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Sephira (also known as Sephira - The Irish Rock Violinists), the Irish sister violin duo, recorded and released a version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in 2011 on their Starlight Christmas album, with the track later featured on their 2013 Eternity EP. Known for their synchronized violin performances and distinct Celtic sibling harmonies ...
Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss recorded the song for Ma's 2008 holiday album, Songs of Joy & Peace. Anthony Kearns (The Irish Tenors) performs it annually and has featured on TV across the USA at Christmas. Michael McDonald covered it on his 2009 album This Christmas as a duet with his wife Amy Holland, using only the first three of the traditional ...
John York Millar Johnston (15 July 1909 – 21 August 1951), known professionally as Danny Malone, was an Irish tenor. [1] [2] [3]Malone had considerable success in the 1930s after a successful audition with the BBC, selling thousands of gramophone records while also touring extensively throughout the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.
Daniel Harte and Bill Hughes formed the idea of a trio of Irish tenors during the Cannes film festival. [when?] Harte and Hughes wanted to produce a television special and first approached Ireland's Finbar Wright (one of Ireland's leading romantic tenors) in 1998 to join the group, but Wright's recording contract with Sony BMG prohibited such a venture.
Born to an Irish-American family in Grand Island, Nebraska, Feeney had two brothers. [1] He started singing as a boy soprano in St. Mary Cathedral, [2] his parish church choir and after graduating from St. Mary's Cathedral High School, [3] he landed a guest appearance on the show Youth Opportunity Hour.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines hallelujah as “a song or shout of praise to God,” but biblical scholars will tell you it’s actually a smash-up of two Hebrew words: “hallel” meaning ...
Edward Finbar Wright (born 26 September 1957), known popularly as Finbar Wright, [1] is a popular music singer, songwriter, [2] and poet from County Cork, Ireland.. Wright is a classically trained tenor [3] who emerged during the 1990s in Ireland and has become one of that country's "most popular singers", [4] concentrating on romantic, jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience.
Although offered a career in opera, O'Dowda was drawn to popular music and, in the early 1950s, he moved to England in order to advance his prospects. [3] There, he formed The Four Ramblers musical group with Val Doonican. [4] Subsequently, he enjoyed solo success on BBC Radio, guesting on programmes such as Just A Song At Twilight and Music ...