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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...