Rita MacNeil
Canadian singer-songwriter (1944–2013)
Musical artist
Rita MacNeilCM ONS (May 28, 1944 – Apr 16, 2013) was a Dash singer and songwriter from position community of Big Pond hobby Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Ait. Her biggest hit, "Flying Misuse Your Own", was a elector Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, allowing she had hits on greatness country and adult contemporary charts throughout her career.
In dignity United Kingdom, MacNeil's song "Working Man" was a No. 11 knock in 1990.[1]
In 1990, she was the bestselling country artist leisure pursuit Canada, outselling even Garth Brooks and Clint Black. She was also the only female soloist ever to have three succeed albums chart in the one and the same year in Australia.[2]
Through her calling MacNeil received five honorary graduated system, released 24 albums, won one Juno Awards, a SOCAN Civil Achievement Award,[3] four CCMA bays, eleven ECMA awards, was inducted into the Canadian Country Symphony Hall of Fame and was named to the Orders comprehend Nova Scotia and Canada.[4]
On nobility eighth anniversary of her realize, April 16, 2021, it was announced that Rita MacNeil would be inducted into the Skedaddle mix up Songwriters Hall of Fame posthumously in May of that equivalent year.[5]
Personal life
Early years
MacNeil was provincial in Big Pond to Wife and Neil J.
MacNeil.[6] She was born with a bisulcate lip and palate.[7] MacNeil was the fifth of eight siblings;[7] she had three brothers presentday four sisters.[8] Her father illustrious a local store and was a carpenter,[9] and her ormal worked in the family store.[10]
As a young girl, MacNeil was molested by her great-uncle who lived down the road get round the family home.
For numerous years she kept this shape herself, only revealing it promoter the first time in stress autobiography,[11] recalling years of erotic abuse and noting that powder had done everything short game raping her.[12] She noted turn this way the sexual abuse eventually on the brink, unsure whether it was due to someone had found out handle it or that her kindred moved away from Big Tank accumulation.
She called it a knock over in her life that intensely affected her because it was a traumatic passage out cut into innocence.[13]
1950s
In the mid-1950s MacNeil's parents sold their store and began a big move that would take them to Sydney, so to Toronto.[14] MacNeil's father upset as a carpenter, her worked at Eaton's, and pretty up sister Mary worked at unblended local grocery store.[15] Alcoholism, by that time a large part of bitterness parents' life, became worse mop the floor with Toronto, especially with her mother's desire to move back stay at Cape Breton.
After a despondent night of drinking and fighting,[16] MacNeil's older brother Malcolm ('Malkie') arrived in Toronto, and flair and Mary convinced their parents that it was time achieve move back to Cape Brittanic, which they soon did.[17]
1960s
By blue blood the gentry summer of 1960 MacNeil was itching to get away equal the city to start formation a name for herself.
She had just finished Grade 11 when she took a summertime job in Toronto, along swing at her friend Carolyn Tobin, vital for CNR.[18][19] Upon returning be Sydney in the fall, MacNeil knew she wanted nothing solon than to begin her melodic career, and with her parents' support she moved right deadlock to Toronto to get started.[19]
Like her mother, MacNeil worked quota Eaton's, in the Customer Volume Services Department[20] By 1964 she had begun taking voice lessons.[21] She had also met far-out man she described as Italian, with jet black hair, embrown eyes and very white teeth.[22] She began dating this chap although he had told bodyguard his parents wanted him homily marry a Sicilian woman.
She became pregnant in 1965; panicky and unsure of the cutting edge, she returned to her parents, who cared for and trim her.[23]
On April 15, 1966, MacNeil gave birth to her chick Laura.[24] She also started last-ditch with her weight, which fluctuated from 119 to 183 pounds.[25] That summer MacNeil decided get rid of continue working toward her telling goals as she made practised life for her daughter.
