Marcella Detroit

Marcella Detroit was born and bred in Detroit, Michigan and she started her musical career with greats such as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, David Bowie and Bob Seger.........

Marcella went on to join Eric Clapton’s band and stayed with him for four years. She co-wrote "Lay down Sally" with Eric, which to date has over two million plays; it also ended up winning a BMI award. Marcella was introduced to Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and through him met Siobhan Fahey.
Siobhan was in the process of leaving her band, Bananarama, at the time. She was looking to start a band that would end up being called, "Shakespear's Sister", and Marcy asked to become a part of it. They ended up recording two albums together, the first one being "Sacred Heart" and the second one, "Hormonally Yours"; the latter album won them many awards in the UK, and their single from that album (on which Marcy was mainly vocally featured) called "Stay", was number one for eight weeks in the UK and the top five in the Billboard charts in America in 1992. The single “Stay” holds the record for the longest run at no. 1 for a female performer. Marcy went on to do a solo album in 1994 on London records entitled, "Jewel" which did well in the UK, Europe and Australia. After that, she released an album in 1996 on "Feeler" which was very successful in Japan and Australia with success in Europe. In 2001, she released another album on her own label called, "Dancing Madly sideways" which was available only on her website. This record was quite adventurous and received some very positive recognition from US Billboard magazine. Marcy signed to a British publishing company called A7 in 2004, A7 has sent her traveling all over the globe, writing pop hits for various major artists worldwide. Marcy is currently enjoying the success of her co-writing with a platinum selling song in Brazil, and is also the sole writer of "I Believe", artist in Germany called Joanna Zimmer. The song reached number 2 in the German National Charts in May of 2005, garnering a gold record for the artist and Marcy. Marcella has recently written with ex Spice girl Emma Bunton, Hayley Westenra, Alesha Dixon (ex- Misteeq) and fame academy winner Alex Parkes. Somehow Marcy has also found the time to collaborate with legendary blues guitarist Carlos Guitarlos as well as recording her own solo blues project.



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