Gemma Hayes
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Gemma Claire Hayes
is an Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 and member of The Cake Sale
The Cake Sale
The Cake Sale are a collective of mostly Irish musical artists including Swedish singer/songwriter Nina Persson of The Cardigans and Australian musician Nick Seymour of Crowded House....

.

Early life

One of eight children, Hayes was surrounded by music from an early age, both from any of her seven sibling
Sibling
Siblings are people who share at least one parent. A male sibling is called a brother; and a female sibling is called a sister. In most societies throughout the world, siblings usually grow up together and spend a good deal of their childhood socializing with one another...

s' bedrooms and being played by her father, a keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 in a local band
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

. By the time she left for boarding school in County Limerick
County Limerick
It is thought that humans had established themselves in the Lough Gur area of the county as early as 3000 BC, while megalithic remains found at Duntryleague date back further to 3500 BC...

, Hayes was already proficient at piano and found that the music used to counter the boredom of living in a small village. Although she enrolled at University in Dublin, Hayes soon left to concentrate on music, working part-time in a laundrette during the day and playing the city's circuit at night.

Music career

Hayes signed to the French independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

, Source Records
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 in 2001, and issued the 4.35am
4.35am
4.35am is an EP by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes. Her first official release, it came out in 2001 on the Source Records label.The track 4.35am appeared on the soundtrack for the 2006 movie flicka starring Mario Bello. Piano Song features Gemma unaccompanied on Piano. This is the first time...

EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 and the Work to a Calm
Work to a Calm
Work to a Calm is an extended player by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released in 2001.-Track listing:All songs written by Gemma Hayes.# "Tear In My Side"# "I Worked Myself Into A Calm"# "Can't Find Love"# "A New Day "...

EP before releasing her debut album, Night on my Side
Night on My Side
Night on my Side is the debut album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released in 2002 with success in the Republic of Ireland, France and the UK.The album was nominated for that year's Mercury Music Prize but lost out to Ms...

, in 2002. In 2002 she won Best Female Singer at the Hot Press Awards. The album was nominated for the 2003 Mercury Prize
Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British...

 but lost out to Ms. Dynamite
Ms. Dynamite
Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley , who performs as Ms. Dynamite, is a double BRIT Award and three time MOBO Awards winning UK garage, R&B and hip hop singer and rapper.-Biography:...

's, A Little Deeper
A Little Deeper
A Little Deeper is the platinum selling Mercury Prize-winning debut album by English R&B/hip hop singer and rapper Ms. Dynamite, released on 10 June 2002.-Track listing:#"Natural High " – 0:56#"Dy-Na-Mi-Tee" – 3:39...

. After touring Night on my Side Hayes took two years out from the music industry; "All I do know is that I didn't want to listen to music at all. I stopped listening to the radio. It was like I'd overdosed on music".

In late 2005, Hayes returned with her second album, The Roads Don't Love You
The Roads Don't Love You
The Roads Don't Love You is the second album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released in 2005. In 2006 Gemma received a nomination for Best Irish Female at the 2006 Ireland Music Awards were she also performed live and picked up the award....

, and picked up the Best Irish Female Artist award at the 2006 Meteor Ireland Music Awards
Meteor Music Awards
The Meteor Ireland Music Awards are a group of music awards in Ireland...

, while completing a small tour of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Shortly after this she left Source Records parent company EMI-Virgin as EMI-Virgin was undergoing an overhaul of artists and bands. During this time Hayes co-wrote the song "Hazy" with Adam Duritz
Adam Duritz
Adam Fredric Duritz is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. He is best known for his role as frontman and vocalist for the rock band Counting Crows, in which he is a founding member and principal composer of their catalogue of songs.Duritz has recorded solo...

.

On 14 August 2006 Hayes announced, via her MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

 profile, that she had begun work on her third album in the Black Box Studios in France, to be produced
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 by her former guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, David Odlum. Hayes posted demo
Demo (music)
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...

 versions of a few of the songs on MySpace during recording
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...

