Real name Michelle Kinneavy, was born to

irish parents in 1974 in the UK.

One of her grand parents (both of whom

where irish american), "Patrick Connolly" was

a song writer and had a lot of his work

published in the USA.

She says that this is probably where she got

her singing genes from.

She grew up listening to irish and american

music, especially at family gatherings and on

special occassions. 

Mia became so interested in country music

that she got a job with "Country Hits

Magazine" in the UK, where she met

numerous artists from the USA and after

talking to some decided to go to nashville to

record 'I Wanna Be The Woman'.

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The song with lyrics written by Helen Rae

Cooper and music by Pam Reed and her

husband Keith Reed was recorded at the

'Station West Studio' with 'Chris Crawford'

as producer.

Since recording 'I Wanna Be The Woman'

Mia has gone on to collaborate with 'Liberty

X's' producer Pete Stone, Boyzones

producer Ray Hedges and with EMI Records

''Skypath producers'