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MP3 Margaret McClure - Sound Of The Storm
6 MP3 Songs
POP: with Live-band Production, POP: Folky Pop
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Singer, Songwriter, Surfer and Cancer Survivor.!! Margaret has always loved the power of words and the impact they have when put to music. She has an extensive music and dance performance background. A self proclaimed nonstop idea person, she uses the emotion of real life experience that everyone can identify with in her writing. Music critics have called her lyrics intellectual, poetic, edgy and cool, her music is modern and origional. They say her voice is beautiful, sensual and instantly recognizable.
In 2005 Margaret is releasing a new cd and is stronger than ever. She has teamed up with hit songwriter/producer TomTrapp and talented music composer/singer Brian Russell as well as other up and coming writers. They are writing in styles ranging from indie rock, pop, americana to electronica d&b, r&b and jazz. She has multiple top 10 songs at broadjam and ride on music .com. Go to https://www.tradebit.com to check it out !
Hardly a moment passes by that Margaret McClure isn''t thinking about music. She writes daily, and keeps a pen and paper with her wherever she goes in order to avoid any missed opportunities that may come from hearing something in her head, but not having a device with which to capture it. If she is in a situation that doesn''t allow such equipment, she improvises.
"Last week, I was surfing and I heard the coolest thing," recalls Margaret, "so I rode a wave in, borrowed a pen from the park ranger, peeled the label off my water bottle, and started writing. I came home, emailed the lyrics to Tom Trapp (a collaborator in Texas), and six hours later he e-mailed me a mp3 of the song that I am now recording with Andy Machin at Big Rock Studios. Meanwhile, back in the waves, my surfing friends were wondering what the hell I was doing."
She says this sort of thing happens all the time. Something is triggered inside of her without any notice, and before she knows it, she is scribbling on a cocktail napkin in the middle of a noisy bar, or calling herself on her cell phone to sing a new idea into her voicemail. Then, when she has relocated to a more proper working environment, she inputs her thoughts into her laptop, refines them until she is confident they contain some sort of "magic," and then she sends her initial concepts off to one of several collaborators, with whom she works to build the music around her lyrics and ideas. In other instances, she writes around music that her various partners have already created, listening to the material over and over again until it tells her what needs to be said.
It all sounds like a lot of effort and energy, but for Margaret, it''s simply a passion, and this passion makes itself known in everything she creates. On her upcoming album, Tears for Jack, what Margaret creates is something she describes as "a cross between the alternative rock edge of Sheryl Crow, the texture of Norah Jones, and the emotion and modern sound of Dido, with a little Americana thrown in and a bit of European flair." Throughout every song, Margaret implements a wide variety of styles, including everything from electronic drum and bass, to alternative pop, rock, and Americana. But no matter what she uses as an approach, her lyrics are always a highlight. "I really focus on the lyrics," she says. "I like irony and emotion."
Margaret grew up in southern California, spending much of her free time at the beach and in the ocean. She got her musical start as a young child when she gave concerts in her backyard, singing the Beatles or Elton John into a fake microphone, choreographing her own funky dance routines, and charging a quarter for admission. As she grew older, she studied piano, dance, theater, and voice, gaining a wide variety of performing experience along the way. Most of her musical training, however, came through her training in classical violin. She eventually worked her way up to the position of first violinist with the Orange County District Orchestra. She was also admitted to the Eldorado School for the mentally gifted, where she played with the school''s string quartet,
From there, Margaret worked as a demo singer and sang backup for a variety of bands. She became engulfed by the punk scene for a while, and admits that the music is still an influence, due to her love of the honesty, edginess, and rebellion that bubbles within it. Rebellion was a common theme throughout her early years, and she describes herself as a moody and depressed child that always took extreme risks and lived on the edge. "A jack of all trades and master of none," she says. "Hyperactive and unfocused." She skied, surfed, sang, and so on, but was never able to focus on the same thing for very long.
But as she grew older, Margaret suffered a number of hardships and traumatic events that helped bring her life into focus. In addition to bad relationships and the deaths of close friends, Margaret began a battle with cancer last year, and as she now makes her final steps of recovery, she finds herself with a new outlook on life and a newfound sense of strength. "Instead of letting the bad take me down, I am using it for good and maybe to help others," she says. "I don''t have any regrets."
Two other turning points in Margaret''s life came with the births of her two daughters. While they were babies, Margaret worked as a ceramic artist while taking vocal lessons as an effort to rekindle the passion for music that she had recently put on the back burner. Her girls served as her inspiration, and Margaret set out to write a song for them, a "last living will and testament," as she puts it, to make sure that if anything ever happens to her, her girls will still have a piece of her. The result was the powerful song, "Sound of the Storm," but Margaret didn''t stop there, and before she knew it, she had enough material for a debut album of the same name. "I had such a huge outpouring of support from friends or anyone who listened to the song, that I was encouraged to keep writing and recording songs," she says. "By writing that song, I realized this is my purpose and what I was meant to do in life. I always knew it in my heart that I was meant to write and sing songs, but it took the love for my two girls to give me the courage to face it."
And face it she has. For the last four years, Margaret has focused what she describes as her "out of control energy" on singing and songwriting, and she says she has never been happier. She writes as often as she can, and when she isn''t writing, she is studying the craft. Ultimately, her goal is simply to have her music heard and respected, and she takes one more giant step toward making that happen with her latest offering, Tears for Jack. She has set high standards for herself, and there are certain things she hopes to one day accomplish, but in the end, her goals are pretty straightforward. "I just love writing songs," she says. "It is fun for me, like a big puzzle, and I want to leave something behind in the world, something good. I just want to be able to keep writing and growing as an artist."
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