Member Since: 11/1/2006
Band Website: gillianodonovan.com
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xxx Gillian O'Donovan is a singer/songwriter/actress who started out in the 80s as a backing vocalist with artists like Eurythmics, John Cale, Phil Collins, Jo Cocker, Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen on their solo projects, Sir Bob Geldof, Spandau Ballet, Big Country, Keith Emerson, John Par, Max and the Broadway Metal Choir, The The, Thunder, FM, Junior Walker, (and many more that she’s forgotten about) until moving to France in 1990. It was there that she started to find her own voice, and drew on her early love of the great divas of tamla motown and atlantic records, like Aretha, Chaka and Lorraine Ellison through projects ranging from soul to trip hop and then jazz. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place when she started to listen to Ella and Sara Vaughan and began to really explore the possibilities of her voice. In 2005, she visited Kerala in Southern India to study Carnatic Indian music, and now her head buzzes with ragas as well as her beloved jazz scales.
She studied Carnatic music in Kerala in 2005 with Sateesh Kumar and continued working in cyberspace with Shivkumar Kalyanaraman.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None