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Tara Jane McDonald
Publicity shot
Background information
Also known as	Tara McDonald
Origin	Dartford, Kent (United Kingdom)
Genres	Singer/songwriter, House
Labels	ULM, Mercury Group, Universal Music France
Website	taramcdonald.tv

Tara McDonald is an English 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 and co-writing with Axwell on the chart hits ‘My My My’ 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 co writing ‘Get Down’ and with David Guetta co writing ‘Delirious’ and ‘You Are Not Alone’. ‘Delirious’ – which featured on the ‘Pop Life’ 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 Rocks bar and her legendary "Sunset Sessions" at Savannah beach bar, seeing Tara perform acoustic versions of her best known songs.

Recently,^[1] Tara signed a recording deal with Hed Kandi Records and is currently writing with David Guetta, Todd Terry, Joey Negro, Nervo, Laidback Luke, Afrojack, Mowgli, TV Rock, Sidney Samson, Funkerman and David Vendetta.

Biography [link]

At the age of 9, Tara performed in Les Miserables as Eponine at The Palace Theatre in the West End of London. At 12, she won an international singing competition "The Danny Kaye Award" presented by Audrey Hepburn 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" with Jude Law for the Edinburgh festival in Scotland. At 14, Tara won the juvenile lead part in a new musical called St. Bernadette at the Dominion Theatre in London, this part was also played by Martine McCutcheon. 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 in Croydon other musical artists that went to this school are Jessie J, Adele, Kate Nash, Imogen Heap & Amy Winehouse.

Tara also worked as a backing dancer for Karen Ramirez 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 the MTV 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. In 2005 Tara co wrote and sang "feel the Vibe til the morning comes" with Axwell which was a top 20 hit in the UK and one of the biggest dance tracks of the year, 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 released in 2008, this resulted in the hit 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 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, Eric Clapton, Roger Walters. Tara backing sang on Bryan's next studio album a work of Dylan covers and toured with him for a year.

Tara also worked with the legendary "Leo Green experience" (a collection of some of finest UK musicians) as a guest vocalist at some of the most prestigious jazz venues in the UK like Ronnie Scott's and supported the Roy Ayers.

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'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 influence. Bryan Ferry, David Vendetta and David Guetta all wrote supporting articles about their experiences working with Tara McDonald.

2010 Tara collaborated on many new records "I'm Your Goddess" with David Vendetta, a dance track with a middle Eastern feel featuring Alim Gasinov from Azerbaijan on DJ Centre Records. "Elevated" with the Australian dance duo TV Rock, "Everything" Funkerman, Beats for You" with Mischa Daniels on Amarda Music, "Set me on Fire" with Sidney Samson on Spinnin Records and the big smash "Give Into The Night/Tomorrow" with Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike Dada Life which was the anthem for the dance music festival Tomorrowland in Belgium and went to the top of the club charts and peaked as a top 20 track commercially. Tara wrote the vocal melody and lyric and also recorded & produced the vocals for the track.

2011 Tara released "Dynamite" with Sidney Samson on Spinnin Records and the remix by Nicky Romero became of the most successful club tracks of that year with over 2 million views on youtube. In this year Tara worked again with David Guetta on a new track called "Pandemonium" with Afrojack which was released on FMIF Ibiza mix compilation on EMI Records. Tara's next record "Generation 24/7" was released though Hed Kandi records on 26/12/11.

Tara performed at the "Girls First" concert by children's charity Plan in Amsterdam with the biggest pop stars from The Netherlands and she was the only non Dutch artist to perform on the night. The concert was to raise awareness for equal rights for girls in developing countries and was televised through Avro. The programme was a success as the United Nations declared the 11th October to be an international day to put "Girls First".

2012 Tara starts her own weekly radio show every Monday 1am - 2am called "Shut Up & Dance" on FG Radio (France & Belgium). She is the only non DJ to have her radio show on France's coolest dance music station alongside, David Guetta, Armin van Buurin & Laidback Luke. 2012 Tara is the assistant vocal coach on "The Voice" in Belgium working alongside the French pop star Quentin Mosimann.

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.^[2][3][4]

In 2011 Tara did well her part in a festival called 24hrs of Burning House (held in Smederevo Fortress, Serbia), alongside Junior Jack, Sandy Rivera, Chocolate Puma, Steve Edwards 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). ♥^[5]

Tara is currently working on her new solo record "Give Me More" to be released in Feb 2012 and has signed her album to Mercury records part of the Universal music group.

