Damien Rice

Irish singer/songwriter Damien Grain launched his music career in the past due ’90s using the hard-hitting indie rock outfit Juniper. The group authorized to Polygram in 1997 and released two singles, “THE ENTIRE WORLD Is Deceased” and “Weathermen,” which do reasonably well on Irish radio, however when it emerged time and energy to record a full-length record, contractual rules in the label avoided Juniper from doing this, and Grain split. Following a short respite in European countries, Grain came back to Dublin to spotlight music once more, scrounging up more than enough cash to record a demonstration. He delivered it to manufacturer/film composer David Arnold (Björk, Nina Persson, Paul Oakenfold), and fortunately for him, Arnold cherished it and established Grain up in his individual mobile studio room to produce a record. His initial one, “The Blower’s Little girl,” was an instantaneous Top 20 strike when it made an appearance in fall 2001. Distributed gigs with McAlmont & Butler and folkie Kathryn Williams implemented in summertime 2002 when Grain released O within the U.K. The record hit the Expresses in 2003, which gained the Irishman an ardent band of American supporters furthermore to his Western european types, and after satiating these with a assortment of B-sides in 2005, Grain released his sophomore record, 9. The record highlighted his long-term collaborator and then-girlfriend Lisa Hannigan on support vocals, but in the helping tour, they ultimately split. Grain then proceeded to go silent for six years without the material or displays after helping Leonard Cohen in Dublin in 2008, however in 2014 he announced a little show on the 25th Wedding anniversary festivities of Whelan’s, a place within the Irish capital. His third studio room record, My Most liked Faded Illusion, was made by renowned American manufacturer Rick Rubin, and premiered in November 2014.