Maddy Prior, born Madeleine E. Prior, is a musician and singer probably best known as lead singer of Steeleye Span. She also has a solo career started in 1978 with the album entitled 'Woman in the Wings'. Several are the groups and the collaborations under her own name, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, Maddy Prior and June Tabor, Maddy Prior, John Kirkpatrick and Sydney Carter, Maddy Prior and Martin Carthy, and
Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band.