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Gemma Hayes (born 11 August 1977) is an Irish musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments, including the piano and the harmonica. She is also a member of The Cake Sale and Printer Clips.


Early life

Hayes grew up in
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,
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with her parents and seven other siblings. She was surrounded by music from an early age heavily influenced by her siblings and her father who was a keyboardist in a local band. Hayes would later move to
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to attend boarding school. By this time, Hayes was proficient at piano and found that the music used to counter the boredom of living in a small village. She would later move to Dublin City to attend UCD to study sociology,
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and history. Hayes soon dropped out of university to concentrate on her music and to gig at music venues across the city. This was subsidised by working part-time in a laundrette.


Music career


EPs and ''Night on My Side'': 2001–2003

Hayes' music career catapulted upon signing a recording contract with French
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, Source Records in 2001. Under this label she would release her first EP '' 4.35am'' and its follow up ''
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''. By 2002 her debut album ''
Night on my Side ''Night on My Side'' is the debut album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, first released by Source Records on 24 May 2002 in the Republic of Ireland, 27 May 2002 in the United Kingdom, and 10 July 2002 in Japan. The album's release in No ...
'' was released. This release received critical acclaim resulting in her winning Best Female Artist at the Hot Press Awards 2002 and later the album was nominated for Best Album at the 2003
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. Hayes toured Europe and the US extensively upon the album's release performing at high profiled festivals such as Ireland's
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festival and Montreux Jazz Festival 2002 in Switzerland. After touring ''Night on my Side'' Hayes took two years out from the
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; "All I do know is that I didn't want to listen to music at all. I stopped listening to the radio. It was like I'd overdosed on music". She did however find the time to record a cover of Lay Lady Lay with
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. This version appeared in '' Mr. & Mrs. Smith''.


''The Roads Don't Love You'': 2004–2006

In 2004, Hayes moved from Dublin to Los Angeles. By late 2005, Hayes returned with her more upbeat second album, '' The Roads Don't Love You'', and picked up the Best Irish Female Artist award at the 2006 Meteor Ireland Music Awards while completing a small tour of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Shortly after this she parted ways with Source Records as its parent company EMI-Virgin decided to overhaul its line-up of artists and bands. During this time Hayes co-wrote the song "Hazy" with
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. Hayes toured Ireland, the UK and US during the promotion of the album.


''The Hollow of Morning'' and ''Oliver EP'': 2006–2009

On 14 August 2006 Hayes announced she had begun work on her third album in the Black Box Studios in France and produced by her former guitarist,
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. Hayes posted
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of "Out of Our Hands", "Home", and "This Is What You Do" on her MySpace during the
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process. Hayes later confirmed the name of her third album ''
The Hollow of Morning ''The Hollow of Morning'' is the third album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released on 2 May 2008 in the Ireland. " Out of Our Hands" was the first single from the album. The album was released in North America on 20 May 2008 on iTune ...
''. The album was independently released through her own label GH Music and co-financed by an investor. The album was released in Ireland on 2 May 2008 debuting in the Irish Albums Chart at number 12. Following its release in Ireland, Hayes signed a distribution deal with US label Second Motion the album was released in the US on 30 September 2008. During her 2008 'The Hollow of Morning' tour in the UK, Haayes announced she was considering on recording an acoustic album to release by the year end. During promotional work in Ireland during summer 2008, Hayes confirmed she would start recording her fourth album in August. Following a successful tour and album release in Ireland it was confirmed in January 2009 Hayes was nominated for Best Irish Female, at the 2009 Meteor Ireland Music Awards, which took place on 17 March 2009 in Dublin. She lost out to
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. On 13 February 2009 the music video for the song "Home" debuted on MySpace. On 19 February 2009 she performed at the
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party in Los Angeles. The annual event takes place days before the
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, and celebrates the best of Irish popular culture. On 22 February 2009, it was confirmed on her website she would release a new EP titled '' Oliver'' and available from 9 March 2009. The EP's release was delayed as confirmed on her MySpace on 9 March. To make up for the delay in release a new track called "Ghost" was streamed on the website. On 13 March 2009 '' Oliver'' was made available through
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. On 14 April 2009 Hayes announced she had begun on new material for the next album. On 3 September 2009, Hayes performed at the 2012 stage at the 2009 Århus Festival. Her set-list featured new songs "Waiting for You" and "Shock to the System". On 20 October 2009, she confirmed that she was recording new material in France in the Blackbox studios. On 19 November 2009, she began a short European tour with performances in Austria, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. During these tour dates Hayes played new songs including "Tokyo", "Waiting for You" and "Shock to the System". At her gig in
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on 3 December, she performed a cover of
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's "
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". On 22 December 2009, Hayes released her cover of "Cloudbusting" for free from her website. In March 2010, Hayes featured on '' Ceol '10'', a special album in the Irish language. She previously appeared on ''Ceol 2007''. On the ''Ceol '10'' album, Hayes' song "Rith me go Crich" appeared alongside
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, Kila and
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.


