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Shaz OYE

... haunting, ballsy, original, a unique talent...

About Me


Buy SYLVIA FALLING for 99c TEXT "MUSIC 358" TO 5701

What the critics are saying about SYLVIA FALLING:
I’ve recently “discovered” an amazing singer, Shaz OYE from Dublin, she’s a singer in a million. What a voice! What a song, what a feeling for a song.
Larry Kirwan, Sirius Satellite Radio, USA

The album’s most sublime moment. With its melancholic piano line and soaring central notes, this is an achingly beautiful love song to women who are trapped within someone else’s idea of who they should be.
Brian Finnegan, GCN, The Choice Cut
OYE sidesteps the urge to rant and lets her glossy voice take over; on Sylvia Falling, a comment on fashion’s phoniness, it blends stunningly with piano
Sinead Gleeson, The Ticket, The Irish Times
Giants like Shirley Bassey and Nina Simone must’ve been on the turntable in OYE’s youth, because she has their same rare ability to plunge the cavernous depths, then resurface into heart-rending vibrato
Adrienne Murphy, Hotpress Magazine
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/14/2006
Band Website: shazoye.com
Band Members: There's just me! I play solo a lot of the time, sometimes I'm joined by Al Cowan on percussion, he plays a mean Djembe! For bigger headline gigs and for the recording of "Truth according to shaz OYE" I got to work with some very fine musicians Dave McCune - Drums, Dave Molloy - Guitars, Gavin Murphy - Piano, Joe Csibi - Bass, Rory Pierce - Cello and Richie Buckley - Sax.
Influences: Oh, everyone from Monteverdi and Josquin Desprez to Mozart, from Nina Simone and Odetta to Miles Davis, from Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Cash to Paul Weller.The only music I can't stand is homophobic rap. Life's too short.
Sounds Like: shaz OYE!
"the bastard love child of Nina Simone and Antony (of the Johnsons)"
Or so I've been told! Check out the CD and make up your own mind.

Record Label: My own - Radical Faeries - I'm self-financed
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Busy writing

Thanks for all of your emails and messages and questions as to what I'm up to - well I'm busy writing new songs at the moment, I'm in a very creative space and loving it! Plans for a tour have been pu...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:29:00 PST

Hollywood!!!

Hollywood, Wicklow that is!Half-way up a mountain in Wicklow, trying to enjoy some traffic-free space, lots of walks in the rain, lots of rain, no broadband. If you've sent a message or friend request...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:25:00 PST

Another Crawdaddy Review

Someone told me there was another review of my Crawdaddy posted on MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/reviewireland - here it is for those of you who want to read it. Many thanks to the author - Julie...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:44:00 PST

Crawdaddy review

Dave Harrington from Q102 kindly sent me this review that he wrote of last Friday's gig in Crawdaddy.As Eric packed up to make way for Shaz Oye, I wasn't sure what to expect. Luckily Dan had sampled h...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Fri, 18 May 2007 04:05:00 PST

RADICAL FAERIES BABIES

Two of the musicians who worked with me on Truth according to shaz OYE have become Daddies this week. Big congrats to Dave Molloy whose new baby James joins his gorgeous girls and to Dave McCune who...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Thu, 17 May 2007 06:05:00 PST

Sylvia Falling Single

Sylvia Falling, has been released to radio and is available to purchase as a download.You can buy it on three siteswww.itunes.iewww.downloadmusic.iewww.outersounds.ie there are links for all of these ...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Wed, 16 May 2007 06:31:00 PST

Hotpress photo

Check out the current issue of Hotpress magazine, they have printed a photo from the shoot I did with Podcasting Ireland to promote their first birthday bash which was in support of Teen Line Ireland ...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Mon, 07 May 2007 05:10:00 PST

O2's Making Waves Podcast

O2's Making Waves Podcast are soon to celebrate their first birthday. They'd like you to vote for the artists you'd most like to see on their birthday compilation.Check out their page to vote and if y...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:53:00 PST

Hotpress Reader's Poll the results are in...

Thanks to all of you who cast your votes, I really apprecate itI was voted as one of the Top 10 BEST IRISH FEMALE ARTISTS, one of the Top 10 BEST IRISH DEBUT ALBUMS,one of the Top 10 MOST PROMISING AC...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:15:00 PST

Radio play both sides of the Atlantic

It's great and makes a very welcome change to have DJ's coming to me asking for copies of my album! It was a VERY nice Christmas gift to have two DJ's approach me in December wanting to play tracks fr...
Posted by Shaz OYE on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:35:00 PST