Tanya Donelly

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tanya Donelly
Occupation	Singer-Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Jul 14, 1966(1966-07-14)
Age	58
Birthplace	Newport
Country	United States
Birth City	Rhode Island
Horoscope	Cancer

Tanya Donelly Biography

Tanya Donelly is one of the most popular and richest Singer- Songwriter who was born on July 14, 1966 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Tanya Donelly (born July 14 in 1967) was an award-winning Grammy nominated American songwriter, singer and guitarist from New England who co-founded Throwing Muses along with their stepsister Kristin Hersh. Donelly joined forces to form the alternative rock group The Breeders (alongside Pixies bassist Kim Deal) in 1989 and then left to form her own group Belly at the end of 1991. At the end of the 1990s she was settling into her own recording career, collaborating mainly with musicians who were part of Boston. Boston musical scene.

Donelly is well-known by the Grammy nominated work during the mid-1990s, as lead singer and songwriter of Belly and the Belly, which was an international radio and television smash with her song “Feed the Tree”. Belly recorded her music on Sire/Reprise Records and 4AD Records Her solo albums have been released through Warner Bros. Records and 4AD.

The Real Ramona, Throwing Muses’ last album with Donelly, which included her “Not Too Soon” and “Honeychain” originals, was released in 1991. In May 1991, Deal and Donelly were asked to contribute vocals to This Mortal Coil’s Blood album on 4AD, with a cover of Chris Bell’s “You and Your Sister,” a month before Donelly officially left Throwing Muses.

In 1993 Belly released the Star LP, with Gail Greenwood soon replacing Fred Abong on bass after the release for touring. The album soon peaked at number two on the United Kingdom music charts and featured a single and music video, “Feed the Tree”, that quickly was rated number one on the Modern Rock Tracks Survey. The album scored commercial chart successes and was certified as a gold record in 1994 by the RIAA. The band was also nominated for two Grammy Awards (Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Performance) and won two Boston Music Awards the same year.

In in 1990 Donelly began working on a side project known as The Breeders with Kim Deal of Pixies The group is based in Boston that had performed at shows with Throwing Muses in the 1980s. The album’s vocals and songwriting duties were focused around Deal. It was released by the group Pod with Donelly in 1990.

Tanya Donelly Net Worth

Tanya Donelly is one of the richest Singer-Songwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tanya Donelly 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Through in the 80s Donelly played the role of lead guitarist as well as a secondary singer/songwriter, in addition to the work of the leader of Throwing Muses, Hersh. The group relocated to Rhode Island to Boston around 1986, and then became the first American group to the famous British label 4AD. The band’s songs mostly featured complex patterns and offbeat chords, Donelly has said she later accepted that her songs were more straightforward and were composed with “more traditional songwriting sensibilities” than Hersh’s. This was evident in the end of the two years that she joined the band. A few of her tracks that were released during this time period comprise “Green”, “Reel,” “Pools in Eyes”, “The River”, “Giant”, “Dragonhead”, “Honeychain”, “Not Too Soon” and “Angel”. Hersh’s best-known Muses songs such as “Fish”, “Dizzy”, “Counting Backwards” and the majority songs from “The Real Ramona” LP generally featured Donelly’s distinctive guitar playing and heavy background vocals. inner vocals, with a variety of lyrics , pop vocal harmony along with melodic hooks.

Donelly claims to have had a meeting with Kristin Hersh when she was in school at age eight. They quickly became close friends. Donelly’s father later got married to Hersh’s mother following their divorce in the late 1980s. When she was just 12 years older, Donelly and her mother were hurt in a devastating car crash that caused her to consider in the very first moment about her religious beliefs and notions about how “God” was. Her previous life was agnostic and after the accident, a friend of the family brought Donelly to Hindu tradition of Krishna as she was immersed for a short period.

In December 1991, Donelly formed Belly as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, with Thomas Gorman on lead guitar, Chris Gorman on drums, and Fred Abong (previously with Throwing Muses) on bass guitar. This group would become her primary creative focus for the next few years, as Donelly’s participation in The Breeders faded after the 1992 release of the Safari EP.

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After the 1997 dual solo release of Pretty Deep with two different b-sides, she toured North America with Fisher, Throwing Muses’ drummer Dave Narcizo, Gilbert, and keyboardist Elizabeth Steen. She soon released her solo debut LP Lovesongs for Underdogs, recorded with Gilbert, Fisher, Jones, Narcizo, and engineer Wally Gagel on assorted instruments. In April 1999, Donelly and her husband welcomed a daughter, Grace Bee Fisher.

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She continued to record and release symbol-laden, alternative folk-pop solo EPs and full-length LPs on 4AD in 2001, 2002, and 2004. Belly’s Sweet Ride: The Best of Belly retrospective was also released in 2002.