Maddy was natural in 14th August 1947 in Blackpool. When around her teens she moved to St Albans. Around St. Albans she befriended a immature Donovan Leitch and Mac MacLeod. She late formed the duo using MacLeod known as Macintosh & Maddy. She met higher using Tim Hart at a folk festival around Keele. Together it recorded 2 albums prior to becoming innovation members of Steeleye Span in 1970. It were a backbone of a class action until the early 1980s when ill-health forced Tim into semi-retirement. Maddy married bassist Rick Kemp, and their girl, Rose Kemp, launched her have recording career within 2003. Although better called a right soprano in Steeleye Span, Maddy has recorded session work, albums of her have songs & eclectic styles from either mediaeval, across folk-rock, prog-rock and traditional songs. She left Steeleye Span inside 1997 but returned in 1999.

Inside 2001 Maddy was awarded the MBE for services to folk music.

In recent albums Troy Donockley has been a co-producer.

Maddy's father, Allan Prior, was co-creator of the law drama Z-Cars.

Discography
with Steeleye Span
Maddy Prior get on all the Steeleye Span albums from Hark! A Village Hold off (1970) to Tempted & Tried (1989). She so returned for The Journeying (1999) & subsequent albums.

Solo albums

Woman in the Wings (1978) Changing Winds (1978) Happy Families (1981) Hooked on Winning (1982) Memento (best of) (1995) Ravenchild (1999) Ballads and Candles (2000) Arthur the King (2001) Bib and Tuck (2002) Lionheart (2003)

Compilation

Collections 1995 - 2005 (2005)

Tim Hart and Maddy Prior

Folk Songs of Olde England vol 1 (1968) Folk ballad of Olde England vol Ii (1968)

Maddy Prior and Tim Hart
Summer Solstice (1971)

Maddy Prior and June Tabor
Silly Sisters (1976) No More To The Dance (1988)

Maddy Prior, John Kirkpatrick and Sydney Carter
Lovely in the Dance (1981)

Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band

Sing Lustily With Good Courage (1986) A Tapestry of Carols (1987) Carols and Capers (1991) Year (1993) Hang Up Sorrow and Care (1995) Carols at Christmas (1996) Flesh and Blood (1997) Gold Frankincense and Myrrh (2001)

As a session singer
She appeared in these albums: Shirley Collins: No Roses (1971) Mike Oldfield: Incantations (1978) Frankie Armstrong: ''Till The Grass O'Ergrow The Corn (1996) Tim Hart & Friends: The Drunken Sailor (1983) Tim Hart & Friends: Favourite Nursery Rhymes'' (1983)