My partner Tim and I were big fans of her music and we both did a lot of work for her, for free. Three of her albums went gold and platinum in the US and multi-platinum in Canada, and she bought a house in her native Ontario, then others in Toronto, Tuscany and Ireland. Within a short space of time she became extremely wealthy. She was her own manager arranged her own tours and made all the decisions both in business and music.
She believed in total control, setting up her own record label and offices. When her music career took off in the late Eighties, I enjoyed her success as if it were my own and I was filled with admiration for her single-mindedness. We would have long discussions about life and love and went on holidays together. There was an instant rapport between us and I was happy to put her up in my house and introduce her to my friends and family. I was working as a teacher in London and Loreena, whom I had met during a trip home to Canada, would often come and stay. I befriended her long before she attained her celebrity status, when the record companies shunned her, even before she had a harp the instrument which made her a star. In her native Canada she is an icon and role model, showered with accolades and treated like a national treasure.įor 20 years, she was also one of my closest friends. Loreena McKennitt, folk singer, songwriter and harpist, is a major celebrity in Europe and America, and her latest concert in London was a sell-out.
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Free speech was the loserįor 20 years, Niema Ash was the best friend of international singing star Loreena McKennitt, but then fame and fortune led them to a bitter court confrontation
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On my own, without lawyers, in secret, I faced the full pomp of the English legal system. I was about to find out just how naive that hope was. I was upset that it had come to this, but felt sure the courts would protect me, however much money Loreena had. She was burning with self-righteous rage and determined to stop me, whatever it took. Not even if the author was a close friend of two decades’ standing.
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