Wallis Bird

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Wallis Bird 2010 in Salzburg
Wallis Bird 2010 in Salzburg
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
New boots
  AT 59 03/19/2010 (1 week)
  IE 14th 07/30/2009 (3 weeks)
Wallis Bird
  DE 99 03/23/2012 (1 week)
  AT 51 03/23/2012 (1 week)
  IE 11 03/15/2012 (4 weeks)
Architect
  DE 93 04/25/2014 (1 week)
  AT 67 04/25/2014 (1 week)
  IE 24 04/17/2014 (3 weeks)
Home
  AT 31 10/14/2016 (1 week)

Wallis Bird (born January 29, 1982 in County Meath ) is an Irish musician . She lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Wallis Bird got her first guitar for her second birthday from her father, a pub owner. After she had an accident with a lawnmower at the age of one, in which all the fingers of her left hand were cut off and only four fingers could be sewn back on, she developed an extraordinary guitar style over the years: she plays a right-handed guitar upside down, without changing the strings.

After school, Wallis moved to the Irish capital, Dublin, to study music. As part of her studies, Bird came to Germany to take part in an exchange. There she got to know part of her later band (Christian Vinne - drums, Michael Vinne - bass) as well as her producer (Marcus Wüst). Other members of the band are Aoife O 'Sullivan (an Irish woman living in London) and Aidan (an Irish woman living in Belgium). After first appearances in Ireland, Germany and England, Bird decided to move to Germany for 18 months. Here she spent a guest semester at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim and produced her debut EP Branches Untangle . The released single Blossoms in the Street was able to stay in the German Top 100 Radio AP charts for twenty weeks.

In September 2007 Bird released their debut album entitled Spoons via Island Records , for which a large part of the recordings were made in Germany. The album debuted in the top 5 UK download album charts the first week after its release. In 2008 a major English daily newspaper Birds used the cover version of the Depeche Mode classic Just Can't Get Enough to attract public attention , and in 2009 it won the METEOR Music Award in the Hope for 2009 category . In autumn 2009 Bird was invited to accompany the Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela on their European tour, where they played a total of 16 shows in front of over 50,000 people.

The next studio album Birds was released in 2009/10 with New Boots via Columbia Records and Rubyworks . It entered Ireland at number 14 on the Irish album charts. In 2010 Wallis played over 90 shows across Europe. In the same year she received the METEOR Music Award in the Best Irish Female category.

In March 2012 Wallis Bird released their third album of the same name. It rose to number 11 in the Irish album charts, and it also reached the German and Austrian Top 100 for the first time. Bird was featured in various TV programs for promotional purposes, including the Irish talk show "The Late Late Show", TV Noir and Ina's night . Her song Encore was released with nine other guest appearances on the bonus CD Inas kleine Nachtmusik with Ina Müller's album Ich bin die .

The fourth studio album, called Architect , was released in April 2014 . At the beginning of 2016, Wallis Bird gave a concert lasting more than 12 hours in a Berlin club, where she was on stage with musician friends. Bird released her fifth studio album, Home , in October 2016, followed by a tour of Europe, Japan and Australia.

In March 2017, Wallis Bird was awarded the German Music Author's Prize in the Rock / Pop Composition category. The laudation was given by Mieze Katz , singer of the band Mia .

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Bird's songs, which she all writes herself, are shaped by Irish folk and rock to jazz and current music.

The Irish music magazine Hotpress Magazine wrote: “ Wallis is an extraordinary and convincing artist whose voice is a mixture of Janis Joplin in her early years and Eva Cassidy . Definitely an artist to look out for. "

Discography

Wallis Bird live in 2010

Albums

  • 2007: Spoons (debut album) Bird Records / Island Records UK
  • 2009/10: New Boots (Rubyworks / Columbia Records)
  • 2012: Wallis Bird
  • 2014: Architect
  • 2015: Yeah! Wallis Bird Live 2007-2014
  • 2016: Home
  • 2019: Woman

Singles and EPs

  • 2006: Branches Untangle (4-Track EP) (Bird Songs / Universal Island Records)
  • 2007: The Circle
  • 2007: Blossoms in the Street (Bird Records / Island Records UK)
  • 2008: Counting to Sleep
  • 2008: Just Can't Get Enough
  • 2009: To My Bones (Rubyworks)
  • 2009: LaLaLand (Rubyworks)
  • 2011: The Mistakes Are Intentional (limited special pressing)
  • 2012: Encore
  • 2014: Hardly Hardly

Compilations

  • 2015: Bird Songs (Japan only)

Awards

  • Meteor Music Award ( Hope for 2009 category ), 2009
  • IMTV Irish Music Video Award ( Best Solo Female Video category for To My Bones video ), 2009
  • Meteor Music Award ( Best Irish Female Category ), 2010
  • German Music Author Award ( Composition Rock / Pop Category ), 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT IE
  2. ↑ laut.de biography. Retrieved March 18, 2010 .
  3. ^ GEMA - Society for Musical Performance and Mechanical Reproduction Rights: German Music Author Award 2017: The winners . In: Website Title . ( gema.de [accessed on April 6, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Bird, Wallis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH County Meath