Eleanor McEvoy

Born in Dublin on January 20, 1967, Celtic pop singer/songwriter Eleanor McEvoy started piano lessons at age four. Two years afterward she added the violin, and during her teenage years she became a member of the Junior Irish Youth Orchestra. After finishing college she joined the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, yet four years later she stepped away to launch a career as a pop performer. In 1992 her song “Only a Woman's Heart” anchored the anthology A Woman's Heart, an album that eventually topped Irish chart history as the biggest seller ever. Overnight the collection turned McEvoy into a household name, prompting the release of her self-titled debut album in 1994. Two years later came What's Following Me?, followed in mid-1999 by Snapshots, produced by Rupert Hine. While touring behind that record she first worked with Belfast pianist Brian Connor, a partnership that led to the 2001 release of the critically acclaimed Yola. Market Square Records reissued her debut in 2003, and the next year she delivered her fourth studio album, the SACD-compatible Early Hours.