Orla Gartland
Orla Gartland ( born February 3, 1995, Dublin) is an Irish singer and songwriter. It can serve as an outstanding example of a growing number of artists who are first known mainly through the Internet and then only offline reach a rapidly growing audience on stage and studios. Over the years, Gartland posted on YouTube with minimal equipment in the home recorded cover versions of numerous songs, reaching with your YouTube channel to December 2013, over 10 million visitors.
Gartland sees their music in the tradition of folk-pop. The strongest influences they would be of Regina Spektor and Imogen Heap.
Life and career
The musical development Gart country began early. By his own admission, she plays since she was five years among other violin and Irish instruments. In addition, her parents had given her since the age of 12 guitar lessons.
With 13 Gartland posted her first YouTube video. It observes sense according to that, although they played for over a year at this time the guitar, but hardly has any vocal experience and nothing about breathing technique and the like, for example, would have known.
Produced The transition from the separate frame and then in Internet many users reach song interpretations to their presentations before live audiences began with smaller gigs. For example, was produced with Gart country song "All the little details " in a coffee shop during the ongoing operation of a video.
A kind of logical interlude were then 2012 performances Lands Gart as opening act for Ryan O'Shaughnessy as a subscriber with Britain's Got Talent as well as for the Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt in Bewley 's Cafe Theatre. Finally published Gartland on June 17, 2012 on iTunes her single " Devil on My Shoulder " and reached by a now already as headliner presented sold-out show at The Academy in Dublin # 2 on the Irish singer / songwriter charts.
The first highlight of the artistic development Orla Gart country is likely to be published on November 11, 2013 EP "Roots ", the title song from iTunes " Single of the Week " in the UK and Ireland. The " Irish Mirror" published on 24 November 2013, a full-page portrait Gart country with the message that " Roots" in the Irish album charts # 1 in the UK album charts and number 15 number 2 in the U.S. Sänger/Songwriter- Charts reached.
After these top rankings of their debut album Gartland graduated from an increasing number of appearances and interviews. Beyond the Internet, they first joined five in July 2013 completed shows on in the UK and Ireland. On November 20 2013 she appeared in The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show of the Irish broadcasting at Today FM and gave an interview. Your promotional tour for " Roots" leads Gartland 2014 by ten towns in Ireland and Great Britain.
About their artistic self-expression addition, Orla Gartland committed by grossed for which was published on November 15, 2013 by Niall Breslin in support of suicide prevention in Ireland compilation album "Simple Things" the song " Cast your stone". They also took part in a performance of " Simple Things " musician in RTÉ's program The Saturday Night Show.
Also at RTÉ, in The Saturday Night Show, presented Gartland on January 4, 2014 at the title song of their EP "Roots" before.
The Irish Daily Star chose Gartland one of the " 20 music acts to watch in 2014". In its issue dated 27 January 2014, the Irish Independent reported on Gartland as one of the " most influential young people of Ireland ".
The opinion-forming in the Irish music scene website GoldenPlec published after sold-out performances in Ireland and the UK, a long interview with Gartland and chose it as one of the best solo artists of Ireland on the " Plec Pick" 2014. On February 5, 2014 was Gartland in The John Murray Show on RTÉ Radio 1 interview and interpreted live the theme song of "Roots".
Likewise published in February 2014 The Sunday Times published an article on Gartland and reported it on their " 15-year plan continued success ."
Discography
- Devil On My Shoulder - Single ( 2012)
- Roots - EP ( 2013)
- Cast Your Stone - On compilation album " Simple Things " (2013 )