MARY HOPKIN
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Hopkin was born in Pontardawe, Wales into a Welsh-speaking family. She took weekly singing lessons as a child and began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Set and Mary. She released an EP of Welsh language songs for a local record label called Cambrian, based in her home town, before signing to The Beatles' Apple Records. The model Twiggy recommended her to Paul McCartney. She became one of the first artists to record on the Beatles' Apple record label. Her debut single, "Those Were the Days", produced by Paul McCartney, sold over one and a half million copies in the United States alone, and became a number one hit in the UK Singles Charts. In 1969 she released her debut album, Postcard, also produced by McCartney. The next single, "Goodbye" written by Paul McCartney, was kept off the top of the charts by the Beatles' single "Get Back", it reached Number 2 in the UK. In 1970, she represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest singing "Knock Knock, Who's There?". Hopkin came second to "All Kinds of Everything", performed by Dana. Her second album, Earth Song, Ocean Song, was released by Apple and produced by her husband Tony Visconti. After marrying Visconti in 1971, Hopkin withdrew from the pop music scene to have a family. Although Hopkin did not stop recording. With the help of Visconti, she released in 1972 a Christmas song "Mary Had a Baby" and the single "Summertime Summertime" under the name of Hobby Horse. Although no other singles or albums came out in her name until 1976, she sang on numerous recordings that her husband Visconti produced, such as those featuring Tom Paxton, Ralph McTell, David Bowie, Thin Lizzy, Hazel O'Connor, Elaine Paige, etc. On all of these recordings she is credited as Mary Visconti. In 1976, she returned to recording under her own name and released an Edith Piaf song, "If You Love Me". Hopkin and Visconti divorced in 1981. Around 1984, Peter Skellern asked her to join him and Julian Lloyd Webber in a band called Oasis. A tour of the UK was planned but was brought to an abrupt end because Hopkin became ill. The group disbanded shortly afterwards. Early in 1990, she sang with The Chieftains at the London Palladium and later joined them on a tour of the UK. She continued to do projects of her choosing; working with Benny Gallagher and Jim Diamond, duetted with Dolly Parton, released a Christmas recording "Snowed Under" and sang the song "Yderyn pur (Gentle Bird)" in 2009.
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