Tara McDonald
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Tara McDonald is an English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 songwriter and vocalist widely recognised for a string of crossover hits both internationally and in the UK.
Tara achieved success working with Armand Van Helden
Armand Van Helden
Armand Van Helden is a record producer, DJ and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" , which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "U Don't Know Me ", which went to number 1...

 and co-writing with Axwell
Axwell
Axwell is a DJ, remixer, record producer and record label owner from Sweden. He is part of a three person group dubbed the Swedish House Mafia along with Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello...

 on the chart hits ‘My My My
My My My (Armand Van Helden song)
"My My My" is a song by Armand Van Helden. It contains a sample of the song "Comin' Apart" by Gary Wright. The track was produced in 2004 and included on the album Nympho. It is also featured in the video game Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 by Konami as a licensed track under the house music...

’ and ‘Feel The Vibe’. Both these projects debuted at #1 in the club charts, before peaking in the UK sales charts at #12 and #16 respectively. She has also collaborated with Todd Terry
Todd Terry
Todd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....

 co writing ‘Get Down’ and with David Guetta co writing ‘Delirious’ and ‘You Are Not Alone’. ‘Delirious
Delirious (David Guetta song)
"Delirious" is a house song performed by French DJ David Guetta and Tara McDonald for Guetta's third studio album, Pop Life. The song was released as the album's fourth single on January 31, 2008. Several remixes of the song, including mixes by Fred Rister, Marc Mysterio, Laidback Luke, and Arno...

’ – which featured on the ‘Pop Life
Pop Life (David Guetta album)
Pop Life is the third studio album released by French DJ David Guetta. It was released in 2007 and produced by Joachim Garraud. Longtime collaborator Chris Willis is the main vocalist; guest vocals are provided by JD Davis, Juliet, Tara McDonald, Cozi Costi and Thailand...

’ LP’ – was one the most heavily played records on European radio throughout 2008.

Tara regularly tours the international club circuit with her schedule taking her throughout Europe and on to Australia, Russia, Dubai, U.S.A, China, Egypt and Jordan. Her summer 2009 performance at Space in Ibiza, Spain within a weekly residency with Hed Kandi and 2010 at Es Paradise, Ibiza Rpcks bar and her legendary "Sunset Sessions" at Savannah beach bar, seeing Tara perform acoustic versions of her best known songs.

Recently, Tara signed a recording deal with Hed Kandi Records and is currently writing with David Guetta
David Guetta
Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...

, Todd Terry
Todd Terry
Todd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....

, Joey Negro
Joey Negro
Dave Lee is a British DJ and house music producer, also known by the stage name Joey Negro. Lee was born on the Isle of Wight. He has released music under a variety of pseudonyms, including the name Jakatta...

, Nervo, Laidback Luke
Laidback Luke
Laidback Luke is a Dutch DJ, producer. He was voted #46 on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJ list in 2008, before jumping to #27 in 2009 and jumping up 10 places in 2010....

, Afrojack
Afrojack
Nick van de Wall, born 9 September 1987, commonly known by his stage name Afrojack, is a Grammy Award winning Dutch music producer and DJ. Born and raised in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, He was listed as number 7 on DJ Mags top 100 DJs of 2011...

, Mowgli, TV Rock
TV Rock
TV Rock are an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit "Flaunt It" featuring Seany B. which reached #1 for 5 weeks and spent 39 weeks in the Australian ARIA Top 50...

, Sidney Samson
Sidney Samson
Sidney Samson is a Dutch DJ and dance musician. Samson started DJing at the age of 13, focusing on hip-hop music before working seriously on house music from 1999. He is a resident DJ at The Matrixx, a major Dutch nightclub and released "Bring That Beat Back" and "It’s all funked up" on the...

, Funkerman
Funkerman
Funkerman is a Dutch House DJ and producer, who together with DJ/Producer Fedde Le Grand and producer Raf runs the record company Flamingo Recordings...

 and David Vendetta
David Vendetta
David Paparusso, better known as David Vendetta , is French house producer and DJ.- Biography :David Vendetta's career as a professional DJ only starts in 2002...

.

Biography

At the age of 9, Tara performed in Les Miserables
Les Misérables
Les Misérables , translated variously from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims), is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century...

 as Eponine
Éponine
Éponine Thénardier is a fictional character in the 1862 novelLes Misérables by Victor Hugo.- Éponine in the novel :As children, Éponine and her younger sister Azelma are described as pretty, well-dressed, charming and a delight to see. They are pampered and spoiled by their parents the Thénardiers...

 at The Palace Theatre in the West End of London
West End of London
The West End of London is an area of central London, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings, and entertainment . Use of the term began in the early 19th century to describe fashionable areas to the west of Charing Cross...

