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Malea McGuinness
Rock / Classic Rock / Folk Rock

"Moving On" currently 9 on fmqbAC



Los Angeles ~~~, New York
United States

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Last Login:  2/9/2010
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Member Since7/9/2006
Band WebsiteWWW.MALEAMUSIC.COM
Band Members



Malea McGuinness - Vocals, Guitar and Keyboards
Justin Reinhardt - Keyboards
Nick Rosen - Bass
Shay Godwin - Drums
Anthony King - Guitar


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Influences Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Eagles,Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt,Heart,Stevie Nicks,Todd Rundgren,Elton John,BeeGees,James Taylor,Eva Cassidy, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt,The Allman Brothers,Grahm Parsons,Bill Withers, Roberta Flack, Rickie Lee Jones,Carol King,Stevie Wonder,Pink Floyd,PhoebeSnow,Marvin Gaye, Minnie Ripperton,Cocteau Twins,Prince,Rita Coolidge,Earth Wind and Fire,Kool and the Gang,Patsy Cline,Willy Nelson,Carly Simon,Donna Summer,Sly and the Family Stone,Jeff Buckley,Queen,Sting,Crosby Stills and Nash,the Carpenters,Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton,Boston, Cat Stevens,Boz Scaggs, Jim Croce, Jackson Brown,Kenny Loggins, Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack,ELO,Dusty Springfield,Chicago,Bread,Supertramp,Annie Lennox, Steve Perry,
Record LabelMalea Music
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Feb 18 2010 10:00P
Private Event San Diego, California
Mar 13 2010 8:00P
Canyon Club, opening for Toad & Wet Sprocket Agoura Hills, California
May 4 2010 8:00P
Acoustic Performance Maui, Hawaii
May 7 2010 8:00P
Private Event Kauai, Hawaii
Jul 14 2010 9:00P
TBA East Hampton, New York

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   About Malea McGuinness

MALEA McGUINNESS’ remarkable story is told through her music, with a world-class voice that has been heard on Broadway and in operas, and now the singer-songwriter brings the songs on her new album CLOSE AS AIR to life. Throughout, her warm, sensual vocals take flight in an array of tunes reflecting her pop, rock and country influences.

An exotic beauty who describes herself as a “mutt,” the daughter of an Irish Green Beret father and a Korean mother she barely got to know, MALEA giggles infectiously, “I used to always say, the Irish side of me likes to drink, and the Korean side really can’t handle it.”

Born in Fort Hood, TX, MALEA spent two years in Seoul, Korea, then, at five, she and her younger sister were sent to live with her father’s father and stepmother on Long Island, where they were strictly restricted in their access to pop culture, such as rock music, TV and movies.

“I always loved to sing, but my grandparents kept telling me to be quiet,” she laughs. “When I was young, I always used to perform in front of the mirror, but I never dreamt of doing this for a living. I wanted to be a school teacher.”

After attending prestigious music programs at Tanglewood, Oberlin Conservatory and the Chautauqua Institution, MALEA went on to pursue singing opera at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, then landed a featured role in the Broadway revival of The King and I. But there was something missing.

“I was burned out--and I wanted to express myself more than singing opera allowed me to,” she says about the career shift. “It was just time to make a change into more contemporary music.”

MALEA made enough money doing commercial work that she was able to head to L.A. to reinvent herself as a singer-songwriter, teaching herself to play guitar and making a name on the local club circuit, performing at the Viper Room, The Roxy, The Mint and the Knitting Factory. She recorded her debut album TRUE BELIEVER with producer Scott Hackwith (Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, The Ramones), which she released independently in 2007. The first single, “Deeper,” hit 16 on influential radio tip sheet Friday Morning Quarterback’s AC40 chart, while the follow-up (and first video) “Sweet Light” was Most Added, climbing to 3, with both in rotation on Sirius XM Satellite and Triple A stations across the country. She performed before 7,000 fans at the Summerfest Music Festival in Milwaukee, sharing the bill with B.B. King, Bon Jovi and John Mayer, then opened for Todd Rundgren at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. She also just signed an endorsement deal for her own signature model acoustic and electric guitars with Korea-based Peerless Guitars.

