Ray Kelly (priest)

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Father Ray Kelly at a charity event in Vienna, 2017
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Where I Belong
  IE 4th 12/11/2014 (16 weeks)
An Irish Christmas Blessing
  IE 15th 12/11/2015 (5 weeks)

Father Ray Kelly S.PS (born April 1953 in Tyrrell Pass , County Meath , Ireland ) is an Irish Catholic priest and singer. He became known for his singing at a wedding in the St. Brigid′s & St. Mary parish church of Oldcastle in County Meath, northwest of Dublin on April 5, 2014 with a rewritten version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah .

Ray Kelly sang in his childhood and was part of the Dublin Priest Show , where he often appeared on the big stages.

He has already released two albums, a third is in the making. He gained international fame through his singing at the wedding of Chris and Lea O'Kane in April 2014. The video published on the YouTube video platform in the course of this had over 20,000 clicks within a few days. The video had over 72 million clicks by February 2020. His appearance was picked up by the media worldwide. In December 2015 Kelly was a guest on BBC Radio 4 on Midweek .

In 2018 he took part in Britains Got Talent , where he sang the REM song Everybody Hurts in the casting . He made it to the semifinals of the show.

Discography

Albums

  • Where I Belong (2014)
  • An Irish Christmas Blessing (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart discography Ireland
  2. ↑ a b c Report in the Tiroler Tageszeitung, accessed on April 13, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c d Report in the Tiroler Tageszeitung accessed on March 8, 2020
  4. ↑ BBC Radio 4 - Midweek . Bbc.co.uk. December 9, 2015. Accessed December 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ Bento : This Singing Priest Could Become Britain's New Superstar April 25, 2018
  6. ↑ Shock as Ms. Ray Kelly voted out on Britain's Got Talent finals , Irish Central on June 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kelly, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish priest and singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyrrell Pass, County Meath , Ireland