, including "Out of Our Hands", "Home", and "This Is What You Do".
Hayes' third album The Hollow of Morning
The Hollow of Morning
The Hollow of Morning is the third album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released on 2 May 2008 in the Republic of Ireland. "Out of Our Hands" was the first single from the album. The album was released in North America on 20 May 2008 on iTunes...

was independently-released on 2 May 2008 in Ireland, and debuted at number 12 in the Irish Albums Chart
Irish Albums Chart
The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...

. Following this she signed a recording contract
Recording contract
A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote...

 with the United States record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

, Second Motion
Second Motion Records
Second Motion Records is part of Second Motion Entertainment based in Carrboro, North Carolina. The Label was founded in Chapel Hill, NC by Stephen Judge, who is the former manager of the rock band Athenaeum as well as the former General Manager/A&R Director of Redeye Distribution and Yep Roc...

 where The Hollow of Morning was released in the US on 30 September 2008. Second Motion works with Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...

, Adam Franklin
Adam Franklin
Adam Franklin is a guitarist, singer and songwriter who has played in Swervedriver , Shake Appeal , Toshack Highway and currently releases records as Adam Franklin and tours with live band Bolts of Melody...

 of Swervedriver
Swervedriver
Swervedriver are an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band went on hiatus in 1998 before reforming in 2008 for a world tour, which included a performance at the high-profile Coachella Festival...

, Brian Vander Ark
Brian Vander Ark
Brian Vander Ark is an American Singer-songwriter best known as lead singer for the band The Verve Pipe. Born in Holland, Michigan, Vander Ark began playing guitar at age 8. At age 18, he was married to then girlfriend Michelle Marthens and had a son named Joshua Vander Ark. Soon after he joined...

 and others.

Whilst on her 2008 UK tour, Hayes announced that she planned to release an acoustic album by the end of 2008, thought the album has never surfaced. During this time during some promotional work and touring Hayes confirmed that she would start recording her fourth album in August 2008.

In January 2009, it was announced that Hayes had been nominated for Best Irish Female, at the 2009 Meteor Ireland Music Awards, which took place on 17 March 2009 in Dublin. She lost out to Imelda May
Imelda May
Imelda Mary Higham, Clabby , known as Imelda May, is an Irish vocalist and musician. She began her career in music at 15 and released her debut album in 2005. She also plays the bodhrán and guitar...

. On 13 February 2009 she released her new music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for the song "Home" on Myspace; the track was from her 2008 release The Hollow of Morning. On 19 February 2009 she performed at the Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

 party in Los Angeles, California
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. The annual event takes place days before the Oscars, and celebrates the best of Irish popular culture.

On 22 February 2009 it was stated on her website that her new EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Oliver
Oliver EP
Oliver is an EP by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes.This is her third EP release. In late 2008 Gemma confirmed on her myspace page that she would release an EP as part of her tour in December 2008, but due to production issues the release was delayed. On February 22, 2009 it was stated that her...

will be available for purchase on 9 March 2009. However, it was subsequently announced on Myspace on 9 March that the EP's release had been delayed. A new track called "Ghost" appeared on Myspace the same day.

On 13 March 2009 Oliver
Oliver EP
Oliver is an EP by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes.This is her third EP release. In late 2008 Gemma confirmed on her myspace page that she would release an EP as part of her tour in December 2008, but due to production issues the release was delayed. On February 22, 2009 it was stated that her...

was released on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

.

On 14 April 2009 it was announced on her Myspace blog that Hayes began to write new material for the next album.

On 3 September 2009 Gemma performed at the 2012 stage at the 2009 Århus Festival. Her set-list featured new songs Waiting for You and Shock to the System.

On 20 October 2009 Gemma confirmed through her Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 page that she was recording new material in France in the Blackbox studios.

On 19 November 2009 Gemma began a short European tour with performances in Austria, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom. During these tour dates Gemma played new songs including Tokyo, Waiting for You and Shock to the System. At her gig in Cork on 3 December, Gemma performed a cover of Kate Bush
Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...

' "Cloudbusting
Cloudbusting
12" single CD single -Charts:-External links:* * *...

".

On 22 December 2009 Gemma released her cover of "Cloudbusting" for free from her website.

