Kate and Anna McGarrigle
| Kate & Anna McGarrigle | |
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Kate (left) and Anna McGarrigle, 1981
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Folk rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musicians, singer-songwriters |
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| Years active | 1975–2010 |
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| Associated acts | Mountain City Four, Joel Zifkin, Wade Hemsworth, Dane Lanken, Linda Ronstadt, Maria Muldaur, Emmylou Harris, Loudon Wainwright III, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright |
| Website | mcgarrigles |
Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010.
Anna and Kate McGarrigle were born in Montreal of mixed Irish- and French-Canadian background, but lived their childhood in the Laurentian Mountains village of Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, northwest of Montreal, where they learned piano from village nuns. In the 1960s, in Montreal, while Kate was studying engineering at McGill University and Anna art at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, they began performing in public and writing their own songs. From 1963 to 1967 they teamed up with Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon to form the folk group Mountain City Four.
Into the twenty-first century, Kate and Anna McGarrigle continued to write music, to record and to perform with assorted accompanying musicians including Gerry Conway, Pat Donaldson, Ken Pearson, Michel Pépin, Chaim Tannenbaum and Joel Zifkin.
Their songs have been covered by a variety of artists including Maria Muldaur, Nana Mouskouri, Linda Ronstadt,Emmylou Harris,Billy Bragg, Cyndi Lauper, Pet Shop Boys, Chloé Sainte-Marie, Judy Collins,Anne Sofie von Otter and others. The covers of their songs by well-known artists led to the McGarrigles getting their first recording contract in 1974. They created ten albums from 1975 through 2008.
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