Paul Brady

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Paul Brady
Paul Brady
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Trick or Treat
  UK 62 04/06/1991 (1 week)
Spirits colliding
  UK 94 06/10/1995 (1 week)
Nobody Knows - The Best Of
  IE 23 01/06/2000 (79 weeks)
Oh what a world
  IE 3 05/11/2000 (19 weeks)
The Missing Liberty Tapes
  IE 32 04/10/2001 (5 weeks)
The Paul Brady Songbook
  IE 57 12/12/2002 (6 weeks)
Say what you feel
  IE 10 02/10/2005 (7 weeks)
Hooba Dooba
  IE 24 03/18/2010 (5 weeks)
Dancer in the Fire - Anthology
  IE 42 04/26/2012 (5 weeks)
The Vicar St. Sessions Vol. 1
  IE 4th 05/01/2015 (7 weeks)
Unfinished business
  IE 22nd 09/15/2017 (3 weeks)
Singles
The World Is What You Make It
  UK 67 01/13/1996 (2 weeks)
The Long Goodbye
  IE 22nd 04/13/2000 (10 weeks)
The Hawana Way
  IE 43 06/05/2003 (3 weeks)

Paul Joseph Brady (born May 19, 1947 in Strabane ) is an Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter .

Life

Paul Brady was born in Strabane, Northern Ireland . He attended St. Columb's College in what was then Londonderry and University College in Dublin . He learned to play the piano and guitar. In 1963 he started working as a bar musician in Donegal . He played rhythm and blues and soultitles with the bands The Inmates, The Kult, Rootzgroup and Rockhouse . In 1967 he replaced Michael Johnston with the Johnstons . They moved to London in 1969 and New York in 1972 to reach a wider audience. In 1974 Brady returned to Ireland and became a member of the folk band Planxty , where he replaced Christy Moore . The band musicians included Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny . In 1976 Planxty dissolved. Brady then played in a duo with Andy Irvine. Their album Andy Irvine and Paul Brady was very successful and received good reviews. During this time he played guitar as an accompanist on other albums.

In 1978 Brady's first solo album, Welcome Here Kind Stranger, was released. It was voted Melody Maker Folk Album of the Year . Brady decided to go back to work as a rock and pop musician, however, and released albums such as Hard Station, True for You, Back to the Center, and Primitive Dance. His album Trick or Treat was in 1991 by the producers of Steely Dan , Gary Katz, produced. Numerous Brady songs have been covered, including Santana , Dave Edmunds and Bonnie Raitt . Tina Turner's Paradise is Here is also by Brady. In 2001 Brady founded his own record label PeeBee Music.

Honors

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1978: Welcome Here Kind Stranger (Mulligan)
  • 1981: Hard Station ( Polygram )
  • 1983: True for You ( Polydor )
  • 1984: Full Moon ( Demon Records )
  • 1985: Back to the Center (Demon Records)
  • 1987: Primitive Dance (Mercury)
  • 1991: Trick or Treat ( Fontana )
  • 1992: Songs & Crazy Dreams (compilation; Fontana)
  • 1995: Spirits Colliding (Fontana)
  • 1999: Nobody Knows: The Best of Paul Brady (compilation; Rykodisc)
  • 2000: Oh What a World (Rykodisc)
  • 2002: The Paul Brady Songbook (Live; PeeBee Music)
  • 2003: The (Missing) Liberty Tapes (Live from 1978; PeeBee Music)
  • 2005: Say What You Feel (PeeBee Music)
  • 2010: Hooba Dooba (PeeBee Music)
  • 2015: The Vicar St. Sessions Vol. 1
  • 2017: Unfinished Business (Proper Records)

Video albums

  • 2002: The Paul Brady Songbook (Live)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: Ireland (from 2000) / UK charts
  2. ↑ a b c d biography on the official website (English), accessed January 18, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Brady, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brady, Paul Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Strabane