Imelda May

Imelda May is an Irish singer, musician and composer born in Dublin in 1974, she is also the wife of guitarist Darrel Higham. Imelda grew up with artists like Buddy Holly , Gene Vincent , Eddie Cochran or Billie Holiday , and even though in the meantime she made a commercial for Findus at the age of 14, she would head for a career as a singer, starting to tour Dublin Clubs at the age of 16, even though some of her concerts were cancelled because of her age. In 2003, she began a professional career, and in the same year she recorded her first album No Turning Back, which will be released only two years later at Foot Tapping Records, a division of the same label: Ambassador Records which will release Love Tattoo in 2007; on the following tour she will open notably for Jeff Beck, Elbow and Roots Manuva, and will be spotted by Jools Holland who will programme it in her famous Later... With Jools Holland. On January 31, 2010, she appeared alongside Jeff Beck for the Grammy Awards ceremony, where they performed How High The Moon in tribute to Les Paul , a little later that year she released her third Mayhem opus , which soon exploded in the Irish and British charts. After a much longer break than in the past, Imelda May returns in spring 2014 with her fourth seedling entitled Tribal, still in the same vein Rockabilly, but with a significant contribution Blues notably on the pieces Gypsy in Me and Wicked Way.
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