Horse McDonald


Horse McDonald is a Scottish singer-songwriter.

Career

McDonald was born on 22 November 1958 in Newport on Tay, Fife, Scotland and grew up in Anstruther, also in Fife.
In the 1980s, she toured with Tina Turner and BB King.
She has been performing with her band since 1990 and has nine studio albums to date.
McDonald toured in March 2011, playing an acoustic set.
McDonald appeared on the 2012 charity single 'It Does Get Better' created by The L Project. The single benefitted LGBT charities and was written in response to the suicide of LGBT teenagers.
She performed a one-off show at the Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom on 2 March 2013 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her album God's Home Movie and the release of her 9th studio album, HOME.
In January 2013 she married her long-term partner, Alanna, in Lanark, where she lived as a teenager.
In 2017, she was inducted into the Saltire Society Outstanding Women of Scotland.
Her portrait was painted by Roxana Halls in 2019. It was acquired by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, where it now hangs.

Discography

Singles

Solo: