 | "Imagine Me" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | non-album track | ||||
| 1984 | "As Tears Go By" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | non-album track | ||||
| 1991 | "What About Tomorrows Children" | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Echoes | ||||
| 1992 | "Everytime We Touch" | 63 | 47 | 16 | 5 | 24 | 34 | 1 | |||||
| "Wait" | — | — | 54 | 23 | 28 | — | — | ||||||
| "Tears in the Rain" | — | — | 56 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1993 | "Follow the Midnight Sun" | — | — | 56 | — | — | — | — | Midnight Sun | ||||
| "Every Single Heartbeat" | — | — | 57 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1994 | "Don't Wanna Lose" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 1996 | "Walk on By" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Elena | ||||
| "Listen to Your Heart" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Walk on By (The Mixes)" (as M.R.) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | All The Mixes | |||||
| 1997 | "To France (The Mixes)" (as M.R.) | 53 | — | 19 | 17 | 22 | — | — | |||||
| "Listen to Your Heart (The Mixes)" (as M.R.) | — | — | 44 | 38 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
| 1998 | "One Little Word" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Best Of Maggie Reilly – There And Back Again | ||||
| 2000 | "Always You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Starcrossed | ||||
| "Adelena" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 2002 | "Save It for a Rainy Day" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Save It for a Rainy Day | ||||
| 2012 | "My Angel" (with Nu Frequency) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Connected Remixes(Nu Frequency album) | ||||
| 2013 | "Juliette" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Heaven Sent | ||||
| "Cold the Snow Clad Mountain" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Where the Heart Lies" (with Bryan Rice) [7] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | non album single | |||||
| 2015 | "Everytime We Touch" (remastered) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | non-album track | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||||||||
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