Olivia Chaney

Since releasing her first EP this year 2010, Olivia Chaney is becoming one of the most celebrated new superstars in Uk folk, a gifted songwriter using a very clear, expressive tone of voice and a sure hands with several devices, including piano, acoustic guitar, harmonium, and cello. Chaney was created in Florence, Italy in 1982, and spent the majority of her child years in Oxford, Britain. In early stages, Chaney took see of her father’s record collection, and started bathing in the affects of noted vocalist/songwriters (especially Bob Dylan) and English folk-rock functions (such as for example Fairport Convention and Bert Jansch), while sometimes playing boogie-woogie with her father on the family members piano. By enough time she was 14, Chaney began monitoring at Chetham’s College of Music in Manchester, after she received a scholarship to review piano and tone of voice, and after concentrating on the traditional repertoire, she shifted to London’s Royal Academy of Music, also on scholarship or grant, with an focus on jazz and improvisation. After completing her research, Chaney divided her time taken between teaching herself your guitar as well as the harmonium and operating as an celebrity and vocalist with many British theater businesses, including Shakespeare’s World Theatre. This year 2010, Chaney documented and self-released an EP, which garnered enthusiastic evaluations for her mixture of traditional and modern designs and helped pass on the term about her in the U.K. folk community. Chaney added tracks to a set of compilations from Folk Law enforcement Information, The Oak, Ash and Thorn Task as well as the Woodbine & Ivy Music group, both released in 2011, and she participated in recordings by Seth Lakeman (Hearts & Thoughts), Alasdair Roberts (AN OPERATING Wonder Rock), and Wolf People (Fain). Chaney also performed and documented using the Balearic Folk Orchestra, and in 2013 she was nominated for just two prizes in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Honours, the Horizon Honor (for best growing designer) and Greatest Original Track (on her behalf composition “Going swimming in the Longest River”). Around enough time from the Folk Honours, it had been announced that Chaney experienced signed a documenting deal with non-esuch Information, and her 1st launch for the label, the recording The Longest River, was released in Apr 2015.