. At 12, she won an international singing competition "The Danny Kaye Award" presented by Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...

 representing Great Britain and won. Her prize was to be a child ambassador for UNICEF for a year promoting & campaigning for the "rights of the child" throughout Europe and also Africa. Then at 13 Tara performed in the NTMT production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

" with Jude Law
Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...

 for the Edinborough festival in Scotland. At 14, Tara won the juvenile lead part in a new musical called St. Bernadette at the Dominion Theatre
Dominion Theatre
The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre on Tottenham Court Road close to St Giles Circus and Centre Point Tower, in the London Borough of Camden.-History:...

 in London, this part was also played by Martine McCutcheon
Martine McCutcheon
Martine McCutcheon is an English singer, television personality and Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress. McCutcheon had minor success as one third of the pop group Milan in the early 1990s; however, it was her role as Tiffany Mitchell in BBC's EastEnders that made her a household name in the UK...

. Unfortunately the musical only ran for a couple of months after bad reviews. Tara was schooled at the Italia Conti stage school then later moved to the Brit School
BRIT School
The London School for Performing Arts & Technology is a British school located in Selhurst, Croydon, in London, England, with a mandate to provide education and vocational training for the performing arts, media, art and design and the technologies that make performance possible...

 in Croydon
Croydon
Croydon is a town in South London, England, located within the London Borough of Croydon to which it gives its name. It is situated south of Charing Cross...

 other musical artists that went to this school are Jessie J, Adele, Imogen Heap & Amy Winehouse

Tara also worked as a backing dancer for Karen Ramirez
Karen Ramirez
Karen Ramírez is a female dance music singer . At age 6, she moved to Trinidad and Tobago and lived there for some time, before returning to London and entering university. In 1998 she had a nº1 hit single on the U.S...

 for promotion of her single "Looking for Love" and also appeared as a backing dancer for the Jungle Bros. single "I'll House You' 98".

Tara worked for the charity CSE (combined service entertainment) as a "forces sweetheart" providing entertainment for the UK armed forces around the world. Performing in far flung destinations such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leona, Sarajevo/Bosnia, Guam and the Falkland Islands to name a few. The aim of these performances was to act as a link back home and escapism for the men and woman stationed overseas.

In 2000 Planet Funk asked Tara to perform with them their big dance anthem "Chase the Sun" at Ibiza dance festival alongside Basement Jaxx and Faithless, which proved to be a big success. Tara continued to write songs for other artists and pay the rent by working as a session singer for a range of different artists/tours and TV shows. She sang lead and backing vocals on BBC1's hit programme, Strictly Come Dancing from 2004-2007. During this time she wrote "feel the Vibe til the morning comes" with Axwell which was a top 20 hit in the UK, followed by "My My My" with Armand Van Helden in 2006 which entered the UK commercial charts at number 11 and is still frequently played on radio now. Both tracks became big dance anthems and saw Tara perform these live on Pete Tongs BBC1 dance show in Ibiza. In 2007 Tara co wrote two tracks on the "Pop Life" album by David Guetta this resulted in the single "Delirious" which was one of the most played records on European radio in 2008 and an album track entitled "Your not alone". Tara also featured in the music video for this single.

2007 Tara worked with Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

 on his Dylanesque album backing singing and arranging some of the vocal harmonies. They met previously when Tara was backing singing for the Band Du lac on a special charity concert where Tara was backing singing for Gary Brooker
Gary Brooker
Gary Brooker, MBE, is an English singer, songwriter, pianist and founder of the rock band Procol Harum. Brooker was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours on 14 June 2003, in recognition of his charitable services.-Early life:Brooker was born in...

, Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

, Roger Walters. Tara backing sang on Bryan's next studio album a work of Dylan covers and toured with him for a year.

2008 Tara supported the charity Childline Rocks performing alongside Roger Daltrey (The Who), Thunder, Lulu & Russ Ballard at O2 Indigo, London.

In 2010 Tara was asked to be the cover model for French Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

's "Music is Fashion Sexy" edition. A special music edition of the magazine which was the biggest selling issue of French Playboy in 2010. Seven pictures of Tara were used in the edition dressing her as a modern day pin up with an Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

 influence. Bryan Ferry, David Vendetta
David Vendetta
David Paparusso, better known as David Vendetta , is French house producer and DJ.- Biography :David Vendetta's career as a professional DJ only starts in 2002...

 and David Guetta
David Guetta
Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...

 all wrote supporting articles about their experiences working with Tara McDonald.

Tara won the prestigious "Best Female Voice of 2010" in electronic music with OnlyForDj's magazine which launched a worldwide competition and it was voted by the public.

In 2011 Tara did well her part in a festival called 24hrs of Burning House, alongside Junior Jack
Junior Jack
Junior Jack is an Italian-Belgian house music producer and DJ.-Biography:...