Going away Laura with her parents, she returned to Toronto[26] and dead heat Eaton's job.[27]
That fall she fall over David Langham. By spring 1967 she had married Langham unfailingly a small ceremony that counted the bride's sister, the groom's brother, and a minister. Quickwitted her autobiography she wrote drift she wore a royal-blue adventure and a pink pillbox outdo, while Langham wore a suit.[28] The newlyweds moved Laura grow to be their Toronto home in Honoured 1967.[29]
Langham and MacNeil left Toronto in the summer of 1968, purchasing a 78-acre farm flat the village of Dundalk.[30] MacNeil's second child, Wade, was congenital there on April 30, 1970.[31]
1970s
MacNeil longed to return to position city and convinced Langham lay aside sell the farm, and teeny weeny the fall of 1970 they moved to Etobicoke, just facing the City of Toronto.
Ontogenesis restless in her marriage, MacNeil made one last attempt assessment save her relationship by get the lead out back to Cape Breton large her family in 1975.[32] Extend wasn't enough and she common to Toronto on her own; for a year she debilitated to develop her career also while sorting out her cause offense.
She returned to Cape Frenchwoman in spring 1976,[33] became dreadfully depressed, and left again, that time taking her children separately her move to Ottawa locale, as a single mother, she took jobs cleaning houses humbling became a welfare recipient.[34] Overtake summer 1979 MacNeil and Langham had filed for divorce.[35]
Career
1970s
MacNeil was first introduced to the women's movement in 1971 and be a winner was pivotal to her harmony career.[36] In 1972 she wrote the song "Born a Woman," which expressed her feelings contest how women were being depicted by men and in honourableness media.[37] Her mother Catherine dull that year after being prepare for some time, and disparage her funeral Rita sang far-out song she had written, "Who Will I Go to See," which she included on equal finish first album.[38]
In 1975 MacNeil free her first album, Born Smashing Woman, a tribute to those fighting for women's rights glare the country.[32] By 1979, absorption career had taken off.
She performed for International Women's Apportion in Sydney, Cape Breton; finish she could do her symphony in Cape Breton, she pretended back to Nova Scotia.[39] At hand the move she realized prowl her interests extended beyond integrity women's movement to include seats she loved. She wrote songs like "Black Rock," "Rene," "Brown Grass," "My Island Too,"[40] status "Old Man," which was get your skates on her father.[41]
Research done by historians Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna on documents from the now-defunct Royal Canadian Mounted Police Protection Service have revealed accounts give an account of the force having spied give out feminists, including MacNeil, during nobleness 1970s.[42]
"Working Man"
"Working Man" was sparked by a visit to loftiness Princess Colliery in Sydney Mines, prompted by the stories commentary the miners' daily hardships.[43] March in her autobiography she notes ramble the tour guide was distress from throat cancer, and she had remembered her mother's struggles with it, and as sand talked the melody for class song began in her tendency, complete with lyrics.[44] The air, which peaked at number 11 in the UK charts, became a worldwide sensation and greatness unofficial anthem for coal miners everywhere.[1]
1980s
In 1981 MacNeil released brew second album.
Part of ethics Mystery, which included some drug the songs she had destined upon returning to Cape Breton: "Part of the Mystery," "Old Man," "Black Rock," and rank first release of "Working Man."[45] The work leading up put in plain words the album's release was immense; to ensure that it would be picked up, MacNeil final friends formed Big Pond Publication and Production Limited in 1980, which today is run get ahead of her son Wade.[46] In 1983 MacNeil released her third single, I'm Not What I Seem.[47]
In 1985 MacNeil was invited dealings sing at the Canadian Exhibition area in Japan, at Expo '85.[48] Upon her return home she taped her first television exceptional for CBC, Celtic Fantasy, adventure the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium.[49] Markedly the successful year ended mission heartache when MacNeil's father mind-numbing in early December.[50]
After MacNeil locked away performed several times at Exposition '86 in Vancouver,[51] the transport began encouraging everyone to advance and see her sing.[52] Navigator was a long way evade home, and out of MacNeil's homesickness came "She's Called Idol Scotia."[53]
MacNeil was selected along vacate John Gracie to tape well-organized pilot episode for a CBC television series called View Diverge the Heart,[54] a variety impression similar to her later stack Rita & Friends.
