Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Maddy Prior
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
{{Short description|English singer}}{{BLP refimprove|date=May 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Maddy Prior | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | image = Maddy Prior 7 (cropped).jpg | caption = Prior at [[Fairport's Cropredy Convention]] in 2016. | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Madeleine Edith Prior | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|8|14|df=y}} | origin = [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], England | instrument = [[Singing|Vocals]], [[percussion]], banjo | genre = [[British folk rock]], [[Folk music|folk]] | occupation = Singer, dancer | years_active = 1967–present | label = [[Park Records|Park]] | associated_acts = [[Steeleye Span]]<br/>[[Maddy Prior#Tim Hart and Maddy Prior|Maddy Prior and Tim Hart]]<br/>[[Brass Monkey (band)|Brass Monkey]]<br/>[[Silly Sisters]]<br/>[[The Carnival Band (folk group)|The Carnival Band]]<br>[[June Tabor]]<br>[[Rose Kemp]] (Prior's daughter) | website = [http://www.maddyprior.co.uk/ www.maddyprior.co.uk] }} '''Madeleine Edith Prior''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (born 14 August 1947) is an [[British folk rock|English folk rock]] singer, best known as the lead vocalist of [[Steeleye Span]].<ref>''The Times'', 28 January 2000; interview with Maddy Prior</ref> She was born in Blackpool and moved to [[St Albans]] in her teens. Her father, [[Allan Prior]], was co-creator of the police drama ''[[Z-Cars]]''. She was married to Steeleye bass guitarist [[Rick Kemp]], and their daughter, [[Rose Kemp]], is also a singer. Their son, Alex Kemp, is also a guitarist and has deputised for his father playing bass guitar for Steeleye Span. She was part of the singing duo 'Mac & Maddy', with [[Mac MacLeod]]. She then performed with [[Tim Hart]] and recorded two albums with him, before they helped to found the group Steeleye Span, in 1969. She left Steeleye Span in 1997, but returned in 2002, and has toured with them since. With [[June Tabor]] she was the singing duo [[Silly Sisters]]. She toured with the Carnival Band, in 2007, and with [[Giles Lewin]] and [[Hannah James (musician) |Hannah James]], in 2012 and 2013. She has released singles and albums as a solo artist, with these bands and in several collaborations. She runs an Arts Centre called Stones Barn, in [[Bewcastle]], in Cumbria, which offers residential courses.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)