Lisa Hannigan

Lisa Margaret Hannigan (born 12 February 1981) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. She began her musical career as a member of Damien Rice's band. Since beginning her solo career in 2007 she has released two albums: Sea Sew (2008) and Passenger (2011). Hannigan's music has received award nominations both in Ireland and the USA.



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[hide]  *1 Early life and education  ==Early life and education[ edit] == Hannigan was born in Dublin but grew up in Kilcloon, County Meath, Ireland.[4]  She attended primary school at Scoil Oilibhéir Naofa[5]  in Kilcloon and secondary school at The King's Hospital in Palmerstown and enrolled at Trinity College, Dublin to study Art History.[6] ==Career[ edit] == While still in college Hannigan met Damien Rice at a concert in Dublin in early 2001.[7] [8]  Rice enlisted Hannigan to sing on his 2002 album O and his later album "9", featured in the hit "9 Crimes". She toured with Rice as part of his band during that period<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RT.C3.89_Other_Voices_2007_7-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_interview_for_her_album_.27See_Sew.27_9-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  lending vocal support and occasionally playing electric guitar, bass guitar or drums.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RT.C3.89_Other_Voices_2007_7-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Sea Sew
 * 2.2 Passenger
 * 3 Reception
 * 4 Discography
 * 5 Awards
 * 5.1 Hot Press Readers' Poll
 * 5.2 Choice Music Prize
 * 5.3 Meteor Music Awards
 * 5.4 Mercury Prize
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In 2007, Hannigan returned to Dublin and began a solo career.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RT.C3.89_Rice_.26_Hannigan_Split_8-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_interview_for_her_album_.27See_Sew.27_9-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irish_Independent_Musters_Chutzpah_3-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hannigan_shenanigans_4-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Damien_Rice:_The_world.27s_most_reluctant_pop_star_10-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  Some of Hannigan's live recordings were made available through trading networks radio shows. These recordings included: "Willy" by Joni Mitchell, "Be My Husband" by Nina Simone (from the 1965 album Pastel Blues), "Mercedes Benz" byJanis Joplin and "Love Hurts" by Roy Orbison. Hannigan also performed live with her own band, called The Daisy Okell Quartet and contributed guest vocals to the recordings of Mic Christopher, The Frames and Herbie Hancock. ===Sea Sew<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Lisa Hannigan's debut solo album, titled Sea Sew, was rehearsed in a barn in Thomastown and recorded in Dublin before being released in Ireland in September 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Champagne_moment_11-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  The lead single, "Lille", was made available as a free Internet download and other tracks were available for preview on her Myspace page.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  The sleeve featured needle-work by Hannigan.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HP_Hannigan_Confirms_Album_Track-List_13-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  Some music critics called the recording one of the best Irish albums of the year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Sea Sew received favourable reviews in the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hannigan_shenanigans_4-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  The single "Lille", released in August 2008 on Irish and American radio stations.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irish_Independent_Musters_Chutzpah_3-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  Hannigan performed atElectric Picnic 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  Hannigan was the opening act for singer-songwriter Jason Mraz on his U.S. tour in 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irish_Independent_Jason_Mraz_Music_19-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">That year, she appeared on the charity album Even Better Than the Disco Thing and performed a duet of Mick Flannery's new song "Christmas Past" with Flannery on Tony Fenton's Christmas Special onToday FM.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa.27s_Duet_with_Mick_Flannery_2-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irish_Independent_Disco_Thing_20-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]  In December 2008, she made her UK solo debut at St Johns Church in London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan.27s_DEBUT_Album_.27Sea_Sew.27_Shortlisted_For_Barclaycard_Mercury_Prize_21-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]  Hannigan signed with ATO Records in the U.S., where her album was released in February 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Sea Sew was nominated for the Choice Music Prize and Best Irish Album at the Meteor Music Awards in January 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">That year, Hannigan appeared on the American television shows Jay Leno and The Colbert Report.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hannigan_shenanigans_4-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_interview_for_her_album_.27See_Sew.27_9-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]  In 2009, Hannigan also appeared on the BBC's ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Later..._with_Jools_Holland Later... with Jools Holland], performing her song "I Don't Know".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_interview_for_her_album_.27See_Sew.27_9-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_.28Jools_Holland.29_27-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_moves_up_the_UK_charts_28-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]  Sea Sew rose in the UK charts following this appearance<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed'']  and she performed at Glastonbury 2009 music festival and went on tour later in the year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan.27s_DEBUT_Album_.27Sea_Sew.27_Shortlisted_For_Barclaycard_Mercury_Prize_21-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_moves_up_the_UK_charts_28-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irish_bands_tuning_up_for_Glastonbury_29-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Female_solo_artists_dominate_Mercury_prize_nominations_30-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30]  She performed at the nomination ceremony and she was greeted by confused journalists wondering "Lisa who?".