Maggie MacNeal

Maggie MacNeal, born Sjoukje Lucie van 't Spijker, later called JEE Sahib (Tilburg, may 5, 1950) 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 voice training in her childhood she does in 1971 audition with record company Phonogram. Under the direction of producer Hans van Hemert (Luv ', Kamahl, etc.) she takes in the same year 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 no hit, but he is the beginning of a long, successful career in music. ===Mouth & MacNeal[ Edit] === In the summer of 1971 is Van 't Spijker linked to singer big mouth and thus the duo Mouth & MacNeal launched (Ventura has chosen a slightly different spelling of last name for Maggies). Their first single Hey you love is touch and reached the 3rd place in the Towering Thirty. In the period 1972-1974 they score a few large national and international hits. The small, innocent girl and the big guy with the big mouth (' Big Mouth ') sequentially with the duo to save scores and How do you do and Hello-A two number-one hits in Netherlands. In this period they reach a total of seven times the top 10 in Netherlands. With "How do you do" also in autumn 1972 they score a top 10 hit in the United States and get them some silver, gold and platinum records. Do In 1974 Mouth & MacNeal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. Their song "I see a star" ("I see a star") is good for a third position. The duo goes late 1974 after disagreement apart. Mouth goes through with Little Eve (Ingrid Kup) and scores two more hits; MacNeal continues with other projects. ===Solo[ Edit] === Maggie MacNeal in 1991In 1975 MacNeal, along with her husband Frans Smit, a band: the Maggie MacNeal Band. After the single "Nothing else to do" is "When you're gone" was released and the song achieved the third place in the Top 40 and the fourth place in the National Charts. In Brazil it becomes a number one hit and is the single gold. Their self-titled debut is crowned with gold plate. In 1976 reached the single "back to the coast", drawn by the book week-lp "sing your mother tongue" in which Dutch artists also execute a Dutch poem on own melodies, the top 10.
 * 1.1 Mouth & MacNeal
 * 1.2 Solo
 * 1.3 in Dutch
 * Radio 2 Top 2000 1.4
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With the second lp Fools together ' they drag a Edison in the guard and the eponymous title track is a hit. Her effort to that same year to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "only you" failed: she ends up third. In between, she sings some title songs for movies, namely for The great battle (1978, starring Henry Fonda) and for the American film The one and only (1978, starring Henry Winkler).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1979 the United States goes to an attempt to MacNeal to do in to hooks on the disco craze with a typical American disco plate. With producer Michael Lloyd she takes the lp "Nighttime" on, however without success. The disco single retrieves the 48th place of the national hit parade.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1980 with the Song Contest, for which MacNeal does she is designated and which this year so no pre-selection is. With the typical Eurovision Song "Amsterdam" extracts them fifth place. Despite this success (there is even a French, a German and an English version included) comes in the National hit parade does not go beyond the 39th place. Hits stay away from then also out for many, already brings them out on MacNeal single ("Why your lady says goodbye", "Together", "Be my friend", "Be my lover tonight", "I've got you, you've got me"). In 1983, she once again just in the picture when they once again a film title, this time a vocalist yet for the Dutch feature film "murder in ecstasy": "Still can't believe it".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">MacNeal like in 1984 by her daughter Emily, and from then on it is completely silent around the singer. Let them anything In 1985 with her single "You are my hope", led by producer Hans van Hemert, but the song flops. ===Dutch-Speaking<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1989 comes MacNeal back with a Dutch-speaking project: the album fun for later. This album contains little commercial success. She goes in the following years as presenter in television work and is seen in ' win or get out ' and the ' Karaoke Show '. In 1997, after years of musical silence, appears a new single ("Only love") and in 1999 she takes the song "Old friend" with Katrina Leskanich, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Starting from 2000 makes MacNeal part of girl group the Dutch Divas, which initially consisted of MacNeal, Marga Bult and Sandra Reemer, with which an album was recorded and singles were released. Reemer disappears and is replaced by Justine Pelmelay. Also in this composition is one EP. Also leave the Group decide if Pelmelay MacNeal and Bump to continue as a duo. The duo, with the help of Ben Cramer takes a single on, where there is also a piece of "How do you do" back in is processed, which is reminiscent of the successful times with the big mouth died in 2004.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In november 2008 known duo Mouth & MacNeal going to perform again. MacNeal goes along with Arie Ribbens on stage. the first performance is on 20 december in the brabanthallen in 's-Hertogenbosch during ' The winners: Eurovision in concert '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">MacNeal is thirty-three years married to musician Frans Smit, from whom she has her daughter, in June 2005 if this dies. In February 2009 she married again with her friend Klaus Metternich.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  In 2012 appeared the book ' Mouth & MacNeal, duo willy-nilly ', written by Roel Smit and touring them along with Cramer in the theatre programme Jukebox on Tour. ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===