James Vincent McMorrow

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James Vincent McMorrow at the 2011 SXSW Music Festival
James Vincent McMorrow at the 2011 SXSW Music Festival
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Early in the morning
  IE 22nd 03/04/2010 (82 weeks)
  UK 68 
silver
silver
03/19/2011 (3 weeks)
Post Tropical
  IE 2 January 16, 2014 (21 weeks)
  CH 78 01/26/2014 (1 week)
  UK 28 01/25/2014 (2 weeks)
  US 76 02/01/2014 (1 week)
We Move
  IE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 09/09/2016 (10 weeks)
  CH 63 09/11/2016 (1 week)
  UK 47 09/15/2016 (1 week)
True Care
  IE 22nd 06/02/2017 (1 week)
Singles
Higher love
  IE 4th 08/15/2013 (16 weeks)
  UK 21st 
silver
silver
05/11/2011 (16 weeks)
Cavalier
  IE 66 10/17/2013 (2 weeks)
I'm in Love (with Kygo )
  AT 38 05/06/2016 (1 week)
  CH 39 05/01/2016 (1 week)
  UK 99 05/05/2016 (1 week)

James Vincent McMorrow (born January 14, 1983 in Dublin ) is an Irish folk pop musician .

biography

James Vincent McMorrow originally started out as a drummer in heavy metal bands when he was 15 . It was only at the age of 19 that he began to write his own music with the guitar in the style of the singer-songwriters of the 1970s. His trademark is his high voice. As a folk singer, he performed in the pubs of his hometown and also recorded his own pieces. He released his first EP The Sparrow and the Wolf in 2008. He finished his debut album in March 2010 after a six-month seclusion on the Irish coast. Early in the Morning only reached number 22 on the Irish album charts, but stayed in the Top 75 for 81 weeks and eventually went platinum . It was also nominated for the Choice Music Prize .

After the success at home, interest also grew abroad. This was followed by appearances at the Royal Festival Hall and on British television with Jools Holland and a year after its first release, the album was also released abroad. It hit the charts in several European countries and reached number 7 on the folk charts in the US. He had another success in late 2011 with a recording of Steve Winwood's song Higher Love , which became a hit single when it was used in television advertising.

In 2012 McMorrow toured the USA with Bell X1, among others . He also won a European Border Breakers Award . The following year he went to Texas to record his second album, Post Tropical . It was released in January 2014 and reached number 2 in Ireland. The album was also successful abroad and in the USA it made it to number 76 on the official album charts .

A deluxe version followed ten months later, with three additional remixes, two live recordings and three new tracks - including Look Out , for which a video by Emma J Doyle was published.

In January 2015, McMorrow decided to publish the album Live at the Ace Hotel , a recording of his last tour in Los Angeles, as a free download on his website.

Discography

Albums

  • Early in the Morning (2010)
  • Post Tropical (2014)
  • We Move (2016)
  • True Care (2017)

EPs

  • The Sparrow and the Wolf (2008)
  • James Vincent McMorrow (only in USA, 2010)

Songs

  • This Old Dark Machine (2010)
  • The Sparrow and the Wolf (2010)
  • If I Had a Boat (2010)
  • If My Heart Should Somehow Stop (2010)
  • Higher Love (2011)
  • We Don't Eat (2012)
  • Cavalier (2014), video by Aoife McArdle
  • Red Dust (2014), video by Aoife McArdle
  • Glacier (2014), video by Aoife McArdle
  • Gold (2014), video by Robin Leveille
  • Look Out (2014), video by Emma J Doyle

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Ireland - Switzerland - UK charts - US charts
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ^ A b The New Irish Songwriter: James Vincent McMorrow , Tara Dougherty, Irish America, April / May 2012
  4. ↑ James Vincent McMorrow gives away live album. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 20, 2015, accessed on August 3, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME McMorrow, James Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish folk pop musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin