Siobhan Fahey
Siobhan Fahey
Siobhan Fahey /ʃəˈvɔːnˈfɑːhi/ shə-VAWN FAH-heeis an Irish musician. She was a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later formed the Brit Award and Ivor Novello award winning musical act Shakespears Sister. Her vocal range is a light contralto...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 September 1957
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I love to sing old Motown songs to myself,or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
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They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.
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I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars,and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people,and I think it's ugly.
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There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
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I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
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Fashion goes round in circles.
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We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
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I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
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You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
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It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.