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Amy Macdonald

Amy Macdonald is of Scottish origin, born in Glasgow in 1987 on August 25^th . She discovers her talent at the age of 12 after listening to the albums of Travis, she often takes the guitar from her father to learn to play their songs. She becomes a self-taught musician.

She wrote, in one of her first texts on the fanaticism of her sister about Ewan McGregor. She was on stage at 13 with a group of musicians who came to her school to learn music , they gave a concert in Glasgow.
She quit school at 16 years old after a show of Pete Doherty, and the next day she took her guitar and wrote her first song “This is the life” , the first release met a great success . The title of the song is also the title of her album. The album was a great success and sold more than three million copies around the world. It thus remained 754 consecutive weeks in the charts of 17 countries among whose France and in Great Britain she became n°1 .

In February 2008 , Amy Macdonald began a tour that began in August in the united Kingdom and in Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the United States and Spain . Besides, she participated in several festivals including the Glastonbury Festival in June.

In spring 2009, Amy Macdonald started the writing of her second album entitled “A Curious Thing”. The album was released on March 8^th , 2010. It included the title “Do not Tell Me That It's Over” that became the first single, followed by “Spark”, “This Pretty Face”, “Love” and “Your Time Will Come”. The album, even if it was less successful than its predecessor, was well received by the public and still sold a million copies worldwide.

Amy Macdonald started working on her third album in early 2011 and the announcement was made at the end of the year.
In late November, we learned that Amy Macdonald contributed to an album for “Save the Children”. She performed the song “I Only Want to Be With You” by Dusty springflied ,

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