Candice Night (born May 8, 1971) is an American
vocalist/lyricist and the wife of
hard
rock guitarist
Ritchie
Blackmore. She is now the lead singer, multi-instrumentalist,
and lyricist for the renaissance-influenced project,
Blackmore's Night since 1997.
Biography
She was
born as Candice Lauren Isralow in Hauppauge
, Long
Island
, New
York
. At 12 years of age Candice began modeling.
She did everything from commercials to print ads, promotions to
trade shows until her 20's.
She met
Ritchie Blackmore on a
football field in 1989, and
sang backing vocals for
Deep Purple in
1993; she also did backing vocals on
Stranger in Us All, the CD by
Blackmore's band
Rainbow, as well as
helping to write four other songs on the aforementioned album. She
was later asked to write lyrics for most songs for the first
Blackmore's Night album,
Shadow of the
Moon.
Since then, she has been awarded several gold albums and other
awards for the music of Blackmore's Night as well as Rainbow, and
has charted internationally with her music. Their latest release,
Secret Voyage, entered at #1 on the New Age Billboard
Charts and stayed there for four weeks, and then held on in the top
10 for an additional 14 weeks. She continues to widen her musical
horizons, performing both on CDs and live in concert, not only
writing lyrics and singing, but playing medieval instruments:
shawm,
cornamuse,
rauschpfeife,
pennywhistle, and
chanters.
Candice Night also sang on
Helloween's
"
Light the Universe" song from
their
Keeper
of the Seven Keys - The Legacy album, And She also
appeared In
Helloween's music Video for
that track. She played the part of Oria in the rock opera
Story
of Aina, with Sass Jordan, Sascha Paeth, and Glenn Hughes. She
also sang three songs on the
Beto Vázquez album
Infinity with Tarja
Turunen from
Nightwish and Sabine
Edelsbacher from
Edenbridge. The
Blackmore's Night song "Old Mill Inn" was heard in Jim Carrey's
December 2008 blockbuster film
Yes Man.
After being engaged for nearly fifteen years, Candice and Blackmore
married on October 5, 2008 at the Castle on the Hudson.
She is due to be featured in the horror movie
Pray For
Light with
Geoff Tate, lead vocalist
of
Queensrÿche, in the near
future.
She also appears on interactive video screens throughout the USA
and Japan in the theme park Magiquest as both Princess Amora and
Princess Candice. These parks now have a cooperation throughout the
USA through Great Wolf Lodges as well as their home base in Myrtle
Beach, SC. She was also the Faerie Queen for
Faerie
Magazine for two years, gracing the cover in Spring 2007, and
making appearances and performing at the Faerie Festivals
throughout the USA.
Candice is also very well known for her charitable contributions
towards animal welfare. Throughout the eleven years of the
existence of Blackmore's Night, the band has donated enough funds
for the WWF to plant 6,000 fruit trees in Borneo for the orangutan
habitat; they have donated to the Save the Bats in Berlin; Save the
Badgers in England; local animal charities throughout the USA
including an annual invitation only charity show in which all
proceeds go directly to Save A Pet, Little Shelter, Best Friends
and North Shore Animal League. They have also donated portions of
proceeds of CD sales to the Red Cross to aid the flood victims in
Eastern Europe; donated to CO2OL to plant trees in Panama to undo
the pollution which their concerts may generate; donated to UNICEF.
Other charities with whom they have cooperated include PETA and
SPCA.
Blackmore's Night discography
Albums:
Live Albums:
Compilation Albums:
Live DVDs:
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