MARY BLACK was born into a musical family. Her father was a fiddler, her mother a singer, her brothers had their own musical group called The Black Brothers, and her younger sister Frances would go on to achieve great success as a singer in the 1990s. From this musical background, Mary began singing traditional Irish songs at the age of eight. As she grew older, she began to perform with her siblings (Shay, Michael and Martin Black) in small clubs around Dublin, finally achieving great success in her own right as a recording artist. She has released several award-winning albums, and a documentary tracing her progress, Still Believing, was released in 2002. Mary continues to travel the world, attracting huge audiences in Europe, the US and Australia/New Zealand. She now lives in Dublin with her husband Joe.
