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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Finbar Wright, Liam Clancy, Frank Patterson, John Mccormack, Joseph O'mara, Colm Wilkinson, Ronan Tynan, Brian Kennedy, Josef Locke, Irish Tenors, Anthony Kearns, Brendan O'dowda, Walter J. Scanlan. Excerpt:Anthony Kearns (born 17 August 1971, Kiltealy , County Wexford , Ireland ) is a founding member of the Irish Tenors , along with Ronan Tynan and John McDermott . Early career He was one of six children in a musical family, played the accordion and sang traditional Irish songs with his family. He attended F.C.J. Secondary School Bunclody, then studied catering and hotel management. . He achieved success at the age of 21 in 1993 after entering a national radio competition "Ireland's Search for a Tenor" on the Gay Byrne programme. This was run to celebrate the issuing of a new ten pound note. The only competitor not to have had formal training, he won the event, singing The Impossible Dream and Danny Boy on a city street in Dublin. One of his prizes was an appearance on Gay Byrne's Late Late Show on TV. He began training with vocal coach Veronica Dunne who had been a judge on the show. After that he relinquished his various day jobs to pursue a full-time career in music. Anthony is rapidly making is name in the world of opera, a genre for which he has a great love. He sang Fenton in an Italian production of Falstaff, sang Faust for Opera Ireland, and will sing Don Jose in Carmen in Ireland in June 2010. Irish Tenors Kearns, Tynan and John McDermott were brought together for a concert at the Royal Dublin Society in 1998. The concert was broadcast on the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1999 and the group found itself in huge demand for concerts across the Atlantic. After only a few months of international prominence, McDermott had left the group, to be replaced by ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Rachel Tucker, Jessie Buckley, Colm Wilkinson, Edward Mulhare, Susan Mcfadden. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rachel Tucker (born in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish singer and actress who competed as one of the finalists in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008. She currently stars as the lead role of Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked in the West End. Tucker grew up singing on the cabaret circuit from the age of 15 with her father, Tommy (Tucker) Kelly and sister Margaret Kelly under the groups name Tucker Kelly and the Kelstar. She was a member of the Arts Youth Theatre during the late 1990s featuring in shows such as Ecstasy and Our Day out. She then went on to feature in Michael Poyners version of the Rockin Mikado as Katisha. She also featured as a contestant with sister Margaret on Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music singing "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!". She also competed in the talent show Star for a Night making the final with her performance of "Kids". Tucker trained at the Royal Academy of Music She worked with Any Dream Will Do winner Lee Mead in the 2005 United Kingdom tour of the Rock musical, Tommy as Sally Simpson. In December 2007 Tucker appeared as Dorothy in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, written by John Kane at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. The Stage described her performance as "looking and sounding uncannily like the legendary Garland". Tucker recorded a version of the civil rights anthem "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" which was used in a television advertisement for Libresse in 2005 entitled "March". Tucker was chosen as one of the twelve finalists on the show in which began in March 2008, appearing each week in the live show ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17337367 ... Read more

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Title: Colm Wilkinson mixes it up in Winnipeg singing debut.(Music - Articles)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 21, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: d10

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