Organizers say they'll induct the late performer on May 6 during a tribute at the. “Rita was an unlikely suspect for the radio world, and yet her power got her through, broke down the doors, all the no’s and got her on radio, and once the public heard her and saw her, saw her for what she really was it was all over, she won. Beloved East Coast singer-songwriter Rita MacNeil is getting her place in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. “She was the first one to break out of the East Coast with hit radio material, back in the days when radio really did count,” Diamond said. Rita MacNeil CM ONS was a Canadian singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotias Cape Breton Island. Rita MacNeil, a singer-songwriter from Cape Breton whose powerful voice explored genres from country, to folk, to gospel, died Tuesday night following complications from surgery. “She wouldn’t live anywhere else, and we would like to think no one else would either, so it’s wonderful to have somebody who felt that way, and believed it and lived it.”ĭiamond says MacNeil carved her own, individual path in the music industry - an effort that’s paved the way for a number of future musicians. She was a Canadian country folk singer, noted for singing songs that spoke of her love for her home. She was a great Maritimer and she cared passionately for this part of the world,” said Brookes Diamond, MacNeil’s former manager. Canadas music community is mourning the death of Rita MacNeil after the award-winning country and folk singer died April 16, following complications from. Singer, nicknamed Cape Bretons First Lady of Song. “People loved her, really, they just loved her,” said Kim Dunn, a keyboard player in MacNeil’s band for years, “I think that spoke greatly to how real she was, how down to Earth she was, how humble she was and at the same time she was so giving and generous with her time”.
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