PHOTOS ANNA SAMPSON, ASAFE GHALIB
You might not be familiar with her name, but you will almost certainly know all the words to her 1990 hit song Show Me Heaven.
“I didn’t realise the importance of that song in the queer community until I was asked to sing it at Dublin Pride about 15 years ago,” Maria Mc- Kee tells me when I call her at home in LA. “I hadn’t performed it, because I always thought of it as an anecdote to my career as a singer-songwriter and an indie musician. I knew it was popular and I was proud of the vocal, but I didn’t really think of it as being integral to my body of work, until I realised it had become a bit of an anthem.”