With her debut single "This Is The Life", the then just 20-year-old Amy Macdonald lands a Europe-wide chart success in 2007. Catchy pop-rock paired with folkloric elements is also in the following years the secret recipe that gives the dark-haired Scottish various number 1 albums.
A name like from a highland saga: In fact, however, Amy Macdonald comes from the Scottish metropolis of Glasgow. Born on August 25, 1987 in the suburb of Bishopbriggs, she discovered her love of music at an early age. Inspired by the compatriots of the indie band Travis learns Amy to play the guitar on her own. Pete Doherty, frontman of the Babyshambles and the Libertines, is also an important musical influence for the artist. From the beginning, she writes her own songs and presents them at numerous gigs in her hometown.
The path to the big stage
As is so often the case when you make plans, life goes other ways. Actually, Amy has only one thing in mind after her school days: she wants to enroll at the university for social sciences. But then everything turns out differently: none other than Paul Weller - former singer and guitarist of the British band The Jam and also known as the "Godfather of Britpop" - hires Amy Macdonald as support for his German tour. Her debut album "This Is The Life" (2007) climbs to No. 1 in the UK charts - in Germany it reaches the Top 3. The single of the same name becomes a Europe-wide hit.
Also on her further career path Paul Weller supports the singer-songwriter. Thus, she records her second album "A Curious Thing" (2010), which goes platinum in Germany, in his Black Barn Studio. Top positions in the German, Austrian, Swiss and UK album charts are also reached by the third album "Life In A Beautiful Light" (2012). The singles "Slow It Down" and "4th Of July" may henceforth be missing on any tour of Amy Macdonald.
Tickets for her shows Amy Macdonald sells by the thousands and is constantly on the road in Europe. But this has its price: after a breakdown in December 2012, the artist decides to take a break for a year. Privately, too, the course is set for a new beginning: Amy separates from her longtime partner and fiancé, the professional footballer Steve Lovell.
From the magic of a new beginning
Shortly thereafter, she reports back in old top form. With her appearance at the FIFA Awards 2012 Amy proves her love for football as well as by her performance of the unofficial anthem "The Flower Of Scotland" before the international matches of the Scottish eleven. Her self-composed songs "Pride" and "The Green And The Blue" are also about Amy's fan love for Glasgow Rangers. In May 2018, she said yes to kicker Richard Foster.
Graded with numerous awards such as the Echo Pop 2012 as best international artist and the Swiss Music Award in various categories, Amy Macdonald has already arrived in the European pop Olympus. She also proved to be a creative mastermind with a lot of heart when she decided to donate part of the proceeds from her Christmas single "This Christmas Day," released in December 2017, to British Alzheimer's research.
Amy Macdonald is using the pandemic-induced break to record new songs and will release her fifth album, "The Human Demands," in October 2020. Now in her early 30s, the songwriter addresses aging and the hopes and fears associated with it on it. Musically, she goes back to her beginnings in many songs. In addition to folk-pop anthems, ballads and songs reminiscent of the 1990s rock band The Cranberries also find their way onto the record - perfect additions to the setlists of atmospheric live concerts by Amy Macdonald.
