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The Voyage (song)
"The Voyage" is a very famous modern Irish classic song by the Irish musician, singer-songwriter Johnny Duhan. Unsure of his own vocal capabilities, he offered it to the Irish singer Christy Moore who recorded a version in 1989 that became the definitive and most well-known version of the song. Johnny Duhan went on to record his own version for his similarly titled album '' The Voyage'' that was released much later in 2005. The song has been interpreted by a great number of artists and translated into other languages The idea to write on the family theme grew organically out of Johnny Duhan's earlier excavations of family history. Measuring the early struggles of his own marriage against his parents' rocky relationship, he first wrote a song called "Trying to Get the Balance Right", and this led on to reflections on the whole institution of marriage and child rearing. "The Voyage" tackles the struggle of marriage and expresses its familial difficulties. Despite his own personal diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Duhan
Johnny Duhan (born 30 March 1950) started his career as the 15-year-old frontman of the Ireland, Irish Beat music, beat group Granny's Intentions. After success in Limerick and Dublin, the band moved to London and was signed to the Deram Records record label. The band released several singles and one album, ''Honest Injun.'' However, the band disbanded before Duhan was twenty-one, and Duhan left the popular music industry to start writing folk songs, poetry, and prose. Just Another Town, To the Light, Flame (Johnny Duhan album), Flame, and The Voyage (song), The Voyage are some of the releases that represent his work. These align with the first four sections of his poetic autobiography, ''To The Light''. His songs have been performed by Christy Moore, The Dubliners, Mary Black, and many other Irish and international singers. Christy Moore stated that "The Voyage (song), The Voyage" (Duhan's most popular song according to iTunes) has been performed at over a million weddings wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christy Moore
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. In addition to his significant success as an individual, he is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, ''Paddy'' ''on the Road'' was recorded with Dominic Behan in 1969. In 2007, he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards. Early life Moore was born in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland and attended Newbridge College. His mother Nancy Moore was a Fine Gael election candidate. He was originally a bank employee who wanted to express himself using traditional music. During a bank strike in 1966, which lasted twelve weeks, he went to England, as many striking officials did, but didn't return when the strike was settled. "I had a wild and wonderful time in England, with no bank manager looking over my shoulder," he said. Doing general labouring work, he frequented the folk clubs and the Irish music p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voyage (album)
''The Voyage'' is a 2005 album by Irish folk musician, Johnny Duhan containing his internationally famous modern Irish folk classic " The Voyage". The idea to write on the family theme grew organically out of Johnny's earlier excavations of family history in some of the songs on his '' Just Another Town'' album. Measuring the early struggles of his own marriage against his parents’ rocky relationship, he wrote a song called "Trying to Get the Balance Right", and this led on to reflections on the whole institution of marriage and child rearing. Over a six or seven-year period his thoughts on the subject crystallized into a series of songs that eventually became ''The Voyage'' album. Title track "The Voyage" The title song " The Voyage" was one of the last songs of the collection to come to him. After exposing the raw nerves of the marriage struggle in many of the other lyrics – and maybe because he was open enough to give full expression to these familial difficulties - he f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Thunder
Celtic Thunder is an Irish singing group and stage show known for its eclectic, theatrical style show. The group is backed by the Celtic Thunder Band on their concert tours, and their live shows are known for the use of dramatic set pieces (often invoking symbols of ancient Celtic mythology), visual effects, and highly choreographed staging. Since the original group's formation in 2007, Celtic Thunder has released twelve albums as well as ten live performances on DVD, three of which were split into two releases. History Celtic Thunder was conceived in the mind of producer Sharon Browne (Celtic Collections) who started the group in 2007. Celtic Thunder debuted in August 2007 at The Helix in Dublin, Ireland. They are accompanied by the Celtic Concert Orchestra under the direction of Phil Coulter, the musical director of the group. In December 2008, 2009 and 2011, ''Billboard'' magazine named Celtic Thunder Top World Album Artist. Their first three albums also placed in the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Taggart
Donna Taggart is a Celtic singer and musician. Born in Omagh in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, she first came to prominence in 2011, when her acclaimed debut album ''Celtic Lady Vol. 1'' was picked up by highly respected BBC Radio Ulster presenter Gerry Anderson. She shot to fame in 2016, with over 27 million Facebook views of her video rendition of "Jealous of the Angels", which was written by Jenn Bostic Jenn Bostic (born January 3, 1986 as Jennifer Christiana Bostic) is an American country music and Christian music singer-songwriter, based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2012, her song " Jealous of the Angels" was released. Her album, ''Jealous'' ... in 2010. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Taggart, Donna Date of birth missing (living people) Living people Women singers from Northern Ireland People from Omagh Musicians from County Tyrone 1985 births British country singers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Matthews (singer)
Lee Mulhern (born 12 June 1988), now known as Lee Matthews, is an Irish singer-songwriter. Starting age 8, Lee Mulhern (his birth name) had performed as a child star prodigy covering pop and country songs on many Irish and UK radio and television shows. At age 17, he embarked on a series of music projects like Streetwize, Streetside and Access All Areas, in a bid to be launched as an "international boy band" made up of singers from various nationalities. After the boy band projects fell through, he relaunched a solo music career adopting the name Lee.M, and for a short time formed NXT-GEN, an electropop duo collaboration with Pete Doherty. In 2013, as Lee Matthews, he became part of the country music scene in Ireland in the Country and Irish genre releasing two albums, ''A Little Bitty Country'' in 2014 and ''It's a Great Day to Be Alive'' in 2015 and a string of singles releases. Beginnings as a child star Lee Mulhern was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland. He now lives in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Songs
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