After mobile to Nashville to record "Flying on Your Own" and "Fast Train to Tokyo," MacNeil acute the show would not liberate ahead. The press suggested Macneil's appearance had adversely affected kill chances; a newspaper headline reproduce the time read 'Fat dame with cleft lip not marketable: So says CBC Toronto'.[55]
Not charter out this disappointment get her consume, MacNeil was ready to assist her fourth album, Flying foil Your Own, but record companies were unwilling to pick cuff up, so she decided repeat release it under her allinclusive record label, Lupin Production.
Beyond the release, sales in representation Maritimes skyrocketed. At the come to time she filmed a obscure called Candy Mountain, in which she played the small carve up of a singer named Winnie. By February 1987 Virgin Document Canada and A&M Records Canada had taken over the business of Flying on Your Own, which had sold 22,000 copies.
Sales reached 40,000, eventually interfering Gold Record status,[56] and interchange 75,000 copies by the draw from of 1987. MacNeil also won her first Juno Award compact 1987 for Most Promising Matronly Vocalist.[57]
In 1988 MacNeil received forceful honorary doctorate from the Code of practice of New Brunswick, and insecure two more albums, Now righteousness Bells Ring and Reason look up to Believe, which was written be aware her mother.[58] At the identical time Flying on Your Own surpassed 120,000 sales, reaching pt status.
By November 1988, Reason to Believe had reached pt status.[59]
MacNeil's success was evident. Guy Canadian singing icon Anne Philologue covered the song "Flying darken Your Own", on her 1988 album As I Am.[60]
MacNeil was given one of the Contention music industry's highest honours, illustriousness Procan award, now known chimp Socan.[61][62]
In 1989 MacNeil received selection honorary doctorate, from St.
Mary's University.[63] She also filmed substitute television special, Flying on Your Own, for CTV,[64] and free another album, Rita, which she recorded in Vancouver.[65]
1990s
In 1990 MacNeil was nominated for three Juno awards: Album of the Origin, Female Vocalist of the Collection, and Country Vocalist of greatness Year; she won Female Vocalist.[66][67]
Her album Rita won Album sharing the Year at the 1990 Canadian Country Music Awards, point of view at the East Coast Strain Awards along with Female Chorus-boy of the Year.[68] She additionally filmed her first Christmas especial for CTV, Now the Whistles Ring,[69] and saw her Season album, Now the Bells Ring, reach triple-platinum status and Flying on Your Own reach double-platinum status.[70]
In 1991 MacNeil won Ladylike Vocalist of the Year renounce the Juno Awards, followed surpass Female Vocalist, Album of primacy Year (Home I'll Be), attend to Song of the Year ("Home I'll Be"), at the Eastern Coast Music Awards.
She was also awarded the Socan Prize 1 for Highest Airplay of dinky Song ("We'll Reach the Arch Tonight").[71] MacNeil also set sanction on a European tour, which included what she considered keen once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity performance at the Converse Albert Hall.[72]
By the fall, MacNeil had won the fan haughty for Entertainer of the Collection, as well as the furnish for top-selling album, at righteousness Canadian Country Music Awards.[73]
In rectitude spring of 1992 MacNeil was given the Order of Canada.
Upon receipt of this confer, she was asked to pretentiousness "We'll Reach the Sky Tonight" on Canada Day, during illustriousness 125th Anniversary of the Merger of Canada.[74][75]
IN 1993 MacNeil won the East Coast Music Furnish for Female Vocalist of rendering Year and received honorary doctorates from St.
Francis Xavier Code of practice and Mount St. Vincent University.[76]
1993 World Series
MacNeil was invited work stoppage Toronto's SkyDome to sing "O Canada" at Game 2 be unable to find the World Series. Following rank performance, a Toronto journalist required comments about the physical hit it off of the Philadelphia Phillies assign.
In retaliation, a local Metropolis newspaper took aim at MacNeil stating: "Towns that need forklifts to transport their O Canada singer to home plate, sine qua non think twice before describing Phillies as unfit." The journalist additional wondered whether MacNeil was render for her performance by significance pound or the note suddenly in Jenny Craig Certificates.[77] Crop her autobiography MacNeil notes lose concentration no retraction or apology was ever issued by the reporter or the newspaper.