Her intimate vocals, with a slight hint of country twang, recall some of MALEA’s own favorites, from roots Americana performers Linda Ronstadt, Crystal Gayle, Emmylou Harris, Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow and Eva Cassidy to more R&B-flavored singers like Roberta Flack, Laura Nyro and Elton John.

The songs on CLOSE AS AIR, such as the title track--which pays tribute to one of her close friends and personal musical mentors--represent a longing for closeness and the kind of extended family MALEA feels she missed out on as a child, a community that has formed on the Internet, where her music has been discovered by 30,000 fans on MySpace alone.

“It’s about having faith in something you can’t necessarily see or touch,” she says, “a higher calling, a higher being… Which is ironic because the first song I started to write when I came out to L.A. was ‘Close As Air.’ I never realized who it was about until I finished.”

You can hear that aching loneliness and isolation on “Stars,” where she sings: “There’s a wild and lonely child in the airport/Standing there with tears in her eyes,” admitting, “That was me at five, waiting to be picked up my grandparents.”

The current single “Moving On” tells of returning home a different person than the one that left (“If you love me/Then you love me/And if not/OK…I’m moving on”), inspired by the trip to attend her grandfather’s funeral.

Two other stylistic directions are represented by the country-flavored “Birthday” and the orchestral soul of “Tonight,” which celebrate finally finding her one true love after the bittersweet romantic misfires of “Memories,” about her time as a struggling performer in New York City (“You were mine/For a time/And I knew you/For awhile”), and “No More,” where she gets rid of a troublesome ex (“Crazy doesn’t work with me no more”). “Falling” and “Time Will Show” are about being able to count on your friends for support in times of crisis, while her cover of the standard “Water Is Wide,” an Appalachian mountain song that could have come straight off the T Bone Burnett-produced O Brother Where Art Thou?, demonstrates her love for what she calls “real country music”: “Give me a boat/That can carry two/And both shall row/My love and I.”

CLOSE AS AIR comes straight from the heart that MALEA McGUINNESS wears on her sleeve for all to see, hear and, hopefully, embrace.

“I love my music and have faith in it,” she says. “I just feel it will reach who it’s supposed to reach. But I’m certainly going to perform these songs live and give them every chance of being heard.”

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Tallulah

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Feb 9 2010 11:57 PM

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Feb 9 2010 7:36 PM

Hey!

Thanks for the request. Great to be friends here on myspace!


New track 'Set You Free' can be downloaded exclusively from Beatport. Check out blog for more info!


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Feb 9 2010 5:03 PM

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Feb 9 2010 1:09 PM

luv the music! best wishes for the future....I hope you enjoy my music I would luv to get your output.
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Feb 9 2010 6:37 AM

Thanks for being our friend!

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I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away.
I wrote your name in the sand,
but the waves washed it away.
I wrote your name in my heart,
and forever it will stay.
Irina

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Feb 8 2010 8:49 AM

I wish you a successful week. Let your spirits be beautiful, let all that you conceived, accomplished.
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Feb 8 2010 1:57 AM

With a change of color and pose
one can understand the language of flowers..
She shows or hides the glow of her soul..
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Feb 7 2010 8:25 PM

aww thankyou!!
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and the same to you =]
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Feb 7 2010 11:38 AM

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Feb 6 2010 11:56 PM

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in your spiritual journey;
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Geoffrey Hammond

Geoffrey Hammond



Feb 6 2010 10:33 AM


Thank you for being friends.

Cheers, Geoffrey.
Mastering Engineer ~ Mike Hall

Mastering Engineer ~ Mike Hall



Feb 6 2010 3:08 AM

Many Thanks! It would be great to work with you sometime.
Please keep me updated on your upcoming projects
and the best to you~
Tallulah

Tallulah



Feb 6 2010 12:16 AM

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Catherine



Feb 5 2010 11:31 PM

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Feb 5 2010 7:14 PM

Thanks for the friend request!! Beautiful tunes...now, if I could only figure out how to get mine to sound half that good!!

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Feb 4 2010 11:44 PM

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