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Champagne_moment_11-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan performed at Electric Picnic 2009<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hannigan_shenanigans_4-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Nutty_boys_set_for_Electric_Picnic_31-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Electric_Picnic_bill_unveiled_32-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32]  Later in 2009, she toured the United States with David Gray and performed solo shows in New York, Los Angeles and London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_announces_December_dates_33-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33]  She then began a tour of Ireland to finish the year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_announces_December_dates_33-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33]  Hannigan's song "Ocean and Rock" was used in a 2009 Irish video supporting same-sex marriage entitled "Sinéad's Hand".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[34]  As part of an advertisement campaign forOxfam's Make Trade Fair, Hannigan was drenched in melted chocolate and she participated in the Irish musical collective The Cake Sale with lead vocal on the track Some Surprise, which was played on the US television series Grey's Anatomy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RT.C3.89_Other_Voices_2007_7-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mercury_is_rising_for_our_sensitive_songbird_35-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Eskimo_Friends_Side_Projects_36-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[36] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Yep_Roc_Records_The_Cake_Sale_37-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan also contributed to the 2009 charity album, Sparks n' Mind, released in aid of Aware.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Springsteen.2C_Pixies_.26_Portishead_covered_for_Irish_charity_album_38-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[38]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In 2009, a broadcast of Other Voices was recorded.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39] ===Passenger<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan recorded her second album, titled Passenger, at Bryn Derwen Studios in North Wales with producer Joe Henry and engineer Ryan Freeland. The album was released in the US and Canada on 20 September 2011, and on 7 October in Ireland and the UK.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[40] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[41]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan performed at the Eurosonic Festival in 2012 when Ireland was the "Spotlight Country".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[42]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In 2013 Hannigan contributed vocals to the soundtrack for Alfonso Cuarón's film Gravity. ==Reception<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Her music has received critical praise, airplay and award nominations both in her native Ireland and the United States. In 2008, her debut album Sea Sew spawned the single "Lille", a Choice Music Prizenomination, two Meteor Music Awards nominations and a Mercury Prize nomination.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan performs using "broken-down, wheezy old instruments".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan_interview_for_her_album_.27See_Sew.27_9-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  Herbie Hancock said of her vocals, "there's so much jazz in the notes and phrases that she picks. She was singing the ninths, the elevenths of the chords...I mean some of the things sound like choices that Miles would have made." <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[43] ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Main article: Lisa Hannigan discographyFurther information: Discography of Damien Rice*Sea Sew (2008) ==Awards<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Hot Press Readers' Poll<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan has four Hot Press Readers' Poll awards. She won Best Debut Album, Best Irish Album, Best Irish Track and Best Female in 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lisa_Hannigan.27s_DEBUT_Album_.27Sea_Sew.27_Shortlisted_For_Barclaycard_Mercury_Prize_21-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21] ===Choice Music Prize<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan's debut album, Sea Sew, was nominated for the Choice Music Prize in January 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[44]
 * Passenger (2011)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan's second album, Passenger, was nominated for the Choice Music Prize in January 2012 and she also lost out to Jape that year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[45] ===Meteor Music Awards<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan and her work was nominated in the Best Irish Female and Best Irish Album categories at the Meteor Music Awards in 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-46" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[46]  She was the only solo artist nominated in more than one category at the awards. She lost to Imelda May and The Script's self-titled album respectively.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Top_accolade_for_The_Script_47-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[47] ===Mercury Prize<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Sea Sew was nominated for the Mercury Prize on 21 July 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hannigan_makes_Mercury_prize_shortlist_48-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[48] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[49] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[50]  It was Hannigan's first nomination.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hannigan was referred to as 2009's "token folk nominee" in the UK,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mercury_is_rising_for_our_sensitive_songbird_35-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  with the NME calling her a "token folkie".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mercury_Nominations_.E2.80.93_Who.27s_Been_Overlooked.3F_51-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[51]  One British journalist even claimed she was "truly obscure" and part of the "moribund sensitive singer-songwriter genre".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mercury_is_rising_for_our_sensitive_songbird_35-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  Ed Power, writing in the Irish Independent, criticised such claims, wondering if Jape (whose album Ritual beat Hannigan to the Choice Music Prize) had come close to receiving a Mercury nomination—"Or, for that matter, how many of the judges had even heard of him".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mercury_is_rising_for_our_sensitive_songbird_35-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]