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| | ++ Rita MacNeil Official Site: Bio ++ |
 | | Often chaotic, her youth included the physical and psychological trauma of surgery for a cleft palate, a first love affair that left her with a child and a broken heart, a marriage breakdown and numerous frustrating attempts to kick-start a musical career. |
| | Rita's shyness, even during childhood singing lessons when "the teacher did most of the singing," thwarted her first attempts to express herself musically, so she only sang to her mother in the kitchen. |
| | The turning point, however, was Expo '86 in Vancouver, where despite her normal misgivings about the gig, "I was on cloud nine when I discovered the first show was sold out, 350 people were in the audience and…the audience stayed…People wanted to listen to the music," she said. |
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