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Loreena McKennitt
A delicate harpist and a singer of striking purity, Canadian Loreena McKennitt
channelled her love and understanding of Celtic music into an engagingly fragile
music style that proved to be key in the rise of new age music through the
1980s. Yet nobody was more surprised with the direction of her career than
McKennitt herself as her ambition in her younger days had always been to be a
vet. The daughter of a nurse and a livestock trader, her first love was
classical music. She started playing piano at the age of five, joined a
childrens choir, did some dancing and spent most of he...
