Alison O’Donnell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alison O'Donnell
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Oct 5, 1952(1952-10-05)
Age	72
Birthplace	Motherwell
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Libra

Alison O'Donnell Biography

Alison O'Donnell is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on October 5, 1952 in Motherwell, Scotland, United Kingdom. Alison O’Donnell, a musician from Ireland who was born 5 October 1952, is a solo singer and songwriter. Alison Bools was born in Dublin to an English mother, and an Irish father. She was raised in Dalkey and received her education at Holy Child Killiney.

O’Donnell and Williams moved to Johannesburg, South Africa after the tragic and untimely demise of Mellow Candle. Simonds and Murray eventually went to New York. Boylan was a member of The Gary Moore Band. They formed a band with Jimmy Faulkner, a legendary guitarist, and played in Belgian bars for a year before they left. They quit the project after becoming disillusioned with their hard drug use onstage. The couple arrived in South Africa in 1976, two years after they had arrived. They participated in Palet in Afrikaans poetry and music programming for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. The producer was forced to resign after the show was deemed too highbrow and radical. In 1977, they formed the traditional band Flibbertigibbet with Barrie Glenn (and Jo Dudding), whom they met at Mangles Folk Club. They recorded Whistling Jigs to the Moon, their first vinyl album, in South Africa in 1978. The band made numerous appearances on SATV. This recording was reissued in 1996 after being appreciated more.

Between 1986 and 1996 O’Donnell worked in public sector administration in London. At this time interest in Mellow Candle was gathering pace. The pre- drums demos were released as The Virgin Prophet and the re-mastered Swaddling Songs has been reissued on vinyl and CD regularly since then. In 2006 a Mojo magazine poll Beyond Folk the group was listed in the top 50 genre-bending folk classics of the last forty years. The band features in a number of Top Ten lists in Galactic Ramble (a complete study of 60s and 70s music in the UK). Tracks are regularly licensed out to compilations, amongst them, O’Donnell’s Messenger Birds for The Story of British Folk (a double CD collection covering British folk music from the early 60s to modern day contemporaries), the co-written Sheep Season on Early Morning Hush, Notes from the Folk Underground 1969–1976, and Heaven Heath on Legends of Ireland. In 2007 an original vinyl copy of Swaddling Songs sold to a Canadian eBay bidder for $2,650.

O’Donnell developed an interest in Genealogy in 1996, working extensively on her family tree. This led to an appearance in the BBC Four documentary series Family Ties (a precursor to Who Do You Think You Are?) in 2004. The programme focused on her grandmother Nina, a singer who, long after her death, was revealed to be a secret bigamist with another family living in Scotland (the two branches of the family are now in contact). O’Donnell’s musical heritage hails from her English maternal granny, Irish great grandfather Peter, and her grandfather P.S.G. O’Donnell and his two brothers Rudolph Peter and Bertram Walton, military musicians with distinguished careers with the Royal Marines Band Service during the first half of the twentieth century. O’Donnell is an animal-lover, particularly of cats and dogs. She lives in Dublin.

O’Donnell wed Dave Williams in Dublin in January 1972 and Ian Brower, Johannesburg in January 1986. Kate Brower was born in London in 1988. Since 1980, O’Donnell worked as O’Donnell’s maiden name.

Alison O'Donnell Net Worth

Alison O'Donnell is one of the richest Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alison O'Donnell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

O’Donnell was raised in Killiney and Dalkey in south County Dublin. She had a daily view at Dalkey Island, which would inspire her songwriting in her teens and 20s. Before she was 11, ballet and other sports were her interests. Music became her passion at eleven. When she chose Cecilia to be her Confirmation name, Saint Cecilia being the patron saint of musicians, it was a sign of her commitment. She co-founded Mellow Candle, a progressive folk rock band with her school friends Clodagh and Maria Simonds at the age of 11. In 1968, they released Feeling High, their first single on SNB Records (Simon Napier-Bell).

O’Donnell left school to attend Dun Laoghaire Art College (now Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology). She briefly joined Blue Tint, a cover band, and met Dave Williams, her guitarist, while she was at Trinity College, Dublin. After this, O’Donnell took a course in secretarial work and was employed until Mellow Candle was fully reformed. Between 1969 and 1973, the band lived and worked in Ireland as well as England under the management of Ted Carroll, Thin Lizzy’s manager. O’Donnell and Williams celebrated their wedding night at Thin Lizzy’s National Stadium in Dublin. Bob Geldof and Luke Kelly, as well as Clannad members, were early spectators at Irish concert. Many members of the group also participated in house sessions alongside Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine, and pioneering traditional musicians. In 1972, the band released Swaddling Songs, their cult album on Decca Records’s Deram subsidiary.

After the break-up of Flibbertigibbet in 1979 O’Donnell worked as a session singer for singer-songwriters and advertising agency recordings, toured in the musical I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road produced by Des and Dawn Lindberg, and performed in a series of satirical revues in 1980/81 with South African actors and musicians: Tortue Revues I and II in Rockey Street’s famed 80s clubs, and Fool Marks and Commit No Nuisance at the Chelsea Hotel Hillbrow with music by David Marks (songwriter, producer and archivist), who had earlier given Flibbertigibbet their first run at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg. In the early to mid-80s O’Donnell appeared briefly with jazz group Theta and an early incarnation of the popular rock group Ella Mental at Sun City. She recorded an album with writer/producer Terry Dempsey’s band, Plastik Mak, which included his hit song Daydreamer and performed in after- show cabaret with musician/actress Michelle Maxwell and on the folk club stage with blues/folk guitarist Mike Dickman. She also appeared regularly with singer-songwriters Colin Shamley and Roger Lucey, guesting on their respective albums. During this period she assisted in running the door for Club Le Chaim, which featured musicians opposed to the Apartheid regime. In the year before she departed Johannesburg for London in early 1986, O’Donnell co-wrote the repertoire and performed with contemporary jazz group Earthlings at night. By day she worked for South African Associated Newspapers, which at that time included The Rand Daily Mail and The Sunday Times.

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O’Donnell is known for her enthusiastic and varied collaborations. Recent work includes Bajik, a live band playing new and recent O’Donnell material formed in 2010, headlining at their maiden concert in Spain at the Datura Folk Festival, a contribution to the album Towards Abstraction by Big Dwarf, a contemporary electronic psychedelic band and a joint album with Head South By Weaving, The Execution of Frederick Baker, both in 2013. Between 2014 and 2015 there has also been a CD and vinyl release with Firefay, British folk noir group.

Facts & Trivia

Alison Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Alison O'Donnell celebrates birthday on October 5 of every year.

How many children does Alison O'Donnell have?

Personal life. O’Donnell’s partner is Scottish playwright D.C. Jackson; they have two children.

Why did Tosh leave Shetland?

Filming for the BBC series was put on hold and suffered delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. During the two-year break, the actress who plays Tosh welcomed her second child. When the cast was finally able to return to the set, Alison admitted to struggling to balance filming with breastfeeding her newborn baby.

When was Alison Odonnell born?

O’Donnell was born in the early 1980s and grew up in Motherwell with two older sisters.

Who played Tosh in Shetland?

Alison O’Donnell is an actress appearing in a main role as Alison “Tosh” McIntosh in the BBC One adaptation of Ann Cleeves’s Shetland. Besides appearing in Shetland, O’Donnell has appeared in the TV Series Holby City and Feel the Force.

Who is Tosh pregnant by in Shetland?

The one bright spot at the end of the season finale was the reveal that DI Jimmy Perez’s loyal, whip-smart second-in-command, Tosh, is pregnant with her first child.