Anne Marie David

There are 2 artists with the name Anne Marie David: I Anne Marie David, American pianist, recording artist, and composer of religious and spiritual themed music.II Anne-Marie David (French singer), born May 23, 1952. I Anne Marie David, American composer/pianist, is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and is the composer of multiple piano scores for religious presses, including Augsburg Fortress Publishers and Abingdon Press. Anne Marie has released six albums to date, including her latest Snow On Snow (2012), as well as Turning Home (2009), Peace Be With You (2004), Here I Am, Lord (2002), The First Morning (2000), and Prayer of St. Francis (1997). Anne Marie David’s voice talents and inspirational piano playing were apparent early, while in her childhood parish in rural Minnesota. The third of ten children who accompanied their mother, the parish music leader, she showed her independence in her soaring adaptations of church piano hymn standards. Anne Marie’s broad ministry of liturgical music includes directing and teaching, as well as serving on the faculty of the Boston College School of Theology’s Summer Institute. -------------------- II Anne-Marie David, born May 23, 1952, is a French singer. She has the rare, although not unique, distinction of having represented two different countries at the Eurovision Song Contest, with considerable success on both occasions. She started her musical career with the Mary Magdelena role in the French version of Jesus Christ Superstar. In 1973, she was selected to represent Luxembourg as the Grand Duchy sought to repeat its previous year's triumph on home soil. The 1973 contest crystallised into a titanic three-way battle between songs that have since established themselves as Eurovision classics: David's "Tu te reconnaîtras", the Spanish entry "Eres tú", and the United Kingdom's "Power to All Our Friends", performed by Cliff Richard. Ultimately a mere six points separated third place from the winner, but it was David that had the edge, and she duly secured a second successive triumph for Luxembourg. After the contest, she started touring the world. She lived in Turkey for a while. She recorded two singles and one longplay in Turkey and got several awards there. She returned to Eurovision in the 1979 contest held in Jerusalem, this time representing her native France with the song "Je suis l'enfant soleil". However, it was her turn to find herself on the wrong end of a tight three-way finish, with the Israeli entry "Hallelujah" edging to a home victory. She started to tour in France in the 1980s. Between 1982-1983, she continued her musical career in Norway. Anne-Marie David then gave up her career, turning her back on music and everything connected with entertainment. She burnt all of her stage clothes and memorabilia and retreated to live an almost hermit like existence in the French countryside. However, she re-emerged around the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 and agreed to take part in the anniversary festival staged in Copenhagen, where she performed the 1972 Eurovision winner "Apres Toi." See: http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Anne-Marie+David Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.