Imelda May
Imelda Mary Higham , professionally known as Imelda May, is an Irish musician, producer and singersongwriter. Born and raised in The Liberties area of Dublin, May began her career in music at age sixteenperforming with a number of local bands and musicians before forming her own band in 2002. She released her debut studio album, No Turning Back, in 2003 and relocated to London, United Kingdom with husband and guitarist Darrel Higham after its release.
May was born in Dublin onJuly 1974 in the Liberties in the south inner city. She is the youngest of five siblings, with sisters Edel Foy and Maria OReilly, and brothers Brendan Clabby and Fintan Clabby. In 1991, She attended Senior College Ballyfermot, where she studied Art, Graphics and Printmaking. Her early musical influences were folk and rock and roll, especially the music of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. By the age of nine, she was a fan of Rockabilly and Blues, particularly Elmore James and Billie Holiday. At fourteen, she sang in an advertisement for Findus Fish Fingers of which she told Graham Norton on his talk show that she and her friends as a result got known as the Fish Finger Girls. However, her career began at agewhen she began touring the Dublin club circuit and she was occasionally barred from her own shows at Dublins Bruxelles club for being underage. I was getting tips from the best musicians in Dublin, May said. One of them said, your voice i
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