In March 2010, Gemma featured on Ceol 2010 a special album in the Irish language. Gemma previously appeared on Ceol 2007. On the Ceol 2010 album Gemma's song Rith me go Crich appeared on the album alongside Bell X1
Bell X1
Bell X1 are an Irish rock band from County Kildare in Ireland. They have released five albums which received much acclaim in Ireland.. They have represented Ireland in the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, received several major award nominations and headlined several festivals in their own country...

, Kila
Kila
Kila or KILA can refer to:* Kíla, Irish folk band* Kila, Kozani, Kozani Prefecture, Greece* Kila Marr, a xenologist in the fictional Star Trek universe* Kerala Institute of Local Administration...

, The Walls
The Walls
The Walls are an Irish rock band. They were formed in 1998 by two ex-members of The Stunning.-Members:* Steve Wall* Joe Wall* Carl Harms * Rory Doyle...

.

Gemma Hayes originally stated on Irish music site Muzu TV
MUZU TV
MUZU TV is an Irish owned interactive music website featuring free music content legal video sharing website. Co-founded by Ciarán Bollard and Mark French, it was launched in Ireland and the United Kingdom on 16 July 2008. Seven million videos were played monthly and there were two million users...

 that her yet to be titled fourth album would be released in September 2010.. However, in October 2010 on Tom Dunne's radio show on Newstalk 106-108
NewsTalk 106
Newstalk is an Independent Radio station in Ireland. It is operated by News 106 Limited, a subsidiary of Denis O'Brien's Communicorp group, and broadcasts under a sound broadcasting contract with the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.The station is a "quasi-national" station as of 29 September...

, Gemma Hayes said that her new album will not be released until early 2011. In an interview with Irish music website State.ie
State (magazine)
State.ie is an Irish website and formerly a monthly music magazine, which launched in March 2008 and folded in January 2009 having published a total of nine issues...

 she confirmed that the album would be released in mid-Spring 2011 either late February or March.

Gemma Hayes has written some original music for the 2010 movie Janie Jones
Janie Jones (film)
Janie Jones is a 2010 American film by writer/director David M. Rosenthal. It stars Alessandro Nivola, Elizabeth Shue, Brittany Snow, and Abigail Breslin as the eponymous Janie Jones. The film makes extensive use of original music created by Gemma Hayes and Eef Barzelay and sung and played by...

, by writer/director David M. Rosenthal
David M. Rosenthal
David M. Rosenthal is a philosopher at the City University of New York who has made significant contributions to the philosophy of mind, particularly in the area of consciousness. He was educated at the University of Chicago and then Princeton University...

. Abigail Breslin
Abigail Breslin
Abigail Kathleen Breslin is an American teen actress. She is one of the youngest actresses ever to be nominated for an Academy Award....

 sings and plays her music. The three songs to appear in the film will include Just a Game, Fight for Me and Hurricane.

Gemma Hayes returned to live performances in autumn 2010. She launched her autumn tour in Cork City, Ireland were she performed some new tracks which included Noise, Hurricane and Beside Me.

On Thursday, 13 February 2011, Gemma Hayes confirmed on RTE Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1 is the principal radio channel of Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926...

's Today with Pat Kenny
Today with Pat Kenny
Today with Pat Kenny is a current affairs magazine broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1, presented by Pat Kenny. The programme is broadcast weekdays, at 10:00 and ends at 12:00. As of 2008, the average audience for the show was 291,000....

 that her fourth studio album
Let It Break (album)
Let It Break is the fourth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes. It was released in the Republic of Ireland on May 27, 2011....

 would be released sometime in May 2011 and that she would tour Ireland in early summer 2011. It was later confirmed on gemmahayes.com that the fourth album is due for May release with a single due mid-Spring as recording in Ireland and France neared completion.. Gemma confirmed that 'Shock to the System' will appear on the album. On 15 March 2011 Gemma confirmed on her Twitter account that a track called Noise will feature on the album.
On 10 April 2011 Gemma confirmed through her website that the new album will be released on 27 May 2011 in Ireland. The album will be called Let It Break
Let It Break (album)
Let It Break is the fourth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes. It was released in the Republic of Ireland on May 27, 2011....

.

Gemma confirmed that she has written two songs for Michael Uppendahl (director of US TV series Mad Men
Mad Men
Mad Men is an American dramatic television series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. The series premiered on Sunday evenings on the American cable network AMC and are produced by Lionsgate Television. It premiered on July 19, 2007, and completed its fourth season on October 17, 2010. Each...

