Rita MacNeil has achieved international success as a songwriter, vocalist, recording artist, performer and television personality. She released her first album in 1975, and more than a dozen others have followed, many of which have gone double or triple platinum. She is a multiple winner of the Canadian Country Music Awards, the East Coast Music Awards and the Juno Awards. In 1996 she received a Gemini Award for her television show, “Rita and Friends.” In 1992 Rita was inducted into the Order of Canada. Her bestselling autobiography, On A Personal Note, was published in 1998. She has a home in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and a beach house in Big Pond, Nova Scotia, where Rita’s Tea Room is a major tourist attraction.
