Marry Waterson

Marry Waterson
Waterson in 2016
Background information
Birth name	Maria Knight
Born	Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Genres	Folk
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter
Instrument	Vocalist
Labels	Topic Records

Maria Gilhooley (née Knight), who records under the name Marry Waterson, is a singer, songwriter and visual artist. A member of the Waterson-Knight-Carthy family musical dynasty, Waterson is described as having "thrived on communal music making while developing highly original and distinctly English performance styles of [her] own."^[1]