https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Hines

Marcia Elaine Hines, AM (born July 20, 1953), is an American-Australian singer and TV personality.^[1] Hines made her debut, at the age of 16, in the Australian production of the stage musical Hair^[2][3] and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar.^[2][4][5][6]

She achieved her greatest commercial successes as a recording artist during the late 1970s with several hit singles, including cover versions of “Fire and Rain“, “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself“, “You” and “Something’s Missing (In My Life)“; and her Top Ten albums Marcia Shines, Shining and Ladies and Gentlemen.^[5][6] Hines was voted “Queen of Pop” by TV Week‘s readers for three consecutive years from 1976.^[5][6]

Hines stopped recording in the early 1980s^[7] until she returned with Right Here and Now in 1994,^[6][8] the same year she became an Australian citizen.^[2][9] She was the subject of the 2001 biography Diva: the life of Marcia Hines,^[10] which coincided with the release of the compilation album Diva.^[9] From 2003 to 2009 she was a judge on Australian Idol, and her elevated profile led to a renewed interest in her as a performer. Her 2006 album, Discotheque, peaked at number 6 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums chart.^[2][11] Hines was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame on July 18, 2007.^[12][13][14]

Hines is the mother of singer Deni Hines, with whom she performed on the duet single “Stomp!” (2006).^[11] Hines has sold 2.6 million albums and was the first Australian female artist to have a platinum-selling album, as well as the first female to have seven consecutive top 20 album releases.^[15]

Early life[edit]

Hines was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jamaican parents,^[6] Eugene and Esmeralda Hines.^[9] Eugene died when Hines was six months old due to an operation to remove shrapnel from a war wound.^[9][16] Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell was her cousin,^[7][17] as is the performer Grace Jones.^[18] She was raised with her older brother Dwight, by their mother and began singing as a nine-year-old in her church choir. By her teens she was performing with groups in her local area and briefly used the stage-name Shantee Renee.^[9] At 14, Hines won a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music but left after three months.^[2] A month after turning 16, Hines attended the Woodstock Festival.^[18] In 1970, at age 16, Hines moved to Australia after landing a role in the Australian stage production Hair.^[19]. . . .

Personal life[edit]

Hines has a daughter, Deni Hines, who was born in Australia on September 4, 1970. Hines had been performing in Hair since she was 16 years old.^[3][41] Hines has been married four times: French businessman Andre DeCarpentry, keyboard player Jamie McKinley, businessman Ghassan Bayni, and, in April 2005, she married Christopher Morrissey, whom she divorced in 2014.^[35]

Hines grew up with asthma, missing months of schooling as a result of life-threatening attacks,^[42] and was diagnosed with diabetes after collapsing at her home in 1986.^[21] Her elder brother Dwight’s death by suicide, in April 1981, devastated Hines, but her mother Esmeralda (Esme) helped her through their grief.^[18] Esme relocated to Australia to live with Hines and Deni in the 1980s, and she died in May 2003.^[9]