Maggie MacNeal



Maggie MacNeal, born Sjoukje Lucie van 't Spijker , later Sjoukje Smit called ( Tilburg , May 51950 ) is a Dutch singer.



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[ hide ]  *1 Biography  ==Biography [ edit] == Maggie MacNeal during a rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 1980After a classical vocal training in her youth she does in 1971 audition with record company Phonogram . Under the guidance of producer Hans van Hemert (Kamahl, Luv ', etc.) in the same year she takes her first single "I heard it through the grapevine" on (under the name Maggie Macneil, a Scottish corruption of Van 't Spijker). The single is a hit, but it is the beginning of a long, successful career in music. ===Mouth & MacNeal [ edit] === In the summer of 1971, Van 't Spijker to singer Willem Duyn linked and so the duo Mouth & MacNeal launched (Van Hemert has a slightly different spelling Maggies name chosen). Their first single Hey you love has been hit and reached the 3rd place in the Thunderous Thirty . In the period 1972 - 1974 they scored a couple of big national and international hits. The little, innocent girl and the big man with the big mouth ('Big Mouth') stores and the duo subsequently scored with How do you do, and Hello-A two number one hits in the Netherlands. During this period, they reach a total of seven times the top 10 in the Netherlands. With "How do you do" they additionally scoring in the autumn of 1972 a top 10 hit in the United States and get some silver, gold and platinum records. In 1974 Mouth & MacNeal participate in the Eurovision Song Contest . Their song " I see a star " ( "I see a star" ) is good for a third position. In late 1974, the duo comes after disagreements apart. Mouth continues Little Eve ( Ingrid Kup ) and scored two hits, MacNeal will continue with other projects. ===Solo [ edit] === Maggie MacNeal in 1991In 1975 MacNeal, starting with her ​​husband Frans Smit a band: the Maggie MacNeal Band . After the single "Nothing else to do" is "When you're gone" and released the song reached the third place in the Top 40 and the fourth in the National Hit Parade . In Brazil it is a number 1 hit and the single gold. The corresponding self-titled debut album is crowned with gold. In 1976, the single reached "Back to the coast", drawn from the Book Week-lp "Sing your native language" in which Dutch artists own melodies to carry a Dutch poem, even the top 10.
 * 1.1 Mouth & MacNeal
 * 1.2 Solo
 * 1.3 Dutch
 * 1.4 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 2 External links

The second album 'Fools together' she drags an Edison hold and the eponymous title track is a hit. Her attempt to join the Eurovision Song Contest with the song in the same year , "You only" failed: she finishes third. In between, she sings a few songs for movies in title, namely The great battle (1978, with, among others, Henry Fonda ) and the American film The one and only (1978, starring Henry Winkler ).

In 1979 MacNeal goes to the United States to do in an attempt to respond to the disco craze with a typical American disco record. With producer Michael Lloyd she takes the album "Night Time" on, but without success. The same disco single takes the 48th place of the National Hit Parade.

In 1980 MacNeal joins the contest for which it is designated and which this year is not a pre-selection. With the typical Eurovision song "Amsterdam"she takes fifth place. Despite this success (there is even a French, a German and an English version included) comes into the National hitlist no further than the 39th place. Hits continue even out for MacNeal from over, though she brings out a lot of single ( "Why your lady says goodbye" ,"togetherness" , "Be my friend" , "Be my lover tonight" , "I've got you, you've got me " ). In 1983 she is back here in the picture when they again inzingt a movie title, this time for the Dutch feature film "Murder in ecstasy" : "Still can not believe it" .

MacNeal birth in 1984 her daughter Sanne, and since then it is quiet around the singer. In 1985 they let anything touch with her ​​single "You are my hope" with producer Hans van Hemert, but the song flopped. ===Dutch [ edit] === In 1989 MacNeal comes back with a Dutch project: the album Fun for later . This album has little commercial success. She goes in later years as a presenter in television work and has been featured in "Win or Go 'and' Karaoke Show.In 1997 there is a new single (appears after years of musical silence, "Only love" ), and in 1999 she takes the song "Old friend" with Katrina Leskanich, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 .

From 2000 MacNeal is part of girl group the Dutch Diva's, which initially consisted of MacNeal, Marga Bult and Sandra Reemer , which recorded an album and singles were released. Reemer disappears and is replaced by Justine Pelmelay . Also in this composition is a single cast. If Pelmelay also leaves the group decided MacNeal and Bult to continue as a duo. The duo with the help of Ben Cramer a single on which a piece of "How do you do" in is processed, again reminiscent of the successful times in the back in 2004 deceased Willem Duyn .

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">In November 2008, is known duo Mouth & MacNeal will reoccur. MacNeal goes along with Arie Ribbens on stage. The first performance was on December 20 in the Brabanthallen in Den Bosch during 'The winners: Eurovision in concert.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">MacNeal is married thirty-three years with musician Frans Smit, from whom she has her daughter, if in June 2005 dies. In February 2009, she married again with her ​​boyfriend Klaus Metternich. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  In 2012 the book "Mouth & MacNeal, duo-nilly," appeared written by Roel Smit and they tour together with Cramer in the theater on Jukebox Tour . ===Radio 2 Top 2000 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ===