Margaret Urlich, the New Zealand-born singer well-known for singing No.1 hit The Horses with Daryl Braithwaite, has died aged 57.
She had been identified with most cancers two and a half years in the past, and died at dwelling in NSW at the moment, surrounded by household.
The Horses, which hit No.1 within the Australian charts and stayed within the prime 10 for 12 weeks in 1991, was the most important Australian hit she was concerned in however Urlich was a star in her personal proper.
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She took out the Finest Breakthrough Artist ARIA award in 1991 for her debut album Security in Numbers.
Stuff reported she had solo hits with Escaping, Quantity One, and Burnt Sienna, earlier than becoming a member of feminine vocal supergroup When the Cat’s Away.
The group went to No.1 throughout the ditch with Melting Pot and had been inducted into the New Zealand Music Corridor of Fame in December final 12 months.
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“Margaret is a much-loved multi award-winning member of the Australian and New Zealand music business who captured hearts around the globe as a gifted singer/songwriter with a novel voice and sense of favor,” a press release launched by her administration mentioned.
“We thanks for respecting the privateness of her household and family members at this unhappy time.”
9 leisure editor Richard Wilkins described Urlich as a “lovely and proficient artist who blazed a path”.
Urlich in 2016 expressed some remorse she selected to not seem within the music video for The Horses, as a result of she was recording an album in London on the time.
“I may have come again to do the video however I used to be doing my very own factor by that stage,” she informed Information Corp.
“Lots of people know it is my singing, however they do not put two and two collectively that it is not me within the video.
“Looking back it was most likely somewhat bit foolish as a result of the track was so enormous.
“However on the time I used to be younger and a bit silly, I did what I believed was proper. However it was completely no disrespect to Daryl.”