McDonald has been described as a "tigress on stage"^[6] and "the chic sexbomb of electro music."^[7]

In 2012 Tara signed a 2 album deal with Mercury/Universal and the first single "Give Me More" is all ready on radio. The first album will be released in September 2012.

Discography [link]

Singles [link]

• Give Me More - Tara McDonald - Universal Music France - 2012
• Pandemonium - David Guetta & Afrojack featuring Tara McDonald - EMI Records - 2011
• Generation 24/7 - Tara McDonald - [Hed Kandi] Records - 2011
• All Alone - Quentin Mosimann & Tara McDonald - Universal Records - 2011
• Dynamite - Sidney Samson vs Tara McDonald - Spinnin Records - 2011 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Set Me On Fire - Sidney Samson vs Tara McDonald - Spinnin Records - 2011 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Tomorrow (Give Into The Night) - Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Dada Life & Tara McDonald - Smash The House - 2010
• Can't Stop Singing - Mowgli & Tara McDonald - Data Records - 2010 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Beats For You - Mischa Daniels & Tara McDonald - Armada Music - 2010 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Everything - Funkerman & Tara McDonald - Flamingo Records - 2010 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• I'm Your Goddess - David Vendetta vs Tara McDonald featuring Alim Gasimov - Dj Centre - 2010 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Elevated - TV Rock & Tara McDonald - Neon Records - 2010 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• La La Land - Joey Negro & Tara McDonald - Blanco Negro Records - 2010 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Shake It - Lee Cabrera vs Thomas Gold & Tara McDonald - CR2 Records - 2009
• Revolution - The Vibers & Tara McDonald - Roton - 2009 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Love Crazy - Warren Clarke & Tara McDonald - Hed Kandi - 2008 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Delirious (from the album Pop Life)- David Guetta feat. Tara McDonald - EMI - 2008 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• You're Not Alone (from the album Pop Life)- David Guetta feat. Tara McDonald - EMI - 2008 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Play On - Todd Terry Allstars feat. Tara McDonald - Strictly Rhythm Records - 2007 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Get Down - Todd Terry Allstars feat. Tara McDonald - Strictly Rhythm Records - 2007 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• Take Me I'm Yours & Let Me In (From the album Music Takes Me) - Stonebridge - Stoneboy Records - 2007 (Co written by Tara McDonald)
• My My My (Funktuary) - Armand Van Helden feat. Tara McDonald - Southern Fried Records - 2006
• Feel The Vibe (Till The Morning Comes)' Axwell feat. Tara McDonald - Data Records/Ministry Of Sound - 2005 (Co written by Tara McDonald)

Charts [link]

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 (from David 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)

Give Me More

• top 107 French Singles Charts (2012) ^[8]

External links [link]

• Official Website

References [link]

1. ^ "Tara McDonald signing her record deal with Hed Kandi webisode". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUHKO18wEU. Retrieved 03-12-2011. 
2. ^ "Only For DJ's - Meilleure voix féminine, Tara McDonald". https://www.onlyfordj.fr/magazine/news/2616-votre-palmares-dancefloor-2010-les-resultats. Retrieved 03-12-2011. 
3. ^ "Tara McDonald wins ‘Only For DJs’ ‘Best Voice Award’". https://chatter-fest.com/tara-mcdonald-wins-only-for-djs-best-voice-award/. Retrieved 03-12-2011. 
4. ^ "Tara McDonald wins 'Only For DJs' 'Best Voice Award' | Chatter-festChatter-fest". https://digg.com/news/entertainment/tara_mcdonald_wins_only_for_djs_best_voice_award_chatter_festchatter_fest. Retrieved 03-12-2011. 
5. ^ "Tara gets a tattoo". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grQ8ZNLftto. Retrieved 03-12-2011. 
6. ^ "Tara McDonald: The voice of an angel behind countless clubland hits steps up to the DMC plate...". https://www.dmcworld.net/charts/entry/news/tara-mcdonald.html#. Retrieved 03-12-2011. 
7. ^ "Tara McDonald is cover model for French Playboy March 2010 issue". https://www.houseplanet.dj/index.php/March-2010/Tara-McDonald-is-cover-model-for-French-Playboy-March-2010-issue.html. Retrieved 03-12-2011. 
8. ^ https://www.chartsinfrance.net/Tara-McDonald/Give-Me-More-s23590.html

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