Gemma Hayes

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Name = Gemma Hayes


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Resides in = Beverly Hills, CA
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Origin = Ballyporeen, Tipperary, Ireland
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Years_active = 2001 - present
Label = Source Records 2001-2005; Second Motion Records (North America) 2008-
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Gemma Hayes is a singer-songwriter born on August 11 1977 in Ballyporeen, Tipperary, Ireland.

Early life

One of eight children, Hayes was surrounded by music from an early age whether it was coming from stereos in her siblings' bedrooms or being played by her father, a keyboardist in a local band. By the time she left for boarding school in County Limerick, Hayes was already proficient at piano and found that the music she'd used to counter the boredom of living in a small town now offered her escape from the strict regime of her new home. Although she enrolled at University in Dublin, Hayes soon left to concentrate on music, working part-time in a laundrette during the day and playing the city's circuit at night.

Music career

Hayes signed to Source Records in 2001 and issued the folksy "4.35am" EP and the more band-oriented "Work to a Calm" EP before releasing her debut album, "Night on my Side", in 2002. The album was nominated for that year's Mercury Music Prize but lost out to Ms. Dynamite's "A Little Deeper".

After touring "Night on my Side" Hayes took two years out from the music business; "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" [http://www.gemmahayes.com/newsite/biography.php] .

In late 2005 Hayes returned with her second album, "The Roads Don't Love You", and picked up the Best Irish Female Artist award at the 2006 Meteor Ireland Music Awards shortly before completing a small tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Hayes co-wrote the song "Hazy" with Adam Duritz for the Counting Crows' live album, New Amsterdam [http://countingcrows.com/news/news.php?uid=3] . Duritz then likely references her in the song "Washington Square," from the March 2008 Counting Crows release, "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings" - in the context of talking about his travelings (specifically, "wander [ing] the highways, from Dublin to Berkley"), the song's speaker says that he's "heard the songbirds of Ballyporeen."

On of August 14 2006 Gemma [http://www.myspace.com/gemmahayes2006 announced via her] MySpace profile that she had begun work on her third album in Black Box Studios in France to be produced by her former guitarist David Odlum. Hayes posted rough demo versions of a few of these songs on her MySpace profile during recording, including "Out of Our Hands", "Home", and "This Is What You Do".

Gemma Hayes' third album "The Hollow of Morning" was released on May 2nd, 2008 in Ireland. Gemma has also recently signed a deal in the US. The Hollow of Morning will be released in the US by Second Motion Records based out of Chapel Hill, NC on Sept 30th. Second Motion works with such artists as: Daniel Lanois, Adam Franklin of Swervedriver, Brian Vander Ark and many others.

This will be the label's first release. Pre-orders are available on the label's website, and include an mp3 version of a non-album track with purchase.

While on her 2008 Tour in the UK, Gemma announced that she plans to release an acoustic album by the end of 2008. Gemma has confirmed that she will start recording her fourth album in August, 2008 [ [http://lowlyjourno.blogspot.com/2008/05/hayes-code.html Declan Cashin: Hayes Code ] ] .

Popular Culture

*Her song 'Two Step' was featured in a season 2 episode of the hit TV show "Grey's Anatomy".

*She was also featured in a duet with Norwegian singer Magnet on a Bob Dylan cover, "Lay Lady Lay" in the 2005 feature film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith".

*Gemma Hayes appeared on Ceol 2007 album released March 2nd 2007 in the Republic of Ireland 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 appear include Bell X1 and Paddy Casey.

*Gemma appeared on the cover of the June 2008 edition of State Magazine.

*Her song "4:35am" appeared in the 2006 movie "Flicka".

Discography

Main article: Gemma Hayes discography

Awards

*2001 - Best Female Artist - Hot Press Awards
*2002 - Mercury Music Prize - Nomination
*2006 - Best Irish Female Artist - Meteor Ireland Music Awards

ee also

*The Cake Sale

References

External links

* [http://www.gemmahayes.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.gemmahayes.co.uk/ Fan Site (gemmahayes.co.uk)]
* [http://www.gemmahayes-makingwaves.net/ Fan Site]
* [http://www.irishmusiccentral.com/gemmahayes Gemma Hayes at Irish Music Central]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371023/ Gemma Hayes at Internet Movie Database]
* [http://lorseau.hinah.com/gallery.php?c=pzic&s=concert&g=gemmahayes Concert photos] by Laurent Orseau

Navbox Musical artist
name = Gemma Hayes
title = Gemma Hayes
background = solo_singer

group1 = Albums
list1 = "Night on My Side" (2002)· "The Roads Don't Love You" (2005)· "The Hollow of Morning" (2008)

group2 = EPs
list2 = "4.35am" (2001)· "Work to a Calm" (2001)

group3 = Singles
list3 = "Hanging Around" (2002) · "Let a Good Thing Go" (2002) · "Back of My Hand" (2002) · "Happy Sad" (2005) · "Undercover" (2006) · "Out Of Our Hands" (2008) · "At Constant Speed" (2008)