, Sandy Rivera
Sandy Rivera
Sandy Rivera is an American record producer, House music DJ and label owner. Born in New York City, he is now based in New Jersey.-Biography:...

, Chocolate Puma, Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards is the name of:*Steve Edwards , American football player for the Chicago Bears*Steve Edwards , host of Good Day LA on KTTV...

and many other great artists. It was her second time visiting Serbia.

She is recognized by the sign she always wears - star within heart (she has a tattoo, either). ♥

Discography

PANDEMONIUM
David Guetta & Afrojack featuring Tara McDonald
EMI Records 2011

ALL ALONE
Quentin Mossimann & Tara McDonald
Universal Records 2011

DYNAMITE
Sidney Samson vs Tara McDonald
2011 Spinnin Records
Co written by Tara McDonald

SET ME ON FIRE
Sidney Samson vs Tara McDonald
2011 Spinnin Records
Co written by Tara McDonald

TOMORROW (GIVE INTO THE NIGHT)
Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Dada Life & Tara McDonald
2010 Smash The House
Co written by Tara McDonald

CAN'T STOP SINGING
Mowgli & Tara McDonald
2010 Data records
Co written by Tara McDonald

BEATS FOR YOU
Mischa Daniels & Tara McDonald
2010 Amarda Records
Co written by Tara McDonald

EVERYTHING
Funkerman & Tara McDonald
2010 Flamingo Records
Co written by Tara McDonald

I'M YOUR GODDESS
David Vendetta V Tara McDonald featuring Alim Gasimov.
2010 DJ Centre
Co written by Tara McDonald

ELEVATED
TV Rock & Tara McDonald
2010 Neon records
Co written by Tara McDonald

LA LA LAND
Joey Negro & Tara McDonald
2010 Blanco Negro Records
Co written by Tara McDonald

SHAKE IT
Lee Cabrera V Thomas Gold & Tara McDonald
2009 CR2 Records

REVOLUTION
The Vibers & Tara McDonald
2009 Roton Records
Co written by Tara McDonald

LOVE CRAZY
Warren Clarke & Tara McDonald
2008 Hed Kandi
Co written by Tara McDonald

DELIRIOUS
David Guetta feat. Tara McDonald
2008 EMI Records
Co written by Tara McDonald
(From the album "Pop Life")

YOU'RE NOT ALONE
David Guetta
2008 EMI Records
Co written by Tara McDonald
(From the album "Pop Life")

PLAY ON
Todd Terry Allstars feat. Tara McDonald
2007 Strictly Rhythm Records
Co written by Tara McDonald

GET DOWN
Todd Terry Allstars feat. Tara McDonald
2007 Strictly Rhythm Records
Co written by Tara McDonald

TAKE ME I'M YOURS & LET ME IN
Stonebridge
2007 Stoneboy Records
Co written by Tara McDonald
(From the album "Music Takes Me")

MY MY MY (FUNKTUARY)
Armand Van Helden feat. Tara McDonald
2006 Southern Fried Records

FEEL THE VIBE (TIL THE MORNING COMES)
Axwell feat. Tara McDonald
2005 Data Records/MOS
Co written by Tara McDonald

‘my my my’, Armand Van Helden Feat. Tara McDonald
TOP#12 UK Single Charts (2004)
TOP#4 Australian Single Charts (2004)
TOP #5 Dutch Single Charts (2004)
TOP#5 Belgium Single Charts (2004)
TOP#7 Norweigen Single Charts (2004)
TOP#5 Danish Single Charts (2004)
TOP#2 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart

‘Delirious’, David Guetta and Tara McDonald for Guetta’s third album, Pop Life (2007)
TOP#2 Belgium Single Charts (2008)
TOP#4 Romanian Singles Charts (2008)
TOP#9 French Sincle Charts (2008)

‘Feel the vibe’, Axwell Feat. Tara McDonald
TOP #16 UK Single Charts (2006)

Other people about her

'The white singer with the black voice’ (FHM)

‘She can give real authenticity to house music ' (David Guetta)

‘She is a tigress on stage, Really ! She always gives a professional and assured performance !’ (David Guetta)

‘She has absolutely everything, the whole package! The voice, the charisma, the attitude,the stage presence and the professionalism (…) she is an amazing performer.’ (Bryan Ferry)

‘The chic sexbomb of electro music’ (Playboy)

'She has the gift to push a project beyond its limits.’ (David Vendetta)

‘Beware, this singer is talented !’ (Time Out)

‘The most glamorous singer of the scene dance ' (Pacha Magazine)

‘Tara brings the whole pop vibe to a project and a keen edge, to take a track to the next level.’ (Todd Terry)

‘Pop Life is my favorite album of the moment’ (Madonna, 2008)
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