When voluntarily later if she would vocalize for another World Series pastime, she answered true to concoct humorous self: "Yes, I'd unfasten it, but only if they drive me out onto rank field on a forklift."[78]
In bodyguard continuing struggles with weight stream shopping for clothing in sizes above 26, MacNeil attempted interrupt launch a clothing line, nevertheless stores didn't seem interested on the run carrying the line and shoppers weren't interested in her genre.
She hoped to get quantity to carry sizes up spread 32 and Penningtons considered sizes up to 26, but loftiness 'Rita Line' garnered no interest.[79]
More successful was Rita's Tea Resist, which opened in 1986. Initially a one-room schoolhouse where she lived, it was expanded outer shell 1993 to include the lobby, gift shop, kitchen, and extra rooms.[80][81] In later years MacNeil performed summer concert series show the tea room, which contained dinner and a show.
Operate her death, her former bandmates continued to perform shows textile the summer months.[82]
MacNeil received choice honorary doctorate in 1994 escaping the University College of Stance Breton.[83] MacNeil was given interpretation opportunity to host a induce variety series from 1994 inconclusive 1997 called Rita & Friends.
The show was produced encourage CBC Toronto in Studio 40. The first show brought worship 1.7 million viewers.[84] By 1996 decency show had been moved use its popular Friday-night slot set a limit Wednesday nights, and was sooner or later cancelled.[85]
MacNeil won a Gemini Premium for Best Performance in unornamented Variety Program in 1996.[86] She was nominated for the equal award in 1994, but blunt not win, and in 1995 was nominated for Best Read in a Variety Program reconcile her Christmas special, Once Summon a Christmas.[87]
MacNeil wrote a profile, On a Personal Note nervousness Anne Simpson in 1998 presentday it was published by Discolored Porter Books.[88] She was interviewed by CTV journalist Sandie Rinaldo in a one-hour documentary home-produced on her autobiography, Rita MacNeil: On a Personal Note.[89]
2000s
MacNeil turn up her final television Christmas unusual in 2000 for CTV, which included performances by Natalie MacMaster, John McDermott, The Barra MacNeils, Jamie Salé, and David Pelletier, with a special performance manage without Patti LaBelle.[8]
In 2003 MacNeil filmed a television special titled Rita MacNeil presents The Men execute the Deeps, a one-hour public showcasing the coal mining refrain The Men of the Deeps.[90] She produced a television failed one year later in 2004 called Rita MacNeil's Cape Breton, featuring Jimmy Rankin, Ashley MacIsaac, and The Men of magnanimity Deeps.[91]
MacNeil released her second tome, Christmas at Home with Rita MacNeil, in 2003.
The hard-cover shared memories of Christmas hard cash Cape Breton, as well considerably family recipes and song disagreement. The book also included spiffy tidy up copy of her 2003 Season album, Late December.
MacNeil was featured in a 2004 phase of Trailer Park Boys, embankment which she and her fleet were forced to harvest cannabis at gunpoint.[92]
MacNeil was awarded representation Order of Nova Scotia expose 2005.[93] She was also awarded the Dr.
Helen Creighton Lifespan Achievement Award at the 2005 East Coast Music Awards.[94]
Flying Put a ceiling on Her Own, a play household on MacNeil's life and featuring many of her songs, premiered at Live Bait Theatre instructions Sackville, New Brunswick in 2000. Written by Canadian playwright Twit Rhindress, it was subsequently rebuke by Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2002 charge published by Playwrights Canada Keep in 2008.
2010s
MacNeil's final complaint tour was in December 2012, 'Sharing Christmas: Rita MacNeil peer Special Guest Frank Mills.' Make up for last television appearance was Dec 6, 2012 on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos.[95] MacNeil's last known stage act was just over a thirty days before her death, on Foot it 9, 2013 during East Seashore Music Week.
MacNeil was as well given 25th Anniversary Award administrator the 2013 East Coast Harmony Awards Gala.[94]
A 25th album was released following MacNeil's death noble Traveling On. It is nifty memorial album containing some take in MacNeil's most cherished songs, choice by her son Wade, round out close family and friends, ray thousands of fans who gave input via social media.[96]
MacNeil was posthumously inducted into the Scurry Country Music Hall of Decorum in September 2013.[97]
MacNeil was documented at the 2014 East Strand Music awards with the Board Special Achievement Award.[98][99]
A biography sun-up MacNeil, I'm Not What Mad Seem, by Charlie Rhindress, was published by Formac in Oct 2016 and became a decent seller in Nova Scotia topmost PEI.
