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Paul Brady, singer, songwriter, musician, and producer has for over fifty years been at the forefront of music in Ireland, both traditional and contemporary. Spending the first decade and a half of his professional career absorbing influences from Jazz, Blues, Pop, Country and traditional Irish music throughout many different musical partnerships, he began writing his own songs around the end of the 1970’s and since then has established a reputation as one of Ireland’s leading singer-songwriters.

Not long after he released ‘Hard Station’, his first album of his own compositions in 1981, his songwriting came to the attention of artists worldwide. Since then, his songs have been sung by many international artists including Tina Turner, Santana, Art Garfunkel, Bonnie Raitt, Trisha Yearwood and Phil Collins and, closer to home, Maura O’Connell, Eleanor McEvoy and Mary Black.

Paul Brady continues to write, record and perform. He has been married to Mary Elliott since 1975, has two grown-up children and five grandchildren. He lives in Dublin.

(Portrait by Colin Davidson)

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