''Let It Break'': 2010–2011

Hayes hinted a possible September 2010 release for her fourth album.. However, by October 2010 Hayes confirmed the album's delayed release until 2011 as she began to rework some tracks. During this time Hayes returned to live performances where she launched her autumn tour in
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, Ireland where she performed new tracks "Noise", "Hurricane" and "Beside Me". During the recording process Hayes took time out between recording sessions and live performances to write material for independent movie '' Janie Jones'', by directed by David M. Rosenthal. Three of Hayes' tracks; "Just a Game", "Fight for Me" and "Hurricane" featured in the film. This soundtrack was later released on 11 October 2011. It also features the studio version of "Waiting for You" which she played as a promo track and on her tours throughout 2010 and 2011. On 13 February 2011, Hayes confirmed on
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's ''
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'' her fourth studio album would be released by May 2011 and this coincided with a tour across Ireland. Hayes confirmed on her official website the fourth album ''Let It Break'' was due for May release with a single due earlier as recording in Ireland and France neared completion. Gemma confirmed 'Shock to the System' will appear on the album. On 15 March 2011, she confirmed that a track called "Noise" will feature on the album. On 10 April 2011, she confirmed that the new album will be released on 27 May 2011 in Ireland and the album's name, ''
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''. During promotion of 'Let It Break', Hayes confirmed she had written two songs for
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(director of US TV series ''
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'', '' Weeds'', and ''
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'') for a forthcoming film directed by him.


"Wicked Game" single, ''Chasing Sparks'' (2012)

On 16 February 2012, Hayes revealed in an interview with ''
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s 'Downtown', she recorded a cover version of
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's "
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" for US Teen drama ''
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'', the song featured throughout her 2012 tour playlist. On 1 March 2012, gemmahayes.com confirmed her cover of "Wicked Game" will appear on ''
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'' on 12 March and will be available to download as a single.
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of Bell X1 confirmed Hayes would appear on his solo debut album Noonan has previously worked on Hayes' previous albums. This album was released in May 2014, where Hayes provides vocals on 'The Snowman'. In June 2012, Hayes announced she began work on writing new tracks and she planned to move to Los Angeles. This move was later shelved where she continued to reside in
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. On 30 June 2012, Hayes played the Concert At Sea festival in The Netherlands. On 15 July 2012, new songs recorded by Hayes appeared on iTunes through the Velvet Ear Collection. These new tracks included "All The Kids Go" which previously appeared on US TV show ''
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'', "Jet" a demo version of what became "There's Only Love" featured on ''Let It Break'' album and other tracks including "Devastated" and "Simple Life" also featured. "Simple Life" proved to be the most popular of the tracks peaking in the Irish
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chart at number 35 upon its debut on the chart. On 9 August 2012, Hayes confirmed through e-mail to fans she continued to work on new material. She also revealed she was working with David Odlum on his side-project and she also hinted at the release of a live album due for 2013 (this release was later postponed). Hayes confirmed a new tour dates for both Ireland and the UK beginning in October 2012. In September 2012, she featured in a campaign called "30 Songs / 30 Days" to support '' Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide'', a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book. On 16 November 2012,
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Ireland confirmed via their official Facebook page their 2012 Christmas advertisement, featuring a Christmas themed track performed by Hayes and
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. On 21 November 2012, Hayes confirmed she would record her upcoming gig in Dublin's Olympia on 9 December to release it as a live album in early 2013. On 22 April 2013 Hayes confirmed through an email to fans she hoped to release a special limited vinyl featuring live performances gathered at some of her tour dates. Each limited edition vinyl will be numbered and signed by the artist herself. She also confirmed to have written some new songs and is expected to go into the studio soon to record them for the forthcoming LP. ''Chasing Sparks'' was the name given for a future EP release which has since been postponed. It was expected to be released as a download in mid-December 2012. On 21 November 2012, she confirmed the release of the EP. It was confirmed on 28 November 2012 that her version of
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was expected to appear on the EP. It was confirmed on 23 December 2012 that a cover of Sparklehorse' 'Beautiful Widow' was to feature on the EP with vocals from
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.


