McDonald was born on 22 November 1958 in Newport on Tay, Fife, Scotland.
In the 1980s, she toured with Tina Turner and BB King.[2] To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut album The Same Sky, Horse and her band played the entire album on a tour of the United Kingdom in October and November 2010.
In 2011, McDonald performed a duet with Heather Peace, on a song they wrote together, Beechwood avenue.[citation needed]
McDonald toured in March 2011, playing an acoustic set with the full band. These concerts featured "exclusive previews of several new songs from the upcoming ninth album, as well as Horse standards and rare B sides".[3]
She was also slated to appear in the soundtrack of the [needs update] UK independent film, About Her.[4]
McDonald appeared on the 2012 charity single 'It Does Get Better' created by The L Project. The single benefitted LGBT charities and was written in response to the suicide of LGBT teenagers.[5][6]
She performed a one-off show at the Barrowland, Glasgow 2 March 2013 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of God's Home Movie and the release of her ninth studio album HOME.[7]
In January 2013 she married her long-term partner, Alanna, in the town of Lanark, Scotland, where she lived as a teenage