, Weeds
Weeds (TV series)
Weeds is an American television comedy created by Jenji Kohan and produced by Tilted Productions in association with Lionsgate Television. The central character is Nancy Botwin , a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling marijuana to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a...

, and Becker
Becker (TV series)
Becker is an American television sitcom that ran from 1998 to 2004 on CBS. Set in the New York City borough of The Bronx, the show starred Ted Danson as John Becker, a misanthropic doctor who operates a small practice and is constantly annoyed by his patients, co-workers, friends, and practically...

) for a forthcoming film directed by him..

On 11 October 2011 the soundtrack to Janie Jones
Janie Jones
Marion Mitchell , better known by her stage name, Janie Jones, was an English singer. She became renowned for being a madame in London during the 1970s, and was jailed for her involvement in the BBC Radio One 'sex for airplay' payola scandal...

 is released in Europe and Australia. The album features three tracks written by Gemma Hayes. It also features the studio version of 'Waiting for You' which Gemma played as a promo track and on her tours throughout 2010 and 2011.

Popular culture

  • Sad Ol' Song and Chasing Dragons featured in the final episode of Season 3 of RTÉ One
    RTÉ One
    RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...

    's Raw on 13 February 2011.

  • 'Brittle Winter' a new song from Gemma Hayes will feature on ABC Family
    ABC Family
    ABC Family, stylized as abc family, is an American television network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company...

    's Pretty Little Liars
    Pretty Little Liars
    Pretty Little Liars is a series of more than 10 young adult novels by Sara Shepard, from 1981–present, which have been made into a television show . The series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader,...

    . A demo version of the new track will feature on the show.

  • 'Out Of Our Hands' taken from her 'Hollow of Morning' album featured in episode 'The Return' of season 2 of Vampire Diaries.

  • 'November' taken from her 'Oliver' EP featured on US drama series One Tree Hill
    One Tree Hill (TV series)
    One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster...

    . The song featured on episode "At the Bottom of Everything". The episode was broadcast on Monday 15 February 2010 on CW
    The CW Television Network
    The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...

    .

  • "Sad Ol Song" a track from her The Hollow of Morning
    The Hollow of Morning
    The Hollow of Morning is the third album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released on 2 May 2008 in the Republic of Ireland. "Out of Our Hands" was the first single from the album. The album was released in North America on 20 May 2008 on iTunes...

    album featured on episode 6 of RTÉ drama series RAW first broadcasted on RTÉ One
    RTÉ One
    RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...

     on Sunday 14 February 2010.

  • 'Under a Canopy' a track from her The Hollow of Morning
    The Hollow of Morning
    The Hollow of Morning is the third album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released on 2 May 2008 in the Republic of Ireland. "Out of Our Hands" was the first single from the album. The album was released in North America on 20 May 2008 on iTunes...

    album featured on episode 5 of RTÉ drama series RAW first broadcasted on RTÉ One
    RTÉ One
    RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...

     on Sunday 7 February 2010.

  • Her song Chasing Dragons was featured on Private Practice episode 301: "A Death in the Family" which first aired on ABC
    American Broadcasting Company
    The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

     on 6 October 2009.

  • Her song 'Out of Our Hands'
    Out of Our Hands
    "Out of Our Hands" is a song written by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes for her third album The Hollow of Morning. It was released digitally on 2 May 2008 as the album's first single. The single went to #6 in the official Top 40 Irish Singles chart.-Music video:No music video was shot for 'Out...

     was featured in ER
    ER (TV series)
    ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

    episode "T-Minus-6" (from Season 15) which aired on 26 February 2009 on NBC
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

    , 10 May 2009 on RTÉ One
    RTÉ One
    RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...

    ., and in the episode "Bad Moon Rising" on the CW show The Vampire Diaries
    The Vampire Diaries
    The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...

     on 23 September 2010.

  • Her song 'Two Step' was featured in a season 2 episode of the hit TV show Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...

    .

