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Gillian O'Donovan

About Me

CONTACT : [email protected]
MySpace Layouts I..m a girl with a finger in a lot of different pies..this particular project is a duo with sly athann. Here are a few trax from our first album together on an indie label from Brittany, France. We started out as a song writing partnership and then won the largest Internet contest in Europe, WANADOO DISCOVERIES EUROPE 2005 (80,000 votes cast). We won the UK competition and then faced acts from France, Spain and the Netherlands in the final (all signed to major labels with serious publicity machines). The result was announced live at the NIKAIA stadium in Nice. It was good to see the power of the Internet to put artists in direct contact with a large public..But we know all about that on myspace, don..t we ? Gillian O'Donovan

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/22/2006
Band Website: gillianodonovan.com/sly_gill.htm
Band Members:

Sly Athann & Gillian O'Donovan - 1st album - BUY IT on iTunes

Sly Athann & Gillian O'Donovan - 1st album - BUY IT on CDBABY


Influences: I worked with a lot of artists in the 80s as a backing vocalist based in London before I moved to France.. Eurythmics, John Cale (Velvet Underground), Phil Collins, Jo Cocker, Roger Taylor and Brian May of QUEEN, Sir Bob Geldof, Spandeau Ballet, Big Country, Keith Emerson, John Parr, Max and the Broadway Metal Choir, The The, Thunder, FM, Junior Walker ...and I'm sure they have all had some effect on me for better and for worse..but my first love will always be the great soul divas that I heard in the 70s on tamla motown and atlantic..Aretha and Chakka,Lorraine Ellison,Dusty Springfield. It was only later that I began to listen to Ella and Sara Vaughn...
Record Label: Black Swing Reekordz
Type of Label: Indie

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link to my blog   http://abitchaboutbrittany.blogspot.com/
Posted by Gillian O'Donovan on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:40:00 PST