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Mae Moore Birth name Mae Moore Origin Brandon, Manitoba, Canada Genres Folk, Jazz, Pop Occupations Singer, Songwriter Instruments Vocals, guitar Years active 1985 - Labels CBS Canada/Epic Associated acts Lester Quitzau Website http://www.maemoore.com Past members Marc Atkinson, Rick May, Joby Baker, Ashwin Sood, Paul Brennan, Neil Clark Notable instruments alternate tuned guitar Mae Moore (born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her music is a blend of pop, folk and jazz. Her most successful album, 1992's Bohemia, was an international hit, although her other albums have been successful mainly in Canada.
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Biography
Moore studied art before moving to British Columbia to pursue music. Her first hit came by co-writing the song "Heaven in Your Eyes" (with John Dexter), which would later be recorded by Loverboy for the Top Gun soundtrack in 1986.[1] She then worked with Barney Bentall and Colin Nairne from the band Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts, providing background vocals on their self-titled 1988 album Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts. She sang background vocals on and appeared in the music video for the Legendary Heart's "She's My Inspiration" song from that album. Her association with Bentall and Nairne paid off, as CBS Records in Canada soon awarded her a recording contract.[2]
Moore's debut album, Oceanview Motel, arrived in 1990. It was produced by Bentall and Nairne, and featured Vancouver-area musicians from both Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts and Spirit of the West. Three singles were released including "I'll Watch Over You" which found some success on Canadian radio. That same year she again worked with Bentall, providing vocals on the band's song "Life Could Be Worse" from the Lonely Avenue album.
In 1991, Moore was nominated for a Juno Award for "Most Promising Female Vocalist". That year she travelled to Australia to write tracks for what would become her second album Bohemia. There she collaborated with Steve Kilbey, the lead singer from the popular Australian band The Church, and the resulting recordings featured a more atmospheric sound than her first album. Although Kilbey was producing the album, his ongoing drug addiction resulted in producer Gavin MacKillop being asked to complete the record,[2][3] and Bohemia was released in 1992.
Moore's third and final studio album for CBS was 1995's Dragonfly. It featured her most successful single to date "Genuine", which reached #6 on the RPM "Top 100" singles chart in Canada. Ironically, Moore was dropped from CBS just as she awarded a SOCAN award for the most airplay of that single.[2]
Towards the close of the decade, Jann Arden asked Moore to record an album on Arden's label and the result was 1999's self-titled Mae Moore. Moore's most recent solo album is It's a Funny World.
In 2002, Moore launched an occasional performing collaboration with folk musician Lester Quitzau. Moore and Quitzau subsequently married in 2003. Together they released an album in 2004 entitled Oh My!. Her most recent appearance is a song on Quitzau's 2009 album The Same Light.
Discography
Singles
Release date Title Chart positions Canada
RPM TOP 100Album August 1990 "I'll Watch Over You" #16 Oceanview Motel November 1990 "Where Loneliness Lives" #30 March 1991 "Red Clay Hills" #23 October 1992 "Bohemia" #26 Bohemia January 1993 "Because of Love" #12 May 1993 "Coat of Shame" #11 September 1993 "The Wish" #50 May 1995 "Genuine" #6 Dragonfly September 1995 "Watermark" #29 February 1996 "Love Won't Find Us Here" #18 May 1999 "Free To Love Me (Warm Song)" - Mae Moore Albums
Release date Title Chart positions Canada
RPM Album chartsSeptember 1990 Oceanview Motel - October 1992 Bohemia #66 May 1995 Dragonfly #59 June 1999 Mae Moore - 2000 Collected Works 1989-1999
(greatest hits compilation)- April 2002 It's a Funny World - January 2004 Oh My!
(With Lester Quitzau)- February 2011 Folklore - References
- ^ "Mae Moore biography". Canoe.ca. http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/M/Moore_Mae.html. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ a b c "Mae Moore biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p42724/biography. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "Mae Moore & Steve Kilbey". http://homepage.mac.com/fipster/church/side-projects/moore-collected-works.html. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
External links
- Mae Moore - Official site
Categories:- Living people
- Canadian singer-songwriters
- Canadian pop singers
- Canadian female singers
- People from Brandon, Manitoba
- Musicians from British Columbia
- Musicians from Manitoba
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