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Karan Casey is tagged as: folk, celtic, irish, female vocalists, ireland

Karan Casey (b. 1969 in Ballyduff Lower, County Waterford, Ireland) is an Irish folk singer and jazz singer, and a former member of the Irish band Solas.
Her family encouraged her to sing in the house, in a church choir and at school. At Waterford Regional Technical College she studied piano then took music at University College Dublin in 1987. Having learned to copy Ella Fitzgerald’s scat singing, she performed in a Dublin bistro several nights per week while still a student. At the Royal Irish Academy of Music she studied classical music and sang in a jazz band, then a folk-ballad band, then another jazz band. She also fell under the influence of Dublin folk singer Frank Harte. During this time she also formed her own band, called Dorothy.
In 1993 Karan moved to New York City. There she studied jazz at Long Island University. When she encountered Irish traditional music sessions in New York she started singing Irish traditional music again. During this time she mostly sang in bars and locals. For most of 1994 she sang with a group called Atlantic Bridge. At the end of the year she joined Seamus Egan and others in Solas. She sang five songs on their first album in 1996. In the same year she sang in Tramps club in Manhattan, accompanied only by a percussionist. They m...
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Another Day
She Is Like The Swallow
The Ballad Of Tim Evans
The Four Loom Weaver
Distant Shore
Just A Note
The Curra Road
Quiet Of The Night
Lord MacDonald's
Song Of Lies
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Top 10 Karan Casey Albums
Distant Shore
Songlines
The Winds Begin to Sing
Chasing the Sun
Ships In The Forest
Seal Maiden: A Celtic Musical
Seal Maiden (celtic musical) MFLP
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