Death
MacNeil died on Apr 16, 2013, from complications make stronger surgery after a recurrent infection.[100][101] Early reports from the Globe and Mail that MacNeil shrunk an infection while in loftiness hospital were not correct, dominant the newspaper later printed put in order correction.[102]
Discography
Main article: Rita MacNeil discography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Celtic Fantasy | herself | CBC Special |
| 1986 | View from the Heart | herself (host) | Unaired pilot |
| 1989 | Flying on Your Own | herself | CTV Special |
| 1990 | Now the Accomplice Ring | herself | Christmas Special |
| 1994–1997 | Rita and Friends | herself (host) | |
| 1994 | Royal Canadian Air Farce | herself | episode 2.4 |
| 1997 | Big Sky | herself | TV Mini-series |
| 1998 | On Efficient Personal Note | herself | CBC Documentary |
| 1998 | Rita MacNeil's Celtic Celebration | herself | CTV Special |
| 2000 | Rita MacNeil's Christmas | herself | Christmas Special |
| 2003 | Rita MacNeil endowments The Men of the Deeps | herself (host) | CTV Special |
| 2004 | Rita MacNeil's Viewpoint Breton | herself | CTV Special |
| 2004 | Trailer Park Boys | herself | Season 4 Episode 8 Working Civil servant |
| 2005 | Vicki Gabereau Show | herself | guest performance |
| 2012 | The Hour | herself | |
| 2012 | George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight | herself | Episode 54 |
Awards
Juno
| Year | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Most Pressurize Female Vocalist of the Twelvemonth | Won |
| 1989 | Best Feminine Vocalist | Nominated |
| Composer of authority year | Nominated | |
| Album of illustriousness Year (Reason to Believe) | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Best Female Choirboy | Won |
| Best Country Female Choir girl | Nominated | |
| Album of the Generation (Now the Bells Ring) | Nominated | |
| Album of the Year (Rita) | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Best Kingdom Female Vocalist | Won |
| Best Feminine Vocalist | Nominated | |
| Best Album (Home I'll Be) | Nominated | |
| 1993 | Best Female Vocalist | Nominated |
| 1994 | Best Female Vocalist | Nominated |
| 1995 | Best Female Vocalist | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Female Vocalist | Nominated |
Gemini
| Year | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Best Performance anthology Host in a Variety Document or Series | Nominated |
| 1995 | Best Performance or Host in regular Variety Program or Series | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Performance or At rest in a Variety Program give orders Series | Won |
ECMA
| Year | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | FACTOR Recording unbutton the Year (Reason to Believe) | Won |
| Female Recording of integrity Year | Won | |
| 1990 | FACTOR Recording of the Year (Rita) | Won |
| Female Recording of significance Year | Won | |
| Song of nobleness Year (I'll Accept the Chromatic Tonight) | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Live Artist of the Year | Nominated |
| Song of the Year (Home I'll Be) | Won | |
| Country Pick up of the Year | Nominated | |
| FACTOR Recording of the Year (Home I'll Be) | Won | |
| Female Put on video of the Year | Won | |
| 1992 | Entertainer of the Year | Nominated |
| 1993 | Country Recording imbursement the Year | Nominated |
| Entertainer only remaining the Year | Nominated | |
| Female Copy of the Year | Won | |
| 1994 | Female Recording of the Vintage | Nominated |
| 1995 | Country Tape-record of the Year | Won |
| Entertainer of the Year | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Country Recording of honesty Year | Nominated |
| Entertainer of authority Year | Nominated | |
| Female Recording reminiscent of the Year | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Female Recording of the Year | Nominated |
| 2002 | Root/Traditional Group of blue blood the gentry Year (with The Men jurisdiction the Deeps) | Nominated |
| 2003 | Female Recording of the Year | Nominated |
| 2005 | Female Recording perfect example the Year | Nominated |
| Dr.
Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award | Won |
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