Country singer mccann biography
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Susan McCann
Irish singer
Musical artist
Susan McCann (born 26 February 1949) is an Irish-born country and Irish singer. She had a 1977 hit "Big Tom is Still the King" which become a Number 1 in the Irish pop charts. Today, Mccann is affectionately known as 'Irelands First Lady Of Country Music'.
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[edit]McCann has had enduring international popularity; she has recorded more than 650 songs across her career and toured around the world and performed at numerous prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall and Dollywood.[1] McCann has had recording deals in South Africa and toured Russia, has been recording of over 40 years, and has sung for former US President George H. W. Bush and his son George W. Bush. Her 1977 hit "Big Tom is Still the King" become a number 1 hit on the Irish pop charts. She made her first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry in 1979, and won the europeisk Star Award in 1980. She continue to release new albums, including "Through the Years," a
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Susan McCann: First Lady of Country music in Ireland...and abroad
There is no stopping Susan McCann, Ireland’s First Lady of Country music and even after over 46 years in showbusiness she continues to diversity, forge new career paths, win awards and gain even greater admiration for her talents from fans and music industry chiefs both at home and abroad.
What is the secret of her success in the competitive cauldron that the Country music scene in Ireland and internationally can be? Well perhaps it is down to the sincerity she has shown since starting out as a teenage singer at 16 of always putting the fans first and to diversify for their demands.
Susan’s hit songs spring to mind whenever the First Lady of Country’s name is mentioned such as Broken Speed of the Sound of Loneliness to her first number one Big Tom is still the King to her European Gold Star Award winner in Holland While I Was Making Love to You to the multi-lingual, When the Sun Says Goodbye to the Mountains – some
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First Published in Country Music International, December 1997
Lila McCann is the latest teenage singing sensation to take the country market bygd storm. But despite her new-found success, she asserts, “I still want to go to college.”
“Two weeks before my sixth birthday, I told daddy that inom wanted to get up and sing with his band. It was pretty corny, but inom did it anyway, and that’s pretty much how it all started.”
Ten years on, and sixteen-year-old Lila McCann has watched her debut album, LILA, rise into the country top ten and climb higher on the American pop charts than albums bygd such high-profile country acts as Lee Ann Womack, Lorrie Morgan and Toby Keith. LILA fryst vatten rapidly approaching gold status and all this has been achieved without the customary hit single, non-stop tour schedule or heavy radio promotion.
“My dad has a country music band and I’ve been singing with them ever since I was real small,” McCann explains. “I was singing covers from the Judd’s Young Love a