Ryann Donnelly

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Ryann Donnelly

| background = solo_singer

| image = Ryann Donnelly.jpg

| image_size =

| genre = Punk, Shock rock, Pop music

| label = The Control Group, The Lonely Hearts Singles Club

| associated_acts = Schoolyard Heroes, Blood Cells, Weekend, Aiden, The Fall Of Troy

}}

Ryann Donnelly was born in Olympia, Washington. With friends from high school Jonah Bergman and Steve Bonnell, Ryann formed the band Schoolyard Heroes. Their debut album was The Funeral Sciences, and their second album, Fantastic Wounds, was a cult hit. In 2007 Schoolyard Heroes released Abominations, for which two music videos were made.{{cite web|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-09-12/music/schoolyard-heroes-bleed-to-the-brink-of-stardom.php/|title=Schoolyard Heroes Bleed to the Brink of Stardom |author= Hannah Levin|publisher=Seattle Weekly|date=2007-10-12|accessdate=2011-04-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813052931/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-09-12/music/schoolyard-heroes-bleed-to-the-brink-of-stardom.php/|archivedate=13 August 2012}} Abominations received generally positive reviews from music critics.{{cite web|url=http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=265146|title=Schoolyard Heroes - Abominations |author=Blake Solomon|publisher=AbsolutePunk.net|date=2007-09-10|accessdate=2011-04-01}}{{cite web|url=http://threeimaginarygirls.com/recordreview/2007oct/schoolyard_heroes/abominations|title=Abominations - Schoolyard Heroes|publisher=Three Imaginary Girls|date=2007-09-13|accessdate=2011-04-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717052516/http://threeimaginarygirls.com/recordreview/2007oct/schoolyard_heroes/abominations|archivedate=2011-07-17}} The band announced their break-up on November 20, 2009.{{cite web|url=http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2009/11/20/ripsyh|title=R/I/P/S/Y/H|author=Megan Seling|publisher=The Stranger|date=2009-11-20|accessdate=2009-11-21}}

Ryann started a similar band, Blood Cells, with Jonah Bergman and two new members in early 2010.{{cite web|url=http://seattlepeach.blogspot.com/2010/04/post-punk-pop-princess-peach-ryann.html|title=Post-Punk Pop Princess (&Total Peach): Ryann Donnelly|publisher=Seattle Peach|date=2010-04-11|accessdate=2009-11-21}}{{Cite web|url= http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=6196677&blogId=524144740|archive-url= https://archive.today/20120711053953/http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=6196677&blogId=524144740|url-status= dead|archive-date= 11 July 2012|title=New Band: BLOOD CELLS - SCHOOLYARD HEROES's MySpace Blog |work=Myspace|accessdate=6 July 2010}} After only a few shows together, Ryann left the band and moved to New York, where she started producing pop music through her own label The Lonely Hearts Singles Club. Ryann played similar pop music with Mark Gajadhar, drummer of The Blood Brothers, as the duo Weekend.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2010/05/schoolyards_ryann_donnelly_spl.php|title=Schoolyard's Ryann Donnelly Splits With Blood Cells, Headed to Grad School in New York |author=Chris Kornelis |publisher=Seattle Weekly|date=2010-05-17|accessdate=2011-04-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616051448/http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2010/05/schoolyards_ryann_donnelly_spl.php|archivedate=16 June 2012}}

Ryann currently lives in London, where she completed a Ph.D. at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has recently been performing in gallery settings, providing a live soundtrack for audio visual installations. She released an edited version of her Ph.D. thesis called "Justify My Love: Sex, Subversion, and Music Video" in April 2019.

Musically, Ryann has expressed influences from singers such as Courtney Love and Madonna.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2010/06/qa_ryann_donnelly_talks_about.phpl|title=Q&A: Ryann Donnelly Talks About Leaving Seattle |author=Paige Richmond |publisher=Seattle Weekly|date=2010-06-26|accessdate=2011-04-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208002342/http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2010/06/qa_ryann_donnelly_talks_about.php|archivedate=8 December 2010}}