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Loreena McKennitt
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Canadian musician and composer
OverviewAI-generated
Loreena McKennitt is a Canadian female artist who began her professional work period in 1985. Her musical style is categorized under celtic, folk, new age, and ethereal genres. She is associated with the country of Canada and has an official website.
On Last.fm, her music is tagged with descriptors including celtic, folk, new age, female vocalists, and ethereal. The platform records 600,854 listeners and a total playcount of 20,675,977. She also maintains a social media presence with 21,426 followers.
Open Library lists her as an author with two works, including "How to Make and Sell Your Own Recording." Crossref indicates she has five works. Her biography is referenced by 273 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- How to Make and Sell Your Own Recording
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1957-02-17
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 600,854
- Total plays
- 20,675,977
Tags
Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM OM (born February 17, 1957 in Morden, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. She is self-managed, self-produced and head of her own record label - Quinlan Road. In a recording career spanning three decades, McKennitt's “eclectic Celtic” music has won critical acclaim worldwide and gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales awards in
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical Practice Update on Heart Failure 2019: Pharmacotherapy, Procedures, Devices and Patient Management. An Expert Consensus Meeting Report of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology
· 2019 · cited 524x
- Self‐care of heart failure patients: practical management recommendations from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology
· 2020 · cited 470x
- Evaluation of Kidney Function Throughout the Heart Failure Trajectory – A Position Statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology
· 2020 · cited 364x
- Heart Failure in Cardiomyopathies: A Position Paper from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology
· 2019 · cited 330x
- Right Heart Dysfunction and Failure in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Mechanisms and Management. Position Statement on Behalf of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology
· 2017 · cited 327x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “To be a catalyst is one of my life’s objectives. I’ve been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It’s very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that’s wonderful.”
- “I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.”
- “I can see lights in the distance Trembling in the dark cloak of nightCandles and lanterns are dancing, dancingA waltz on All Souls Night.”
- “Bonfires dot the rolling hillsidesFigures dance around and aroundTo drums that pulse out echoes of darknessAnd moving to the pagan sound.”
- “Standing on the bridge that crosses The river that goes out to the sea The wind is full of a thousand voices They pass by the bridge and me.”
- “The thundering waves are calling me home to youThe pounding sea is calling me home to you”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Loreena McKennitt , ( 1957-02-17 ) February 17, 1957 (age 69) , Morden, Manitoba , Canada
- Origin
- Stratford, Ontario , Canada
- Genres
- Celtic fusion world new-age
- Occupations
- Musician singer-songwriter producer composer
- Instruments
- Vocals piano harp accordion
- Years active
- 1985–1998, 2006–present
- Labels
- Quinlan Road Warner Bros. Verve Forecast / Universal
- Website
- loreenamckennitt .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Loreena McKennitt CM OM CD (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear soprano vocals. She has sold more than 16 million records worldwide.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loreena McKennitt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.