Christine McVie
Christine McVie was born in Bouth, England, United Kingdom on July 12th, 1943 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 79, Christine McVie biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Christine Anne Perfect (born 12 July 1943), better known as Christine McVie after her marriage to John McVie, is best known as one of Fleetwood Mac's three leading singers and keyboardist.
She joined the band in 1970. She has also released three solo albums.
McVie is best known for her smoky, contralto vocals, and her simple yet poignant songs, which mainly focused on love and marriage.
AllMusic describes her as a "Unabashedly easy-on-the-ears singer/songwriter and the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's most popular songs." In 1998, eight of her songs appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album, and she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac and received the British Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
After almost 30 years with the band, she decided to leave and lived in semi-retirement for nearly 15 years.
In 2004, McVie released a single album as a performer.
In September 2013, McVie appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at London's O2 Arena.
She returned to the band in October 2014 and is preparing for Fleetwood Mac's On with the show tour. The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors presented her with the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Early life
McVie was born in Bouth, Lancashire, and grew up in the Bearwood area near Birmingham. Cyril Percy Absell Perfect, her father, was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham, and she taught violin at St Peter's Grammar School, Birmingham, Birmingham. Beatrice Edith Maud (Reece) Perfect, McVie's mother, was a medium, psychic, and faith healer. At Westminster Abbey, McVie's grandfather was an organist.
Although McVie was introduced to piano at four years old, she did not pursue music seriously until age 11, when she was reintroduced to it by Philip Fisher, a local musician and school friend of McVie's older brother, John McVie. McVie, a classical singer, moved her musical interest to rock and roll when her brother, John, returned home with a Fats Domino songbook. The Everly Brothers were among the early influences.
Early music
McVie studied sculpture at Birmingham's Moseley School of Art for five years, with the intention of becoming an art teacher. She met a number of budding musicians in Britain's blues scene during that period. Stan Webb and Andy Silvester, who were in a band called Sounds Of Blue, were her first foray into music. The couple, knowing that McVie had musical ability, they begged her to join. Spencer Davis used to sing with her. By the time McVie graduated from art college, Sounds of Blue had shattered, and she didn't have enough funds to launch herself into the art world, she moved to London and briefly worked as a department store window dresser.
McVie discovered in 1967 that Andy Silvester and Stan Webb, her ex-bandmates, were making a blues band named Chicken Shack, and was looking for a pianist. She wrote to them, asking to join. They accepted and invited her to perform keyboards/piano and lead background vocals. "It's Okay With Me Baby," written by and starring McVie, was Chicken Shack's debut. She stayed with Chicken Shack for two albums, during which her true passion for the blues became evident, not just in her Sonny Thompson-style piano playing, but also in her authentic "blue" voice. "I'd Rather Go Blind," which featured McVie on lead vocals, was a hit for Chicken Shack. In both 1969 and 1970, McVie was given a Melody Maker award for female vocalists. After marrying Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie a year before, McVie left Chicken Shack in 1969.
Personal life
Peter Green, the best man when McVie married John McVie in 1968, was the best man. They spent their honeymoon at a Birmingham hotel with Joe Cocker, who happened to be staying there, before embarking on their own separate bands. The couple divorced in 1976, but they have remained close friends and maintained a professional relationship. Curry Grant, Fleetwood Mac's lighting engineer, had an affair with her during the recording of Rumours, which inspired the song "You Make Loving Fun." Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys dated her from 1979 to 1982. On October 18, 1986, McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eddy Quintela. "Little Lies" was Quintela and McVie's joint effort on a number of songs together, including "Life of Drones." Quintela died in 2020 after they divorced in 2003.
McVie lived in Los Angeles in a house that had previously owned by Joan Collins and Elton John during Fleetwood Mac's heyday in the 1970s. She retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1998 and concentrated on her solo projects in Wickhambreaux, Kent, where she retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1990. McVie found inspiration in the home's country setting, not only writing songs but also renovating the house. McVie, who returned to Fleetwood Mac in 2014, began investing more time in London and put the house on the market in 2015.