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Article: Emily Maguire owes it all to goats' cheese
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- June 13, 2008
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HER buzzed-about album may be entitled Keep Walking, but London-
born singer Emily Maguire could just as easily have called the new
record The Accidental Songwriter.
Indeed, while she's thrilled that her career is taking off in the
UK and in her adopted Australia, the singer knows she probably would
never have reached this stage had her life not been derailed by a
violent twist of fate.
Child prodigy Maguire learned to read music at the same time as
she learned to read, and by the age of seven she was an accomplished
pianist, cellist and flautist. When she was 16, however, her world
was radically changed by a serious car accident.
"I had a car crash which triggered a chronic nervous ...