Sinéad Lohan
{{short description|Irish singer and songwriter (born 1971)}}
{{for|the tennis player|Sinéad Lohan (tennis)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Sinéad Lohan
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| birth_date = 1971
| birth_place = Cork, Ireland
| instrument = Vocals, guitar
| years_active = 1991–present
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Sinéad Lohan (born 1971){{cite web|last1=Jackson|first1=Joe|title=If my thoughts-my dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine|url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/interviews/If-my-thoughtsmy-dreams-could-be-seen-theyd-probably-put-my-head-in-a-guillotine/454326.html|website=Hot Press|access-date=5 May 2017}} is an Irish singer and songwriter. A native of Cork, her song "Sailing By" appeared on the compilation A Woman's Heart 2.{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1g0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82|access-date=13 September 2014|date=1995-09-09|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=82}}{{cite book|last=Mathieson|first=Kenny|title=Celtic Music|url=https://archive.org/details/celticmusic00kenn|url-access=registration|access-date=13 September 2014|year=2001|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=9780879306236|pages=[https://archive.org/details/celticmusic00kenn/page/15 15]–}}
Music career
In 1991 Lohan began playing regular gigs at The Lobby, a music venue in Cork, and soon thereafter began recording her first album, Who Do You Think I Am, produced by Declan Sinnott.{{cite news|last1=Williamson|first1=Nigel|title=Happy Chick|agency=The Times (London)|date=8 August 1998|pages=metro 10}} She has released two albums, Who Do You Think I Am in 1995, which scored several radio hits in Ireland, and No Mermaid in 1998, which has been rated 4/5 stars at AllMusic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-mermaid-mw0000599846|title=No Mermaid - Sinéad Lohan | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic}} No Mermaid was released by Interscope Records after a bidding war between several major labels.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sin%C3%A9ad-lohan-mn0000047092/biography|title=Sinéad Lohan | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}} In 1997, she toured as support to The Blue Nile. In 1998, she performed with Lilith Fair for three dates.{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bw4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18|access-date=13 September 2014|date=1998-06-06|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=18–}}{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9|access-date=13 September 2014|date=1998-08-22|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=9}}{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Dave|title=Alternative Rock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&pg=PA126|access-date=13 September 2014|year=2000|publisher=Miller Freeman Books|isbn=9780879306076|pages=126–}}
Her music has been described as having a "folky feel" and her persona "by turns reflective, poetic and wistful."{{cite book|last=Smyth|first=Gerry|title=Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music|url=https://archive.org/details/noisyislandshort00smyt|url-access=registration|access-date=13 September 2014|year=2005|publisher=Cork University Press|isbn=9781859183878}} She was one of the "most commercially successful artists" in Ireland in the 1990s.{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgwKAQAAMAAJ|access-date=13 September 2014|date=2006-11-20|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=9780195313734}} Her lyrics have been inspired by Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll and have "intense, colorful imagery"{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bw4EAAAAMBAJ|access-date=13 September 2014|date=1998-06-06|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=}} while her stage performance at a concert in Los Angeles was described as "confident and luminous on stage, but not quite commanding."{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-31-ca-37757-story.html|title=Lohan, 'No Mermaid' Mixes Pop With Irish Traditions|author=Natalie Nichols|date=31 October 1998|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=13 September 2014}} The song "No Mermaid" was used in the movie Message in a Bottle. Lohan did a tour of Ireland with Joan Baez who later recorded Lohan's songs "No Mermaid" and "Who Do You Think I Am".{{cite book|last=Tawa|first=Nicholas E.|title=Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century : Styles and Singers and what They Said about America|url=https://archive.org/details/supremelyamerica0000tawa|url-access=registration|access-date=13 September 2014|date=2005-01-01|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810852952|pages=[https://archive.org/details/supremelyamerica0000tawa/page/166 166]–}} The Canadian group Shaye recorded "No Mermaid" on their album The Bridge. The progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek covered her song "Out Of The Woods" (also from the album No Mermaid) on their Nickel Creek album (2000). The song "What Can Never Be" was used in an episode of Dawson's Creek called "Northern Lights".
In October 1999, her song "Everything Around Me Is Changing" appeared on the soundtrack for the film Anywhere But Here.{{cite web|title=Sinéad Lohan Discography|url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~riterman/sineadlohan.htm|website=Homepage.eircom.net|access-date=19 January 2018}} In 2004, Lohan began work on her third album with Malcolm Burn, the producer of No Mermaid; by 2007, the work was complete.{{cite web|title=Sinead Lohan...Where Is She Now...|url=https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2056791591|website=Boards.Ie|access-date=27 Apr 2018}} However, the album was never released.{{cite news|last1=Courtney|first1=Kevin|title=Then & Now: Sinead Lohan, Singer|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2.659/then-now-1.577201|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=27 Apr 2018}}
Throughout most of her career, Lohan wore her hair in colorful cornrows, which took six hours to braid.{{cite news|last1=Pullen|first1=Doug|title=Singer Sinéad Lohan Delves Deep for Lyrics that Have Meaning|agency=Flint Journal|date=October 13, 1998|page=B5}}
Personal life
With her partner, John, Lohan gave birth to a son in March 1999, after touring through her eighth month.{{cite news|last1=Gallagher|first1=Jim|title=Lock at Me Now|agency=People, The|date=13 February 2000|page=34}} She gave birth to her second child, a daughter, in January 2001.{{Cite web|url=http://sineadlohan.com/new.html|title=Sinead Lohan Web Pages-What's New|date=20 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020041521/http://sineadlohan.com/new.html|archive-date=20 October 2007}}
Discography
= Albums =
== Studio albums ==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:17em;"| Title
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:17em;"| Album details ! scope="col" colspan="10"| Peak chart positions |
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| scope="col" style="width:10em;font-size:100%;"|IRE |
| scope="row"| Who Do You Think I Am
| | 8 |
| scope="row"| No Mermaid
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| ? |
| colspan="12" style="font-size:90%;"|"—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart. |
= Singles =
- Bee In The Bottle (1995)
- If I Go (1995)
- To Ramona (1996, IRE #9)
- Whatever It Takes (1998, IRE #16)
- No Mermaid (1998)
- Whether Or Not (2000)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071021081606/http://sineadlohan.com/index.html Official website]
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Category:Irish women singer-songwriters
Category:Irish singer-songwriters