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'''Loreena McKennitt''' is a [[Canadian Music|Canadian singer and musician]]. Her songs have a distinct Celtic and Middle Eastern tone (she's of Scottish descent), but are sometimes described as [[New Age]]. Her songs are often ballads, and often notable for a striking or romantic word portrait of a setting, and she's characterized by her high, echoing soprano voice. She found her calling to music after trying to be a veterinarian, and has since then sold more than 13 million copies of her albums. She's often compared to [[Enya]] as they both have Celt roots and use Gaelic in their music, but Loreena's music is more inspired by works of literature (most often Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake and William Butler Yeats) and is considered to be more grounded. Many of her songs have roots in English or Celtic folk songs, but more recently her music has been inspired by Arabian/Turkish lore.
 
She currently{{when}} has 10ten albums, including two winter-themed albums:
 
* ''Elemental'' (1985)
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* ''A Midwinter Night's Dream'' (2008)
* ''The Wind That Shakes the Barley'' (2010)
 
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She was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2023.
 
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: ''The Highwayman.''
* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: ''The King'' ..."We have powder and shot to conquer the lot, we have cannon and ball, to conquer them all." Yes this is a Christmas song.
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* [[Teenage Death Songs]]: Played with in "Standing Stones". The male lover dies young, but his lady lives on for years, lonely and tragic, before finally dying and joining him.
* [[War Is Hell]]: ''Beneath a Phyrgian Sky'' is about her walking along a Mediterranean shore, thinking about the wars that had happened there and musing about [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]] it was.
**The "Phyrgian Sky"(Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Eastern Mediterranean) would by the way have covered some of the most fought-over places in human history. [[So, Yeah]].
***If you stretch that area into sort of a combative arc of fire to match the volcanic one in the Pacific, the "Phyrgian Sky" is not so far from, Troy and [[Up to Eleven|the Valley of Armageddon]]. Within that space come many another charming thought which I am sure comes to mind.
* [[Yandere]]: Apparent in her song "Bonny Swans". See the page for more detail.
 
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