 |
Lift Off @ The Music Show | Call for Entries for the Hottest Emerging Act in Ireland
Friday, 3 February 2012 Have your album recorded, marketed and distribu..... |
 |
Electric Picnic steals the show at the Irish Festival Awards
Thursday, 2 February 2012 The summer of 2011 may be long forgotten but th..... |
 |
Meteor Choice Music Prize Announces New Award
Thursday, 2 February 2012 The search for the irish song of the year 2011..... |
 | |
.tabs.jpg) |
Important Changes Regarding Tours & Residencies Scheme Submissions
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 Due to the recent change in our tours & res..... |
 |
3 Oscar Nominations for 'Albert Nobbs' - A Film Featuring The Soundtrack by Irish Composer Brian Byrne
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 the critically acclaimed film &..... |
 |
Royalty Collections Climb to New Peak at €7.5 billion
Monday, 30 January 2012 Cisac publishes economic survey of authors&rsqu..... |
 |
5th Contemporary Keyboard Weekend
Friday, 27 January 2012 The contemporary music centre participates in t..... |
 |
National Concert Hall-Music&Health
Thursday, 26 January 2012 In 2010, the national centre for arts and healt..... |
 |
Meteor Music Prize 2012
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 Wednesday 25th january: the line-up for the met..... |
MISS PAULA FLYNN
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
MISS PAULA FLYNN, the Ballygowan sparkling girl, turned down two album offers before she wrote and released her self-titled debut.
Recording a top 5 Irish chart single while still a Dublin City University student started this breathy vocalist out on the right note.
The 29-year-old Armagh native had toured the cabaret circuit as a backing vocalist to the likes of the late Joe Dolan and Declan Nerney before becoming Jinx Lennon’s musical sidekick for close to a decade. The folk seductress finally made an impression in her own right with a slow, sultry version of David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’, which was quickly snapped up by Ballygowan execs and finally the Irish public.
After fielding calls along the lines of, “Who’s the girl singing the Bowie song in that Ballygowan ad?”, EMI came on board and decided to release it as a single, which went on to top the Irish charts.
Resisting the pressure to release an album of covers, Paula went back to Dublin City University where she earned her Communications degree. With college out of the way her time was spent in the studio, when she wasn’t making radio documentaries or playing gigs with Jinx Lennon. Her 2008 Christmas single ‘Happy Christmas Valentine’ was the first fruit of the process and was co-produced with ex-Bell X1 mainstay Brian Crosby. Her debut album Miss Paula Flynn was released on 25th September 2009.
Hot Press has labeled her “an artist paying serious allegiance to her own muse”, and recommended that her debut “should be part of everyone’s healthy musical diet.”
www.myspace.com/misspaulaflynn
