Eleanor McEvoy
Eleanor McEvoy (born 22 January 1967) is one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary singer/songwriters. McEvoy composed the song "Only A Woman's Heart", title track of A Woman's Heart, the best-selling Irish album in Irish history.
Biography
McEvoy's life as a musician began at the age of four when she began playing piano. At the age of eight she took up violin. Upon finishing school she attended Trinity College, Dublin where she studied music by day and worked in pit orchestras and music clubs by night.
McEvoy graduated from Trinity with an Honors Degree in music, and spent four months busking in New York City. In 1988, she was accepted into the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra where she spent four years before leaving to concentrate on songwriting.
She built up a following in clubs in Dublin with her three piece band, Jim Tate on bass, Noel Eccles on drums, and latterly Bill Shanley on guitar.
During a solo date in July 1992, she performed a little-known, self-penned song, "Only a Woman's Heart". Mary Black, of whose band McEvoy was a member, was in the audience and invited her to add the track to an album of Irish female artists. The album was subsequently titled A Woman's Heart and the track was released as the lead single.
Eleanor McEvoy (album)
Eleanor McEvoy is the 1993 studio album debut of Eleanor McEvoy, released on Geffen Records. International radio hits followed with the release of the two main singles "A Woman's Heart" and "Apologize." The former track had originally gained fame (in a different recording with Mary Black) as the title track for A Woman's Heart, the biggest-selling Irish album in Irish history.
McEvoy toured the USA, Europe and the Far East in support of the album and racked up international sales of over 250,000 copies. Hot Press, Ireland's premier music magazine, named her Best Solo Performer in 1992 and Best Songwriter in 1993 and placed the album amongst the top debuts of that year.
In June 2003, Eleanor McEvoy followed up the release of her award winning fourth album, Yola, with the relaunch of her debut album. The remastered album appears under the title Eleanor McEvoy 'Special Edition' on Market Square Records (MSMCD127). In its new guise it is presented with an additional four tracks, two of which although from the same recording period, have never been released before. The album contains both English- and Spanish-language versions of "Only A Woman's Heart." However, the English-language version of "Only A Woman's Heart" on the remastered album is a different mix than that found on the original 1993 Geffen release.
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ALBUMS
- I'd Rather Go Blonde released: 2010
- Love Must Be Tough released: 2008
- Out There released: 2006
- Early Hours released: 2004
- Portrait of a Songwriter released: 2003
- Yola released: 2001
- Snapshots released: 1996
- What's Following Me? released: 1996
- Eleanor McEvoy released: 1993
Out There
Released 2006- Non Smoking Single Female
- To Sweep Away a Fool
- Wrong So Wrong
- Little Look
- Vigeland’s Dream
- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
- Quote I Love You Unquote
- So Much Trouble
- Three Nights in November
- Suffer So Well
- The Way You Wear Your Troubles
- (When You) Smile
- Fields of Dublin 4
- Interlude - Iberius
- Roll Um Easy
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Boundaries Of Your Mind
by: Eleanor McEvoySave a little of your energy
Spend a little of your time with me
What is it that holds you here to me?
You must be moved by something that you see
Strains of magic in the moonlight hours
Render useless all your earthly powers
Souvenirs of childhood haunt your face
It must be that they've fallen from your grace
And the rage burns inside
Like a cage that's open wide
Empty now but once it held
The boundaries of your mind
Privacy and loneliness
They overlap sometimes, sometimes
Subtleties betray you everywhere
That's a secret you forgot to share
Like how auburn still brings out your guilty streak
And seemingly it adds to your mystique
Moody silhouettes you soon replace
With swarms of passersby that flood your space
Your superficial scars you can conceal
There are others left with wounds that will not heal
And the rage burns inside
Like a cage that's open wide
Empty now but once it held
The boundaries of your mind
Privacy and loneliness
They overlap sometimes
Empty now but once it held
The boundaries of your mind
Privacy and loneliness
They overlap sometimes
And the rage burns inside
Like a cage that's open wide
Empty now but once it held
The boundaries of your mind
Privacy and loneliness
They overlap sometimes
Save a little of your energy
Spend a little of your time with me
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