  • She was also featured in a duet with Norwegian singer Magnet
    Magnet (musician)
    Magnet is the pseudonym of Norwegian singer-songwriter Even Johansen . To date, he has released four full-length studio albums as well as several singles and EPs. Johansen draws upon many influences, including folk, pop, and electronica...

     on a Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

     cover, "Lay Lady Lay
    Lay Lady Lay
    "Lay Lady Lay" is a song written by Bob Dylan and originally released in 1969 on his Nashville Skyline album. Like many of the tracks on the album, Dylan sings the song in a low croon, rather than in the high nasal singing style associated with his earlier recordings...

    " in the 2005 feature film Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American romantic comedy action film directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. The original music score was composed by John Powell...

    .

  • Hayes was on the Ceol '07
    Ceol '07
    Ceol '07 is a 17-track double album of songs in Irish, to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge. It sees the combination of established acts such as the BellX1, Mundy and the Corrs, alongside newer talents such as Fiach and Claire Sproule....

    album, which was released on 2 March 2007, singing "Rith Mé Go Crích", an Irish language
    Irish language
    Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

     version of "Ran For Miles", which originally appeared on Night on my Side. Other Irish artists who appeared included Bell X1
    Bell X1
    Bell X1 are an Irish rock band from County Kildare in Ireland. They have released five albums which received much acclaim in Ireland.. They have represented Ireland in the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, received several major award nominations and headlined several festivals in their own country...

     and Paddy Casey
    Paddy Casey
    Patrick "Paddy" Casey is an Irish singer-songwriter from Dublin. Paddy was discovered by Sony A&R Scout Hugh Murray at the International Bar in Dublin, while performing at the singer/songwriter night hosted by Dave Murphy...

    . The track "Rith Mé Go Crích" reappeared on Ceol 2010
    Ceol 2010
    Ceol 2010 was the 2010 Seachtain na Gaeilge music album released during Seachtain na Gaeilge in March 2010. The album features songs in Irish by The Coronas, Bell X1, Gemma Hayes, Luan Parle, Mundy, the Saw Doctors, Kíla, Eddie Reader and the Swell Season. The album reached #3 in the Irish...

     which is to be released in March 2010.

  • She appeared on the cover of the June 2008 edition of State Magazine
    State (magazine)
    State.ie is an Irish website and formerly a monthly music magazine, which launched in March 2008 and folded in January 2009 having published a total of nine issues...

    .

  • Her song "4:35am" appeared in the 2006 film, Flicka
    Flicka
    -Chart performance:...


  • She duets with Julian Lennon
    Julian Lennon
    John Charles Julian Lennon is an English musician, songwriter, actor, and photographer. He is the son of John Lennon and Lennon's first wife, Cynthia Powell. Beatles manager Brian Epstein was his godfather. He has a younger half-brother, Sean Lennon. Lennon was named after his paternal...

     on "Faithful" from his album Photographic Smile.

Discography

  • Night on My Side
    Night on My Side
    Night on my Side is the debut album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released in 2002 with success in the Republic of Ireland, France and the UK.The album was nominated for that year's Mercury Music Prize but lost out to Ms...

    (2002)
  • The Roads Don't Love You
    The Roads Don't Love You
    The Roads Don't Love You is the second album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released in 2005. In 2006 Gemma received a nomination for Best Irish Female at the 2006 Ireland Music Awards were she also performed live and picked up the award....

    (2005)
  • The Hollow of Morning
    The Hollow of Morning
    The Hollow of Morning is the third album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released on 2 May 2008 in the Republic of Ireland. "Out of Our Hands" was the first single from the album. The album was released in North America on 20 May 2008 on iTunes...

    (2008)
  • Let It Break
    Let It Break (album)
    Let It Break is the fourth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes. It was released in the Republic of Ireland on May 27, 2011....

    (2011)

Awards

  • 2001 - Best Female Artist - Hot Press Awards - Winner
  • 2002 - Mercury Prize
    Mercury Prize
    The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British...

     - Nomination
  • 2003 - Irish Tatler Woman of the Year Music Award
  • 2006 - Best Irish Female Artist - Meteor Ireland Music Awards - Winner
  • 2009 - Best Irish Female Artist - Meteor Ireland Music Awards - Nomination
  • 2009 - Best Solo Female - Irish Music Television: Video Music Awards - Home (Video) - Nomination

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