Susan McKeown
- January 9, 2024
- Irish-singer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Susan McKeown |
| Occupation | Irish Singer |
| Date Of Birth | Feb 6, 1967(1967-02-06) |
| Age | 57 |
| Birthplace | Dublin |
| Country | Ireland |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
Susan McKeown Biography
| Name | Susan McKeown |
| Birthday | Feb 6 |
| Birth Year | 1967 |
| Place Of Birth | Dublin |
| Birth Country | Ireland |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Susan McKeown is one of the most popular and richest Irish-Singer who was born on February 6, 1967 in Dublin, Ireland. Susan McKeown was born on February 6, 1967 , to Jane Ann (Jeannie) McKeown in Terenure, Dublin, Ireland. She was heavily influenced by her mother, who was an music composer and organist, who passed away in 1982. Susan was a student at an institution called the Municipal College of Music, Chatham Row, Dublin – which is now part of Dublin Institute of Technology (the Dublin Institute of Technology) at the age of a teenager, before deciding to leave a career in opera singing folk music and rock. Along with John Doyle, McKeown formed The Chanting House in 1989. The group was mainly performing as duo, they toured Europe together with Donogh Hennessy as well as other musicians, performing original songs as well as traditional songs. They released a cassette album titled ‘The Chanting House in the year 1990.
In 1997, Johnny was invited by Susan to sing on the album, as well as the PBS Television Special “The The Soul of Christmas’ featuring Thomas Moore. It was during the production of the program the show’s producer McKeown recommended to Cathie Ryan, and Robin Spielberg the idea of making an album of music related to motherhood. The result was The Mother Album (1999).
In the late 90s Susan and Johnny formed a duo and started an annual winter tour of music and song from the Scots and Irish traditions, featuring work and celebration songs related to the winter season. This resulted in their producing the album A Winter Talisman in 2001 with guitarist Aidan Brennan.
On December 19, 2003 Susan joined the klezmer band The Klezmatics onstage at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan in a concert of songs they had composed to lyrics by Woody Guthrie. She has toured and appeared with The Klezmatics often since then, performing in Europe and across the U.S., including in Carnegie Hall in New York City and Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Together they recorded Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (2004) and Wonder Wheel (2006) which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album.
In the year 1992, Scots fiddler Johnny Cunningham asked Susan to sing in the songs he was creating for the coming New York theatre company Mabou Mines production of “Peter and Wendy. He wrote the other songs to suit Susan’s singing voice. They collaborated in the production for several years, with performances in The Public Theatre, New Victory Theatre, Spoleto Festival, Berkeley Rep., UCLA Geffen Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival.
Susan McKeown Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Irish-Singer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Susan McKeown is one of the richest Irish Singer from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Susan McKeown 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Susan McKeown (born February 6 1967) is a Irish folk performer, songwriter producer, arranger and arranger.
After graduating at University College Dublin McKeown was given a scholarship to go to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan and, in the year 1990, receiving an award of the Arts Council of Ireland, she moved into New York City. Doyle was next and they soon joined the forces of Seamus Egan as well as Eileen Ivers, with whom they recorded a live tape along with one single, “If I Were You” that they added to their album Straight Outta Ireland in 1993.
McKeown began producing with the albums Lowlands (2000 Green Linnet) and Sweet Liberty (2004 World Village/Harmonia Mundi). Probably most successful among her traditional song releases, the latter earning a BBC Folk Music Award nomination for her setting of an English gypsy song with a mariachi band. Her second release for Harmonia Mundi’s World Village imprint was Blackthorn (2006).
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In November 2012 she released Belong, her third album of original song.
Facts & Trivia
Susan Ranked on the list of most popular Irish-Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Susan McKeown celebrates birthday on February 6 of every year.
With Chris Cunningham, Michelle Kinney, Lindsey Horner and Joe Trump, as “Susan McKeown and the Chanting House” Susan performed at clubs such as Sin-é, Fez, The Bottom Line and the Bowery Ballroom, and recorded a cassette album – Snakes – in 1993. But it was the release of Bones in 1995 – an album of original songs with her take on a centuries-old keen (caoineadh) and an arrangement of Robert Burns’ “Westlin’ Winds”, later recorded by Fairport Convention – that earned her a reputation as a singer-songwriter and launched her solo touring and recording career. In 1997 she recorded three albums: her own Bushes & Briars (Alula); Peter & Wendy, the soundtrack to the Obie Award- winning Mabou Mines theatrical production of the same name, which was composed by Johnny Cunningham; and Through the Bitter Frost & Snow, a collaboration with bassist Lindsey Horner. At this time, she began to divide her work into albums of traditional music (Bushes and Briars, 1998) and singer-songwriter albums (Bones, 1995; Prophecy, 2002).