''Night & Day'', ''Bones + Longing'': 2013–2019

On 30 April 2013, Hayes confirmed she had begun recording her fifth studio album in France. In August 2013, Hayes launched her
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campaign which offered fans the opportunity to support and assist the production of her fifth studio album. On 16 August 2013, on her new official website Hayes provided more details about the
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campaign. Here Hayes revealed the title of the planned live vinyl release ' Night & Day'. On 21 September 2013 it was confirmed that Hayes' PledgeMusic campaign was completed. On 3 December 2013 Hayes was interviewed by
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magazine where she discussed the album's recording moving to the UK, after demos and recordings set in France and Dublin. On 10 April 2014, Hayes revealed through her Facebook page three titles of new songs to feature on the album due in the summer. These tracks include "To Be Your Honey", "Palomino" and "Making My Way Back". A 15-second live recording of "Be Your Honey" was also revealed. Hayes also confirmed mixing and mastering will take place in France in the coming month as Hayes finishes recording in London. In April 2014, Hayes performed a number of UK gigs prior to the forthcoming fifth studio album. These gigs were part of her Pledge Music campaign. Hayes is expected to tour the rest of Europe in the fall following the release of her new album due late summer 2014. On 9 July 2014 David Odlum (producer of Bones+Longing) confirmed the album was mixed and mastered. On 29 July 2014 Hayes' manager Simon Long confirmed a photoshoot took place to promote the forthcoming album release. On 1 August 2014 Hayes confirmed through her Pledge Music page her fifth studio album is titled ''Bones + Longing''. On 23 August 2014, Hayes performed alongside
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as part of Printer Clips on RTÉ's
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. Both artists performed 'The Snowman'. Hayes also confirmed her support of Printer Clips across Ireland in December 2014. On 14 November Bones+Longing was released in Ireland, with a release in the UK & North American on 17 November. It received a wider international release in on 2 March 2015 and 6 March 2015 in German speaking territories. She is the featured vocalist on "Counting Down The Days" by Above & Beyond which is the fourth single from their album, '' We Are All We Need''. In late 2015, Hayes confirmed she began writing some new tracks and hoped to release some new material in the coming months. In 2016, Hayes appeared as part of
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; a compilation featuring tracks by Irish artists for the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. "Caught In The Rapids" illustrated Hayes describing the relationship between rivers and city life, the song is written about the
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in Dublin. Teaming up with many other Irish artists she performed at the Starboard Home event on June 22, 2016 in Dublin. On February 2, 2019, Hayes performed at a special event hosted at the Irish Embassy in London which celebrated Irish women and their contribution to arts and Irish culture.


New Album: 2020–present

On July 11, 2020, Hayes confirmed through Twitter she initially planned on uploading two or three new songs in the autumn of 2020, however this never came to fruition. Hayes began working on her sixth album in September 2020 reteaming with some of the producers and musicians involved in the making of ''Night on My Side''. On 9 April 2021, Hayes revealed some new material during the recording process of her new album. Hayes was expected to release the album in autumn 2021, but it was deferred to late summer 2022. The recording of the album was delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions in Ireland. The album is being recorded between
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and
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in
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with
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acting as producer. During summer 2022, Hayes performed a number of live shows across Ireland with a full tour scheduled for autumn 2022 to coincide with the forthcoming album release. According to Turning Pirate the first single from her new album is titled 'A Reminder of Another'.


Personal life

Following a stint living in
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, Hayes returned to
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. In November 2013 Hayes moved to
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, intent on commuting between Ireland and the United Kingdom regularly. On 6 February 2014, Hayes confirmed she gave birth to a baby boy in January 2014. In August 2014, Hayes married Stuart Musgrave. In May 2016, Gemma gave birth to her second child. In 2020, Hayes moved back to Ireland, where she resides in
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.


In media

* Hayes was on the '' Ceol '07'' album, which was released on 2 March 2007, singing "Rith Mé Go Crích", an Irish language version of "Ran For Miles", which originally appeared on ''Night on my Side''. Other Irish artists who appeared included
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and
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. The track "Rith Mé Go Crích" reappeared on '' Ceol '10'' which was released in 2010. * She appeared on the cover of the June 2008 edition of ''
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'' magazine. * "4:35am" appeared in the 2006 film, ''
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''. * She dueted with
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on "Faithful" from his album ''
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''.


Discography

Albums: * ''
Night on My Side ''Night on My Side'' is the debut album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, first released by Source Records on 24 May 2002 in the Republic of Ireland, 27 May 2002 in the United Kingdom, and 10 July 2002 in Japan. The album's release in No ...
'' (2002) * '' The Roads Don't Love You'' (2005) * ''
The Hollow of Morning ''The Hollow of Morning'' is the third album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released on 2 May 2008 in the Ireland. " Out of Our Hands" was the first single from the album. The album was released in North America on 20 May 2008 on iTune ...
'' (2008) * ''
Let It Break ''Let It Break'' is the fourth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes. It was released in Ireland on 27 May 2011. The album was recorded in Westland Studios in Dublin, Ireland, Black Box Studios in Noyant La Gravoyère, France and ...
'' (2011) * '' Night & Day'' (2014) (limited release) * '' Bones + Longing'' (2014) * ''TBC'' (2023) EPs: * 4.35am (2001) *
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(2001) *3 Miles (2002) *Sampler (2005) *Poinsettia (2005) * iTunes Live: London Festival 2008 (2008) * Oliver (2009)


Awards

* 2002 – Best Female Artist – Hot Press Awards – Winner * 2002 –
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– Nomination * 2003 – Irish Tatler Woman of the Year Music Award * 2006 – Best Irish Female Artist – Meteor Ireland Music Awards – Winner * 2009 – Best Irish Female Artist – Meteor Ireland Music Awards – Nomination * 2009 – Best Solo Female – Irish Music Television: Video Music Awards – Home (Video) – Nomination * 2012 – Best Live Female Irish Artist of 2012 by
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Ireland


See also

* The Cake Sale * Printer Clips *
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Gemma Hayes at Irish Music Central
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, Gemma 1977 births Living people Irish women singer-songwriters Musicians from County Tipperary 21st-century Irish women singers Vertical Records artists Second Motion Records artists